Steve Rabin is an American

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, college instructor, and

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who specializes in the field of video game artificial intelligence. He is best known as the chief editor of the ''AI Game Programming Wisdom'' series of books and as an author in the ''Game Programming Gems'' series of books. Rabin is currently a principal software engineer at Nintendo of America and an instructor at both the DigiPen Institute of Technology and the University of Washington Extension.

''AI Game Programming Wisdom'' series

Rabin has had a significant impact on the field of

game AI In video games, artificial intelligence (AI) is used to generate responsive, adaptive or intelligent behaviors primarily in non-playable characters (NPCs) similar to human-like intelligence. Artificial intelligence has been an integral part ...

by driving the ''AI Game Programming Wisdom'' series. With 246 articles from industry experts contained in the four volumes, this source of information on techniques and algorithms from commercial games has dwarfed other sources of

information, such as the

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which typically features fewer than half a dozen

presentations each year. As such, this has allowed implementation details about a great deal of groundbreaking AI to be widely known, such as empathy learning in ''Black & White'' by Richard Evans,

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in ''

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'' by Jeff Orkin, and agent reputation systems in

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by Adam Russell. By leading the effort to publish commercial

techniques, Rabin has become a top figure in the field of

Game credits

* '' HyperBlade'' (1996), AI programmer * '' Microsoft Baseball 3D 1998 Edition'' (1998), AI programmer * '' Dungeon Siege'' (2002), AI programmer

References

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