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 Researcher: Steve Grand (born 1958 - NOT the country singer, haha)
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  - Self-taught computer scientist, according the NYT article on him.  Works alone almost exclusively or with his wife.
- - //Creatures// game, which is sort of an artificial life simulation where players raise and 'teach' virtual organisms kind of like pets.  This game is very popular and looks pretty legit.
+ - //Creatures// game, which is sort of an artificial life simulation where players raise and 'teach' virtual organisms kind of like pets.  This game is/was very popular and looks pretty legit.
- - //Lucy the Android//, a project by Grand in which he made a small robot to simulate a baby orang-utan ("Lucy").  He wrote a book on this subject, called "Growing up with Lucy".  Project sounds awesome, pictures of the robot are downright creepy, though (and not in a cute robot way - more of an Exorcism way)
+ - //Lucy the Android//, a project in which Grand made a small robot to simulate a baby orang-utan ("Lucy").  He wrote a book on this subject, called "Growing up with Lucy".  Project sounds awesome, pictures of the robot are downright creepy, though (and not in a "cute robot" way - more of an Exorcism way)
  - //Sim-biosis//, a simulation game where users can build alife from small units (think Legos).  Code project is on SourceForge.