President, CEO, and Chief Scientist
Dr. Michael van Lent, Chief Scientist, leads research and development of artificial intelligence for training and serious games, transitioning research into engineered solutions. Dr. van Lent received a PhD at the University of Michigan in 2000. Prior to receiving his PhD, he worked at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He joined the Institute for Creative Technologies in 2001, where he became the Associate Director for Games Research and a Research Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at USC. Dr. van Lent has participated the design and development of many immersive training applications including Full Spectrum Warrior, Full Spectrum Command, the Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System (JFETS), and ELECT BiLAT. He serves on various editorial boards and edits IEEE Computer's Entertainment Computing Column.
Wray, R., van Lent, M., Beard, J. and Brobst, P., (2005) "The design space of control options for ais in computer games," Proceedings of the IJCAI 2005 Workshop on Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in Computer Games, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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