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Medal of Honor Website Launched http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/ Using a creative mix of Flash and text, the U.S. Army has put together a tremendous website capturing the heroism of one of its own complete with a battlescape and supporting information. The site is dedicated to valor of Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith in the face of enemy fire. President Bush will present the Medal of Honor posthumously to Sergeant Smith's family in a White House Ceremony on April 4. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/30/2005 10:16:00 PM 
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Laughing Squid - RoboGames 2005 Laughing Squid - RoboGames 2005 LaughingSquid has a tremendous collection of pictures from last year's RoboGames. Well worth a look, if you fancy robot games. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/26/2005 11:27:00 AM
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RoboGames Wired News: Robots Are Ready to Rumble and SF RoboGames This Weekend Catch the latest news on San Francisco's RoboGames at the above sites. Among the contestants from 12 countries in 46 ataegories are Alcoholic Stepfather (reputed to be able to shoot flames nearly 25 feet) and a 340 monster called Super Megabyte. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/26/2005 11:14:00 AM
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Robotics Society of America http://www.robotics-society.org/html/ The Robotics Society of America website at first glance looks wonderful with a great design, cool graphics, and some pithy news stories on robotic development, but sadly it is only a shell with most areas of the site lacking any content. It appears that most of their content is still being posted at http://www.robots.org/ or at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfrsa/. The site does advertise the Robolympic Games to be held in San Francisco from March 25-27, 2005. The event site at http://robolympics.net/ has some excellent coverage of the 2004 event with lots of pictures. As the event gets underway this site should have coverage of the 2005 event. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/24/2005 05:41:00 AM
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Intelligent Robots? http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,47879,00.html When the topic of AI comes up, a discussion of AI robots can't be too far behind. So I was curious to learn whether any of the new robotic toys had much to offer in the AI arena. Wired's Jeffrey Benner penned "Robot Dog 'Bugs' Inventor" a couple of days ago reviewing just that topic with a great discussion about a new mechanical bug toy that runs about $40. Fans of Michael Creighton's Prey may be a bit queasy about these little robots known as B.I.O. Mechanical Bugs (See http://www.toymania.com/news/messages/1213.shtml for pictures) and their advanced nervous networks technology allowing them to learn, react to friend/foe, and herd. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/22/2005 11:50:00 PM
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More on Games and AI http://www.cgf-ai.com Cgf-ai.com provides a great list of annotated links related to gaming and the use of AI. Articles range from the late 1990s to 2004 and cover some of the AI used in games like Halo, Ghost Recon, Quake, and Ages of Empire I & II. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/20/2005 01:01:00 AM
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Gaming and AI The http://www.gameai.com/ Where can we find artificial intelligence at work? Games! Although AI is still in its infancy, game programmers are hard at work trying to develop better AI capabilities to ensure richer game play. GameAI.com attempts to capture the latest scoop in this area with many topics and an online forum. The site also features at least a partial index of games with some AI at http://www.gameai.com/games.html Posted by WEBnME @ 3/19/2005 12:50:00 PM
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AI - Prize Winning ChatBot http://www.alicebot.org/ While the Turing Test and the Loebner Prize are not highly regarded in the professional AI community, the prize is still spurring efforts to create a chatbot that can convince judges that it is human. The Loebner prize comes in three flavors. Bronze ($2000) for highest score. Silver ($25,000) for a program able to convice half the judges it is human. Gold ($100,000) for a program able to convince half the judges it is human using speech instead of text. The winner of the Bronze prize in 2000, 2001 and 2004 was a program called ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity). You can chat with ALICE at http://www.alicebot.org/. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/19/2005 12:23:00 PM
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AI: The Turing Test http://www.turing.org In our previous article, we noted that a-i.com had a chatbot called Alan. Was the name random or coincidental? We think not. Most likely this AI chatbot was named after Alan Turing, who published an article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philospophy in 1950. (Click the link above for more information.) Turing posited that the operations of the brain must be computable and suggested a test for artificial intelligence using an imitation game as a test. In the imitation game, both a human and a computer would be questioned using textual messages under conditions where the tester would not know which was which. If the the person testing could not tell by the answers which was the computer and which was the person, then Turner believed it would not be unreasonable to call the computer intelligent. This imitation game is now called the Turing Test for intelligence. For the full text of the article, go to http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm. (The website presents many broken images, but the text is still intact.) Posted by WEBnME @ 3/19/2005 12:05:00 PM
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Meet an Artificial Intelligence Personality http://www.a-i.com A-I.com features Alan, who is a chatbot that can speak or write answers to your questions. Alan can guide you through this website which also features a nursery of artificial intelligence personalities in what is known as the HAL nursery. If you are fascinated with this, there is more. You can train your own HAL personality, save its memory, and if you chose, you can make it public. There are now about 100 public HAL personalities. Some personalities only speak a specific language depending on the trainer. Some personalities are limited and others more expansive depending on the trainer. You'll even find one called Adolf that is given to insults. The site also has a nice compact history of AI and acknowledges that the work to-date is pretty rudimentary. While you are there, if you want to learn more, you can also visit their forum or participate in open lab experiments. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/18/2005 11:29:00 PM
