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Ask Later slides and notes

In Weblog on 26 July 2006 tagged ask-later, Notes, Slides, Talks, Weblog with 4 comments

Notes from my Ask Later talk, One Should Not Think That These Are Two Separate Things, after the jump.

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Design Engaged 2005

In Imported, Uncategorized, Weblog on 12 November 2005 tagged Design-Engaged, Events, Notes, People with no comments

Composed in equal parts of heroes, friends and people to Google, Design Engaged in Berlin this weekend looks and sounds like it's been a whole lot of fun.

Technorati searches are looking a little anaemic so far, but Timo Arnall has the photos, Chris Heathcote has the buffets, Matt Jones has the snooping, Matt Webb has the notes, Caterina Fake has the people and Fiona Romeo has the women. Hoping to see more soon though.

I'm sad to have missed Eric Rodenbeck and Mike Migurski's talk "Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich? Wattenberg Wattenberg Wattenberg Wattenberg." (Matt Webb's notes). Guys, look me up if you ever come to London, please?

PLAN | ICA, Day 2

In Imported, Uncategorized, Weblog on 3 February 2005 tagged Events, Notes, PLAN with no comments

My notes from day 2 at PLAN are now online.

PLAN | ICA, Day 1

In Imported, Uncategorized, Weblog on 3 February 2005 tagged Events, Notes, PLAN with no comments

I've just finished a rough transcript of my notes from day 1 of this week's PLAN workshop.

Molly has better notes at social beasts, and Nicolas had already collected some of the take-home messages at Pasta and Vinegar.

Agents, Behaviour, Emergence and Embodiment

In Imported, Uncategorized, Weblog on 3 November 2004 tagged Agents, Artificial-Intelligence, Books, Embodiment, Emergence, Links, Notes, Simulation, Software, Talks, Teaching with no comments

Here are my online references from a lecture I gave today at UCL.

• Wikipedia on AI, includes a paragraph on "neats" and "scruffies".
• Desire-lines & Emergent paths: a light-hearted presentation of a predictive model / apparently it wasn't Berkeley, Irvine, or the Oregon Experiment who tried to use it... has anyone actually tried it?
• Craig Reynolds' boids / Steering Behaviours (the individual steering behaviour examples are essential viewing) / an HP labs tech report on not evolving collective behaviour for fish / well explained pseudocode for boids / my quick 2D processing implementation of the pseudocode (commented code and 3D version available on request).
• Pedestrian Simulation: Alasdair Turner's EVAS agents / my post on the MSc VE weblog about a pedestrian sim project in the Alps / Crowd Dynamics (the design is terrible, but click main menu and scroll down to the "Myriad" section).
• Brandeis's DEMO lab: The Golem Project / Evolutionary Design / Evolution of Buildable Objects (LEGO)
• Stigmergy: a good academic intro (pdf, HTML summary here) / Dan Ladley's termite constructions.
• Karl Sims: evolved creatures / the "blockies" MPEG / a retrospective.
• The books I mentioned, all very accessible: Valentino Braitenberg's Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology / Mitchel Resnick's Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams / Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software.
• The software/libraries I mentioned: steering behaviours work has spun off into a free open source library called Open Steer / Breve is a 3D environment for the simulation of decentralized systems and artificial life / Framsticks doesn't require programming knowledge / there is a demo of BEAST at David Gordon's homepage.

This will all be assimilated into my del.icio.us page shortly.