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Saturday, May 12, 2007 8:01 AM

Artificial Intelligence: What programming language should I learn to do Artificial Intelligence?

LISP? Visual Basic? VC++? C#? Something else like SNOBOL or Flowmatic (just kidding)... I would say C#, my apologies to John McCarthy, see his papers referenced at his Stanford site , and also I quote from his excellent paper: " LISP-Notes on its Past
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:29 AM

Artificial Intelligence in games: Looking at Turing's first article on machine intelligence

Let’s take a look at the writings of Alvin Turing on machine intelligence. What does this have to do with Xbox 360 games? A lot, since the very first article on machine intelligence and it’s first paragraph is about a machine playing a game (from “Computing
Posted by SoCal Sam | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:32 PM

Artificial Intelligence: Reflections on Turing’s "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

I have just finished reading "Computing Machinery And Intelligence" By A. M. Turing, and if you are thinking about doing game design, you need to read this article. It is humorous and fun to read, no math or symbolic logic symbols, clearly Turing was
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:35 AM

Practical use of Artificial Intelligence: Making Beer

Practical use of Artificial Intelligence: Making Beer In other articles I have discussed artificial intelligence in games and the cognitive types. Another practical use of artificial intelligence is to use it to help in brewing beer. An article (Threapleton
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Monday, May 07, 2007 11:04 AM

Having fun with Artificial Intelligence

As schools that I work with are moving to add some game design to the curriculum, one of the components of game design is Artificial Intelligence. What is artificial intelligence? Is it that terribly boring class you had to take after data structures
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