Archives of ArtificialIntelligence

New book/wiki – a practical artificial intelligence ‘cookbook’

Having almost completed The Screencasting Handbook I’m now thinking about my next project. I’ve been involved in the field of artificial intelligence since my first computer (a Commodore 64 back in the 80s) and I’ve continued to be paid to work in this area since the end of the 90s. Update – as mentioned below […]
15 years ago

£5 App Tues 30th March – Wildlife, Robots and Plaques

On Tuesday 30th March we’ll have our 22nd £5 App night running from 8pm at The Skiff. We’ll have: Wildlife Near You by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe Open Plaques by Jez Nicholson and Simon Harriyott BotBuilder robots by Steve Carpenter ScoreSure Golf Pro by Chris (video) as a Show n’Tell Jamie Campbell on Google’s […]
15 years ago

Science companies around Brighton

Two years back I posted an entry listing the science companies I knew around Brighton who are involved in high-tech software (i.e. not science companies who make physical products). The list has changed a bit with some nice additions so I’ve updated it below.  If you know of one that I’m missing do send me […]
15 years ago

Intelligent User Interfaces 2010 conference

I’m at IUI 2010, this is a mostly academic conference focused on using new techniques to make intelligent user interfaces.  I’ll update this entry as the conference proceeds. Day 1 (Sunday) – Workshops I’m in the Eye Gaze for Intelligent Human Machine Interaction workshop, there’s a full breakdown of this session’s talks here. The talks […]
15 years ago

Text to Speech – Festival (cross platform) and MacSpeechX (Python on Mac)

I wanted to play with text to speech, I’ve been looking for a cross-platform open-source solution that sounds reasonable.  I’m really impressed with the festival project, the web demo lets you enter your own text. Update – I’m including this post in my plans for an Artificial Intelligence Handbook. Festival is cross-platform but compiling it […]
15 years ago

ConceptNetDaily Twitter Bot

I’ve just launched my second Twitter bot – @ConceptNetDaily takes a random concept from the A.I. site ConceptNet and posts it to Twitter with a link back to the site. A tweet looks like: “When humans own horses, humans groom and ride horses.” http://tinyurl.com/ydvf7vg The TinyURL expands out to an address like: http://openmind.media.mit.edu/en/assertion/143313/ The aim […]
15 years ago

‘A.I. in the Real World’ Lecture at Sussex University

Dr. Blay Whitby was kind enough to invite me to lecture to his 2nd year students for the last lecture in his Artificial Intelligence course, the aim being to give the students a grounding in Artificial Intelligence in the real (as opposed to academic) world. Topics covered include War Stories from my last 10 years […]
16 years ago

Robot posts at RoboChick

It is lovely to see that Emily has added new posts on her robotic explorations at robochick. Topics include a look at CCNR (that’s Sussex Uni’s Centre for Computational Neuroscience) with video, Emily’s talk on building robots as ‘Batteries not included‘ for Brighton Girl Geeks, thoughts on presenting at the £5 App Xmas Special and […]
16 years ago

Making Python math 196* faster with shedskin

Dr. Michael Thomas approached me with an interesting A.I. job to see if we could speed up his neural network code from a 10 year old research platform called PlaNet. Using new Sun boxes they weren’t getting the speed-ups they expected, old libs or other monkey business were suspected. As a first investigation I took […]
16 years ago

RoboChick – Emily’s first post

Emily has started blogging on RoboChick, she’s talking about the Herbie the Mousebot birthday prezzie I bought her (pcb + parts + motors == hours of fun), one of the two wheeled robots that I thought would make for cool projects.  I hope she gets the pictures up soon…Robot pictures in flickr.
16 years ago