Ian Wright

Current

• Founding Member and Research Scientist at AiLive

Past

• Lead Programmer, Artificial Intelligence R&D at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
• Research Assistant at University of Birmingham
• Intern at Microsoft

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Education

• The Open University
• The University of Birmingham
• University of Durham

• The Open University

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Recommended

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Connections

85 connections

Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Book

Ian Wright’s Summary

A Computer Science PhD with extensive experience in the computer games industry and a proven ability to embody AI techniques in innovative products that sell.

Ian Wright’s Specialties:

Applications of machine learning to computer entertainment. Development of AI middleware products from initial conception to design, implementation and release to customers. Author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on AI and computer games, cognitive science and economics. Expertise in computational and mathematical modeling of complex systems.

Ian Wright’s Experience

• Founding Member and Research Scientist

  AiLive

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  March 2001 — Present (8 years 9 months)

  My main achievements are helping to found AiLive and build it into a profitable company. I've been heavily involved in creating the products LiveCombat (real-time behavior capture), and LiveMove and LiveMove Pro (real-time motion recognition). I'm now working on a new version of our behavior capture technology, including applying it to the design and development of a commercial video game.

• Lead Programmer, Artificial Intelligence R&D

  Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Games industry)

  February 1997 — February 2001 (4 years 1 month)

  I worked on the BAFTA-nominated soccer videogame, "This Is Football". I led a small R&D team that created RC++, a rule-based language for computer game AI, a "level of detail" AI scheduler, and the singing recognition technology that powers the highly successful "SingStar" franchise.

• Research Assistant

  University of Birmingham

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

  RA in School of Computer Science.

• Intern

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1991 — 1991 (less than a year)

Ian Wright’s Education

• The Open University

  BSc Hons 1st Class , Mathematics , 2000 — 2006

• The University of Birmingham

  PhD , Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence) , 1993 — 1997

  PhD Thesis, "Emotional Agents"

• University of Durham

  BSc Hons (2.1) , Computer Science , 1989 — 1992

• The Open University

  PhD , Economics , 2005

  Mathematical models of theories of economic value

Additional Information

Ian Wright’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Book

Ian Wright’s Interests:

Economics, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer games