Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games [Slashdot:] 2:00:19 PM      Google It!.

8th Annual AUV Competition Results [Slashdot:] 12:34:12 PM      Google It!.

PDAs add new dimension to distance learning - Les Chappell, Wisconsin Technology. Forget a computer on every desktop - the future of learning is a computer in the palm of every hand. It's learning that can engage diverse audiences - from uncommunicative high school students to members of the Armed Forces - in methods that can blend rea [Online Learning Update] ADL-CoLab educational game -- BL 9:24:30 AM      Google It!.

Web-Enabled Simulations: Exploring the Learning Process - Kendall Whitehouse, Educause Quarterly. The Wharton School explores whether Web-enabled simulations provide new ways of learning that are fundamentally unlike traditional methods. There is a frequently voiced belief that information technology (IT) will transform the educational process. We of [Online Learning Update] 9:19:35 AM      Google It!.

Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving [Slashdot:] 2D Driving Simulator 9:15:46 AM      Google It!.

How the brain understands pictures. The figure is famous: a deceptively simple line drawing that at first glance resembles a vase and, at the next, a pair of human faces in profile. When you look at this figure, your brain must rapidly decide what the various lines denote. Are they the outlines of the vase or the borders of two faces? How does your brain decide? It does so in a fraction of a second via special nerve circuits in the brain's visual center that automatically organize information into a "whole" even as an individual's gaze and attention are focused on only one part, according to Johns Hopkins researchers writing in a recent issue of the journal Neuron. [Science Blog - Science News Articles from Medicine, Space, Physics and More] 9:06:38 AM      Google It!.