1. Stephen Malvern Omohundro was born on 1959 and is an American computer scientist whose areas of research include Hamiltonian physics, dynamical systems, programming languages, machine learning, machine vision, and the social implications of artificial intelligence.
Steve Omohundro has degrees in physics and mathematics from Stanford University and a Ph.
Steve Omohundro started the "Vision and Learning Group" at the University of Illinois, which produced 4 Masters and 2 Ph.
Steve Omohundro started Self-Aware Systems in Palo Alto, California to research the technology and social implications of self-improving artificial intelligence.
Steve Omohundro is an advisor to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute on artificial intelligence.
Steve Omohundro argues that rational systems exhibit problematic natural "drives" that will need to be countered in order to build intelligent systems safely.
Steve Omohundro has given many talks on self-improving artificial intelligence, cooperative technology, AI safety, and connections with biological intelligence.
At Thinking Machines Corporation, Cliff Lasser and Steve Omohundro developed Star Lisp, the first programming language for the Connection Machine.
Steve Omohundro joined the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, where he led the development of the open source programming language Sather.
Steve Omohundro showed that there exist smooth partial differential equations which stably perform universal computation by simulating arbitrary cellular automata.
Subutai Ahmad and Steve Omohundro developed biologically realistic neural models of selective attention.
Steve Omohundro developed an extension to the game theoretic pirate puzzle featured in Scientific American.
Steve Omohundro has sat on the Machine Intelligence Research Institute board of advisors.
Steve Omohundro has written extensively on artificial intelligence, and has warned that "an autonomous weapons arms race is already taking place" because "military and economic pressures are driving the rapid development of autonomous systems".