Archive for January, 2003
Collective Intelligence in Social Insects
Monday, January 20th, 2003Biological systems have long been a source of inspiration for AI. The latest paradigm to make the virtual leap comes from social insects - ant colonies and swarms. This article gives an overview of promising technologies to emerge from this field, looking at reasons ’swarm thinking’ might come to characterise the new millenium.
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Self-Organising Maps For Colour Recognition
Monday, January 13th, 2003Looking into unsupervised learning techniques, this article offers a different approach to recognising colours. The system can train itself to match similar colours together. When asked about unknown colours, it learns them for future queries.
Written by Max Dennis Luesebrink.
IBM’s Robocode: A Platform for Learning AI
Sunday, January 5th, 2003This platform is not only a fun tool for learning how to program in Java, but is also a powerful environment for testing out AI concepts. This article is an introduction to the platform and how it
can be used for AI programming.
Written by Nick Loadholtes.
