Karl Reinsch's Blog

Games As A Killer App For AI

Karl W. Reinsch — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:00:54 +0000

It has been ten years to the day since John E. Laird and Michael van Lent published their paper “Human-level AI’s Killer Application: Interactive Computer Games”. In ten years, what has and hasn’t changed? (Direct link to PDF at Laird’s homepage) Related posts:October Rules Fest: A Wishlist Knowledge Transfer Through Video Games StarCraft AI Competition [...] Related posts:

Microsoft Rule Engine Survey

Karl W. Reinsch — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:12:38 +0000

Are you interested in helping to shape Microsoft’s future rules products? Microsoft is running a survey on rule engines in general, and its own rule products (WF Rules, MS BRE) in particular through the end of this week – June 4. (I would have blogged it yesterday, but was off due to holiday.) The survey [...] Related posts:

Rules In WF4

Karl W. Reinsch — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:55:26 +0000

My blog stats show trending topics around searches for “wf4 rule engine” and “wf rule engine” and “wf rules” among other variations. If those topics are leading people to this blog, then I might as well address the topic directly. What Is WF? For those who don’t know what the queries above mean – it [...] Related posts:

Using A Rule Engine For Hacking

Karl W. Reinsch — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:40:21 +0000

I was interested to stumble upon an issue of the hacker zine Phrack dating back to 2000 which includes a tutorial on building a vulnerability scanning system used for hacking…that includes a rule engine. The article mentions a number of things you would expect: Rete, OPS5, CLIPS, Charles Forgy, Daniel Miranker and even the monkey [...] Related posts:

The Future Of Gaming

Karl W. Reinsch — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:05:05 +0000

Here’s the video for an interesting speech by Jesse Schell entitled “Design Outside The Box.” Topics of the speech include: the psychology of games – making them sticky the consumer desire for realism and authenticity as a recent trend technological convergence/divergence of devices, the iPhone, the iPad, and the “pocket exception” the possibility of game [...] Related posts:

Digital Books and the iPad

Karl W. Reinsch — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:25:49 +0000

A nice illustrated piece by Craig Mod entitled “Books in the age of the iPad”. I can’t find the link right now, but Craig’s piece reminds me of some speculation that collector’s edition books could eventually become the only books worth actually printing, and that publishers who want to sell physical books should innovate along [...] Related posts:

Revisiting Doom

Karl W. Reinsch — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:05:51 +0000

A neat article by J.P. LeBreton looking back at the design and play style of the original Doom. As J.P. says: Doom feels more like 1st person Robotron than a modern FPS Related posts:Portable Video Games The Future Of Gaming Wolfenstein 3D arrives on the iPhone Related posts:

China’s “Human-Flesh Search”

Karl W. Reinsch — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:59:33 +0000

Interesting piece in the New York Times on a phenomenon in China known as “human-flesh search” where Internet users work together to humiliate or otherwise punish people. As the Times says: It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results. Related posts:Search Box Candor Rules Research Archaeology Related posts:

Realtime Datamining Of Location Data

Karl W. Reinsch — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:51:02 +0000

All the recent coverage of PleaseRobMe.com has focused on one particular idea of what can be done with realtime datamining of location data. (And how long until we see mashups combining PleaseRobMe.com with social cataloging sites such as LibraryThing?) Where My Ladies At? (link goes to John Bollozos’ descriptive writeup) is another such site – [...] Related posts:

Another Profile Of Demand Media

Karl W. Reinsch — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:21:58 +0000

Five months after the Wired article, Time Magazine has a recent profile of Demand Media. The article is short and doesn’t have much additional data compared to the Wired article. However, the author submitted approximately 20 articles to Demand, and did some experimenting such as including factual errors to see if they would be caught. [...] Related posts: