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Annual Turing Test Challenges

There are presently two major chatterbot contests which utilize the Turing Test as the determinant - the bot which most closely comes to passing (or does pass) the Turing Test is deemed the winner. These two contests, the Loebner Prize ... Read more

Distributed AI Coming to a Computer Near You

Canadian high-tech startup Intelligence Realm is constructing a distributed virtual brain, one computer at a time. Utilizing a computational model we’ve seen in such projects as SETI@Home, the system will harness the computing power of thousands of machines throughout ... Read more

Evolving Artwork Generated by Distributed System

The Electric sheep open-source screensaver utilizes a network of 60,000 computers to render frames of an ever changing collection of fractal-based animations. A genetic algorithm is employed to ensure that no two animations are the same and that desirable visuals ... Read more

Mind Reading Devices Going Mainstream

Some interesting new mind-reading headsets are finding their way to market. The devices relay the electrical signals within the wearer's brain to a computer, which then can use the information to control such things as characters in video games, medical ... Read more

The RoboCup Robot Challenges

Created in 1997, RoboCup is an annual tournament composed of several robotic competitions including soccer, rescue, and tasks around the home. The competitions allow teams to not only have fun, but assist in the development of the fields of robotics ... Read more

Open Learning

Jena Semantic Web Framework for Java

Back Propagation Tutorial, Case Study and Code

Open Automaton Robot Project

Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

Online Neural Networks Textbook from Willamette University

Repast Simphony Agent-Based Modeling Toolkit

Online Guide to Prolog Programming

EDLUT: Event-Driven Simulator Based on Lookup Tables

CodeRally Programming Game

Interesting Articles from Around the Web (5/28/09)

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Thursday, 28 May 2009 04:40

brain-dump-small There are so many interesting stories coming out I don't have the time or energy to create writeups for all of them. However, I hate to let good finds go to waste so I'll regularly post links I think are worth checking out.