Stephan Vladimir Bugaj
Stephan Vladimir
Bugaj is Technical Director at
Pixar Animation Studios.
Films he’s worked on include the features
The Incredibles,
Cars,
Ratatouille,
WALL-E,
Brave, as well as the Cars
Toons shorts.
Stephan is a professional with experience in both the technical and
creative aspects
of animated and live action film making. He also has professional
experience with computer science R&D in the areas of multimedia and
artificial intelligence.
His specialties include
screenwriting; fiction writing; sci/tech writing; copywriting;
directing; photography and cinematography; producing; production
pipeline analysis; shading and rendering with slim, sl, and prman;
compositing; cloth and hair simulation; non-linear editing; audio
recording; sound design; AI theory; software engineering; software and
systems requirements analysis and design; information architecture;
server and cluster architecture; business process analysis; market
analysis; and product design.
Stephan is coauthor of
The Path to Posthumanity: 21st Century Technology and Its Radical
Implications for Mind, Society and Reality, and
contributing author to
The VES Handbook of Visual Effects: Industry Standard VFX Practices
and Procedures,
Creating Internet Intelligence: Wild Computing, Distributed Digital
Consciousness, and the Emerging Global Brain,
Artificial General Intelligence 2008:Proceedings of the First AGI
Conference, and
Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures
and Algorithms.
His papers include
Exploring Android Developmental Psychology in a Simulation
World,
Stages of Cognitive Development in Uncertain-Logic-Based AI
Systems,
The Message Is The Medium,
AGI Preschool:
A Framework for Evaluating Early-Stage Human-like AGIs,
Five Ethical Imperatives and their Implications for Human-AGI
Interaction,
Stages of Ethical Development in Artificial
General Intelligence Systems, and
The Coming Evolution.
His patents include
Dependency graph-based aggregate asset status reporting methods and
apparatus,
Automatic pre-render pinning of change isolated assets methods and
apparatus,
Manual component asset change isolation methods and apparatus,
and
System and method for flexible path handling.
Stephan earned his AA in Liberal Arts and Quantitative Studies at
Bard College at Simon’s Rock in 1993.
He studied Computer Science and the Philosophy of Technology
at San Jose State University from 1993 to 1995.
He studied Filmmaking at the City College of San Francisco from
1994 to 1995.
He studied Computer Science at UC Berkeley from 1994 to 1996.
He studied Computer Science at the
Stevens Institute of Technology from 1996 to 1998.
He earned his Advanced Professional Certificate in Screenwriting
at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2008.
Watch
AGI Preschool: A Framework for Evaluating Early-Stage Human-like
AGIs and
How do we more greatly ensure responsible AGI?
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