Peter Nordin (9 August 1965 – 12 October 2020)
Studies and early career
Peter Nordin was born in 1965 in
Helsingborg but moved to
Gothenburg in 1967, where he was raised. He began studies at Chalmers University of Technology in 1984 and completed the M.S. in
computer science and engineering in 1988 and studied economics. He then worked as a knowledge engineer for artificial intelligence (AI) company, Infologics AB, focusing on research and development of knowledge-based systems and
complex system configuration.
Nordin began his research while at Infologics AB, Sweden. His work led to several European research projects (ESPRIT)[ Lri.fr ] He began his research in Genetic Programming (GP) in 1992.[ Flickr.com, Google.se ] In 1993, he started Dacapo AB,[ Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Google.se , Lri.fr ] and demonstrated that GP can be used for real-time, on-line training and Control system of robotics.
In 1998, he co-authored a textbook on genetic programming.[ Genetic Programming: An Introduction, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Peter Nordin, Robert E. Keller, and Frank D. Frandone, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. (1998). Bokrecension.se ]
Peter Nordin created a search engine company in 1999, VILL AB[ Archive.org, Archive.org, Nyteknik.se , Archive.org, Internetbrus.com ] (with global search engine wannasee.com) as well as another AI-company, Tific AB[http://8SAIS/www.tific.com] for automated support, and received the year's Sten Gustafsson prize for entrepreneuring, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Robots and commercialization of AI
During 1998–2003, he was an associate professor at Chalmers’ complex adaptive systems (CAS).
[ University of Gothenburg , Archive.org] For a short period he led an international master's degree program in CAS, which he co-founded.
He led the master's program and supervised construction of GP-based adaptive physical robots.
[ Chalmers.se , Chalmers.se, Facebook.com] During this time, he also started Chalmers's Humanoid Project
resulted in Sweden's first full-scale
; Elvis, Elvina, and Priscilla, which currently reside in Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology.
Robots from the Humanoid Project participated in "RoboCup" soccer matches for humanoid robots
[ BBC – Robots train for World Cup(RoboCup) in Japan in 2002. , Nyteknik.se(RoboCup) in Japan in 2002. ][ Robocup.org , Lri.fr ] He also founded the first European company for humanoid technology: the Estonian company European Humanoids OY.
[ Europeanhumanoids.com ] Several of Nordin's students have created their own humanoid projects, such as Davide Faconti and the REEM-B robot
and Almir Heralic with HR2.
Much of this earlier work focused on evolutionary robotic
training methods for:
problem solving, sound and
image processing,
perception and advanced
non-linear low-level control. Robots have also learned to walk on two legs without having foreknowledge by simulating the behaviour.
[ An Evolutionary Architecture for a Humanoid Robot ] The robot Elvis,
attracted some media interest internationally.
The world's first flying "flapping" adaptive
ornithopter robot
appeared in TV and other media. The popular science book; "
Humanoider: Självlärande robotar och artificiell intelligens”,
was one result of this public interest.
During his time at Chalmers, he started another ten spin-off companies based on his research.
Nordin was seen in the public debate on treatment of gifted children and is an advisor for the Mensa International Process, both he and his wife were active members of Mensa International.
He lived with wife Carina and 6 children outside Gothenburg in Askim.
Career summary, research
Peter Nordin had a PhD in Computer Science at University of Dortmund (1997) and a degree in computer science and engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in
Gothenburg, Sweden (1988). His later research included commercial evolutionary robotics software
and software for a complete cognitive system for robots.
[ RoboBusiness: Robots that Dream of Being Better , Archibe.org, Università degli Studi di Parma , Archive.org] His earlier research included
Evolutionary software architecture for robotics,
the invention of evolutionary induction of mathematical proofs
[ Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique ] and of binary machine language,
speech and vision recognition,
and linear genetic programming for internet search.
[ Nationalencyklopedin , Google.se , Springerlink.com] He researched analysis of genetic programming through complexity theory.
Peter Nordin was the inventor of the ALLAN-method
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