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Mark Stephen Meadows is an American author, entrepreneur, and artist. He is the inventor of several US patents relating to artificial intelligence and avatars, and he lectures internationally on this work.〔(Avatars As Self-Portraits ), Mediamatic Lecture, Amsterdam, 2008.〕〔(Emotional User Interface and NPCs ), Game Developers Conference, Los Angeles, 2007.〕〔(Avatars and AI ), SXSW Lecture, Austin, 2007.〕〔(Artificial Intelligence and World Travel ), XMedia Lecture, Singapore, 2006.〕〔(Interactive Narrative ), AFTRS Lecture, Sydney, 2005.〕 In addition to developing software, Meadows is known for his hitchhiking adventures, specifically for visiting Baghdad in 2003, and his interviews with terrorists in Sri Lanka. He holds a USCG captain's license. ==Career== Meadows is founder of BOTanic, and co-founder of Geppetto Avatars, companies that provide conversational characters. The ACTR platform is a scalable system that allows avatars to handle routine, repetitive tasks, engage in conversation, and listen to conversants. Meadows initially invented the system as a means of developing interactive portraits. Meadows is a thought leader in the robotics field, frequently speaking about ethics, the future of social robots, and contextual conversation through technology. In 1993 Meadows helped design WELL.com, the world’s third dot-com, and also helped develop the first open-protocol 3D multi-user environment in 1995.〔Early virtual world work; article: "How To Build A Metaverse" (New Scientist ), 14 October 1995〕 He worked as researcher and artist at Xerox-PARC, as Creative Director for a Stanford Research Institute venture, and as creative director and co-founder of a VR and Internet company, which he co-founded, named Construct. In 2001 he opened a gallery in Paris where he sold his paintings for two years before spending time in the Waag Society in Amsterdam, the Netherlands as a researcher. In 2005 he founded HeadCase Humanufacturing, and in 2012 he founded Geppetto Labs,〔(Geppetto Labs: Building natural language and conversational character systems )〕 both companies dedicated to artificial intelligence and avatars. Since 1987, Meadows has been selling his artwork in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. He has received awards from Ars Electronica,〔"Difference Engine #3" awarded to Construct. (Ars Electronica, Golden Nica ), Prix 1999, Interactive Art category.''www.aec.at''〕 and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, among others. He has founded three companies and published five books, including two on robotics and the cultural implications of technology. Meadows is also a regular contributor to robotics publications 〔"Robohub | News, Views and Everything Robotic." Robohub. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Aug. 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Stephen Meadows」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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