One man cannot do everything! Try telling that to our latest addition to this year’s Pragyan! Be it computer science, entrepreneurship,  writing, artificial intelligence, automatic programming,  machine learning or evolutionary robotics; you name it and he would say ‘‘I've had a go at it!’’. Gear up this Pragyan to meet Peter Nordin, the inventor of the ALLAN - method  for Artificial General Intelligence and father of Elvis, Elvina, and Priscilla: Sweden’s first full-scale humanoid robots which are the brain child of his Chalmers’ Humanoid Project .

He has carried out path breaking research in lucrative areas like commercial evolutionary robotics software and software for a complete cognitive system for robots, the invention of evolutionary induction of mathematical proofs and of binary machine language,  speech and vision recognition,  and linear genetic programming for internet search. He has also mastered the analysis of genetic programming through complexity theory. His research belongs to the top 200 Most Cited in Computer Science leaving nothing more to imagination.

He entrepreneurial saga is no less of a success story as he laid the foundation of Dacapo AB, a research and development company & also co-founded the American company RML Technologies, Inc. with the first commercial GP software & while at Chalmers, he started another 10 spin-off companies based on his research. He also founded the first European company for Humanoid Technology: the Estonian company European Humanoids OY and co-founded the Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia. His parent company, JPN Group, has a user base of over 1 million PCs worldwide, in addition to serving multiple Fortune 500 companies globally.

Accolades have also been ushered on ambidextrous personality for his extraordinary endeavour. He is listed by the Swedish Trade Council as one of Sweden's Most Influential Contemporary Inventors & has received the Sten Gustafsson Prize for Entrepreneurship, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

In the truest sense of the term 'An International Techno-Managerial Festival', Pragyan '10 presents a lecture from one of the leading Technopreneurs of today. Be there to interact with this multitalented personality at Pragyan 2010!! 

Peter Nordin's Wikipedia Page

Robobusiness: Robots with Imagination

Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia AB