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) News http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/current.html Since watching I, Robot, I've been wondering where we are headed with AI. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence has part of the answer and a great collection of articles on current developments in AI. One particularly interesting article points out that software is being developed that could be able to give good, solid legal advice via the web. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/16/2005 11:59:00 PM
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The Virtual Body http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp From skeleton games and feats of organizing organs, the virtual body site provides a great learning environment though interactive Flash. You can learn about the brain, heart, digestive tract and skeleton on this site. Aside from the clever learning modules, the site offers a nice search engine for locating a health care service near you. Check out the health service locator at http://www.medtropolis.com/facilitylocator.asp. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/16/2005 11:50:00 PM
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Visualization of How News Travels on the Internet http://hammeroftruth.com/2004/03/08/how-news-travels-on-the-internet/ Ever wonder how news gets around on the net or how blogs fit into the scheme of things? About a year ago Stephen VanDyke attempted to capture the process in an infographic. (Click the link above to see it) He's put up a follow-up discussion at http://hammeroftruth.com/2004/03/09/how-im-travelling-on-the-internet/. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/16/2005 01:22:00 AM
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SINTEF Virtual Globe http://globe.sintef.no/ If you have the latest java runtime environment (Java v 1.4 or 1.5) and have an interest in visual geography in the Eastern Hemisphere, you'll want to visit this site. SINTEF offers a number of java based demos of the globe and Mars that you can download with 3D terrain. You can use your mouse or keyboard commands to shift your viewing angle and the area viewed. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/13/2005 11:43:00 AM
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Visualization for ZoneAlarm and BlackIce http://visualize.phenominet.com/ Zone Alarm and Black Ice firewall users will want to have a look at this site. It offers two products, VisualZone and VisualIce, that provide visual analysis of intrusion attempts. Downloads are free. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/13/2005 11:07:00 AM
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Google Parody - Gizoogle http://gizoogle.com If you ever wondered what Google would be like, if it went hip hop, you are in luck. This parody of Google will take you there. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/11/2005 12:06:00 PM
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Need to Be Liked? http://www.it.dev.duke.edu/tmp/I_Like_You.swf Go ahead. Click the link above and check it out. When you get there, click the red button to be liked! See, now don't you feel better. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/10/2005 10:40:00 PM
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GPS Visualizer http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ Free online utility! This site will take your GPS waypoints and tracks and create SVG maps and profiles or if you prefer, it can create a JPEG image too. If you have a GPS and were looking for a mapping utility, this is the place. GPS Visualizer supports GPX track and waypoint files, OziExplorer track and waypoint files, Geocaching.com LOC files, IGC log files, Garmin Forerunner Logbook XML files, tab or common delimited files, Cetus GPS, PathAway .pdb fles and NetStumbler log files. You can also enter data manually. The site also features an interactive weather mapper. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/09/2005 09:36:00 PM
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Data Visualization http://www.opendx.org/index2.php If you are trying to present data in a meaningful way you probably know that it helps to give visual cues so that your audience can visualize what the information means. OpenDX is the Open Source Software Project based on IBM's Visualization Data Explorer. Click on the link above to get to the OpenDX news page and then check out the gallery to see some of the creative ways this product is being used. And the good news is that it now ports to Windows as well as working nicely with Linux and MacOS X. The Windows version is available free of charge and if you are interested, go pull it down and tinker. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/06/2005 11:06:00 PM
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Thought Mapping Products http://www.visual-mind.com and http://www.mindjet.com/us/ Both of these sites offer impressive software that can be used to create visual maps of thought processes, business processes. Neither are cheap. Visual-Mind offers a professional version at $199 and a basic version at $89. Mind-jet offers a professional version at $349.00 and a more basic version at $229. Visual-Mind's website provides little information on the capabilities of its products. They apparently felt it was more important to have a nifty flash presentation using little page space and depend on you to download the product to discover its features. Mind Technologies (Norway) started developing Visual Mind in 1998. Mind-Jet takes a different approach with its website and offers up a list of impressive features including tight integration with Microsoft Office products. Charts created with Mind-Jet can be saved as a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation, for example. Mind-Jet also has gone the extra step to create versions of its software that extend compatibility to Table PC's and Mobile or Pocket PCs. Mind-Jet (US, Germany, UK) started development in 1994. Although more expensive, Mind-Jet appears to offer the best overall solution with more cross-platform compatibility, more integration with desktop software, and more native features matched with ease of use. This probably accounts for why it is used by 60% of the Fortune 100 companies. Both products offer business and professionals tremendous capabilities for creating visualizations of business processes and improving communications Posted by WEBnME @ 3/05/2005 01:04:00 PM
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Visual Disk Space Tool http://www.diskview.com/ Road Warriors pushing limited hard drive space or super-geeks with half a dozen hard drives trying to maximize disk usage and efficiency are going to love DiskView. This tool visually maps how your hard drive(s) is/are being used. Click the link above to see how the tool maps out drive space or even the space used by a folder. It can help you prioritize what needs to be kept and what you might want to clean-out to reclaim some disk-space. Or it may help you decide how to better use space across multiple drives. DiskView also ties in to your hard drive's S.M.A.R.T. capabilities to give you information on potential disk failures, heat, and more. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/03/2005 10:18:00 PM
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