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New Articles and a Job Offer! - 3rd March, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
The usual list of articles: I also received this e-mail from Elsewhere Entertainment:
"Elsewhere Entertainment, a Belgian game development studio, is searching for a lead AI programmer to work on the game The-Incident, its flagship product. The-Incident is a 3d squad based tactical shooter with autonomous enemies and team-mates, built around a big amount of interactive story telling...If you are interested in this opportunity and if you have a proven experience in the field of game AI development, you can send an email to job@elsewhere-entertainment.com...Elsewhere Entertainment is a new game development studio created by Yves Grolet who is co-founder of Appeal, the company that created Outcast, an action/aventure game published by Infogrames."

Last Minute Articles - 28th February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
It seems to me that a new revolution is around the corner, the "Ambient Intelligence" revolution where everything that surrounds us will be smart, from the pen we write with to the chair we sit on, the car we drive to the paint on our walls. It is for this reason that I've diversified Generation5's article listing slightly over the past month or so. So without further ado, here are today's articles:

Big Article Update - 25th February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
Quite a few new articles for you to look at: Seems to be a lot of media interest concerning AI and medical research. Thanks to Kebbie and John Smith for some of the links above.

Update - 21st February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
Quite a few articles to look through this time around: Here are two other links that others may find interesting. Amazon are holding an auction for the first 3 Segways. At the time of writing, one was going for $100,600 and there is still a month to go before the close of the auction! Finally, for the gamers among you here is Technology Review article on how the gaming industry affects other sectors.

SWARM Art - 21st February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
Vitorino Ramos sent me word of his latest work on Swarm Intelligence in Art and Architecture. His essay "On the Implicit and on the Artificial" discusses ant systems and their applications to art. He also sent me a link to this very interesting essay that demonstrates Swarm paintings (pretty pictures included!). I'd be very interested to hear from other people using ALife to generate or study art.

Robot Articles and more - 17th February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
Received quite a few articles about the future of robots and current robots: ...and in other news, here are some other articles that have kept me going these cold English days:

Job at Motersims - 17th February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
Motorsims wrote to me today saying that they have a job opening for an AI programmer to work on a new game. Details can be found on the Motorsims website.

Large Article Update - 11th February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
I've had a huge number of excellent article submissions today, so I'll just dump them all here for you: Finally, for a bit of fun try this site that allows you to phone a (US) number and convert a Shakespeare passage into "music". Incidentally, the system uses VoiceXML to power the navigation. Thanks to Kebbie for this link.

Image Analysis Explorer Pro Preview and New Articles - 10th February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
Over the last week, I've been working on the next Image Analysis Explorer because I felt the current version was too limiting and slow. I thought I'd post a preview screenshot of Image Analysis Explorer Pro. It has a large number of additional features, such as invert, Floyd-Steinberg dithering, region of interest support, histograms and advanced (hopefully, interactive) thresholding. Features to implement include better convolution, Canny edge detection, noise filters, (inverse) fast-fourier transforming, morphological filters, affine transformation, warping and perhaps a few more things!

On a more normal note, here are the latest articles:

Robotics, Evolutionary Imaging and more - 7th February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
I've had quite a few article submissions these past few days but by far the most frequent one was the media coverage about the new Magna exhibition about predatory robots. See this BBC Sci-Tech article, this Wired article or the Magna official website. Am I right in thinking Noel Sharkey is one of the judges on Robot Wars?

Smart Homes and More - 4th February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
I saw this BBC SciTech article about Hewlett-Packard's CoolTown, a £7 million project to look at our future, digital lifestyle. I seem to remember posting about a similar project that Orange had undertaken. On the top of smart homes, take a look at the IceBox, the first kitchen computer. With a water-resistant keyboard, X-10 compatible, DVD capabilities and a 125-channel cable ready tuner/broadband internet, the IceBox seems set to win over the hearts of housewives all over America! Or will it?

Here are the other articles that peaked my interest today:

Japan: Gateway to the Future - 3rd February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
Generation5 has posted its feature on the London Science Museum exhibition. Pictures of Paro, a robotic seal, ERS-310 and ERS-210 AIBOs at play and TMSUK4, the tele-operated robot. Please give me a few more days to edit and clean up the videos. Here is a Reuters article on the exhibition and here is the link again to the offical page.

New Articles and Generation5 Update - 3rd February, 2002

Posted by James Matthews:
Thank you to those of you that sent in news links: My thanks to Kebbie for those last two links. Here is a quick update for those of you interested in what is coming on Generation5. I'm working on the next version of Image Analysis Explorer, it has its size limitation removed, reads many different types of image files and is about 500% quicker! Expect to see a few more reviews popping up, I have a stack of books, software and games to work my way through. Hopefully, some new SAPI and Prolog tutorials are on their way too.


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