Wednesday, July 23, 2003

the 2003 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest results are in Winner: Detective Detective Inspector Mike Norman slipped six fingers into his overcoat pocket, five of them clad in a latex glove and attached to his palm, while the sixth was wrapped in a plastic evidence bag and apparently belonged to the kidnapped pianist Ricardo Moore, or, as it now seemed likely, the kidnapped ex-pianist Ricardo Moore. Alan Campbell Edinburgh, Scotland comments? [] 12:57:13 PM     The love child of Charlie Chaplin, Frankenstein, and the Terminator Comical poignant, persuasive and interesting.  Who could ask for more.   Some out-takes from training are shown - the biped falls over in various ways as it learns to walk. (5.5 Mb) Russell Smith's PhD Thesis The thesis title is: Intelligent Motion Control with an Artificial Cerebellum. Abstract This thesis describes a novel approach for adaptive optimal control and demonstrates its application to a variety of systems, including motion control learning for legged robots. by way of Aleks Totic's geek diary comments? [] 12:42:02 PM

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