Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Legend of the Greasepole gets the Silverlight 4 + Analytics treatment

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Rob Burke

Legend of the Greasepole has been ported to Silverlight 4 and reincarnated on http://greasepole.net. Greasepole is the long-suffering game about multimedia tribute to the inexplicable Engineering traditions at Queen’s University in Canada. Over 50 students contributed to the project back in … Continue reading →

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Development, Games and XBox, Microsoft | Tagged Achievements, Analytics, feedback, Greasepole, Legend of the Greasepole, Silverlight, Silverlight 4, Visual Studio 2010 | Leave a comment

Roomba

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Rob Burke

I finally watched a Roomba dance its funky dance.

The iRobot Roomba 550 we affectionately named Butler spent a half-hour cleaning the 4 downstairs rooms of a home, sucking up an impressive gob of dust from the previous night’s party. Continue reading →

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Development, Photography, Sweet | Tagged behavior, iRobot, navigation, Reviews, Rodney Brooks, Roomba, Roomba 550 | 3 Comments

The Unfolding of Language

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Rob Burke

When Stephen Fry laments “it is a cause of some upset that more Anglophiles don’t enjoy language,” it’s as if Michael Phelps were to lament that not enough people enjoy water. So when Stephen wholeheartedly recommended Guy Deutscher’s The Unfolding … Continue reading →