First-person shooters have a reputation for driving graphics technology, and it's no different for AI. Many notable innovations of the past few years have come from FPS games — including the AI Director from LEFT 4 DEAD, the STRIPS-planner from F.E.A.R. the HTN planner in KILLZONE 2, etc. With the latest wave of shooters being released in Q1 & Q2 2011 (e.g. CRYSIS 2, BULLETSTORM, BRINK) there's no better time to stop and take a look at which challenges are still ahead of us.

Douglas R. Hofstadter is best-known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach (GEB for short). In his latest book, I am a Strange Loop, he visits once again many of the themes originally presented in that book.

From the simple 3-string cigar box guitar instructional that started the Cigar Box Guitar Revolution to historical plans dating back to the 1800's...we've collected them all.

Our research focuses on automating the process of translating puppet play specifications in MDLp to a sequence of valid puppet control modes. Not only are we interested in the specificaiton of these plays, we also wish to optimize the control sequence based on a model of a real puppet in order to create more realistic motion on the real platform.

A JavaScript pattern and antipattern code collection that covers function patterns, jQuery patterns, design patterns, general patterns, literals and constructor patterns, object creation patterns (upcoming), code reuse patterns (upcoming), DOM and browser patterns (upcoming).

This page is for references to signed quotes of deployments of large triples stores rather than predictions of what some software might scale to

Tag clouds (or word clouds) are very trendy in the fashionable web 2.0.
But very often those clouds are rendered via HTML / CSS and are quite ugly.