Austin Tate : Weblog items tagged with AI

MSc in e-Learning Dissertation Festival 2012

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:48:22 GMT

I will give a presentation on my MSc dissertation work to the MSc in e-Learning Dissertation Festival on 1st August 2012 at 4pm BST. This will take place on the Vue South region in Second Life.

The thesis is titled "Activity in Context – Planning to Keep Learners ‘in the Zone’ for Scenario-based Mixed-Initiative Training".

A number of threads have been brought together in this work:

to study the cognitive psychological foundations for situated social learning;
to identify effective learning methods relevant to mixed-initiative interaction between agents;
to describe the relationship between cognitive psychological activity models and an AI research-informed conceptual model of activity;
to provide a methodology for how the concepts identified could be utilised in a training-orientated “I-Zone” – a virtual space for intelligent scenario-based interaction; and
to create, document and demonstrate a resource base for experimentation and potential re-use on projects in this area.

The core message can be summarised as:

Mixed-Initiative:
Constrain the environment,
Inject and Induce

Haiku

The dissertation is due to be completed by the end of August 2012. More details of the project, access to the dissertation once complete, and various resources related to the work are at http://atate.org/mscel/i-zone/.

Stanford AI Class - Largest Ever Distance Education Course

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:18:27 GMT

I am enrolled on the on-line Stanford AI Class... http://ai-class.com - along with 150,000 others - to watch how they present and deliver the "Introduction to AI" course, to see how the on-line assessment and quizzes work, and to see how student interaction with tutors and each other is arranged. Its been an interesting experience so far. Everyone seems to be enjoying the course and the community. The short video segments for each lecture are broken up with quizzes to check understanding as you go along. Often with check boxes and type in areas overlaid with the video material itself.

AI in the Movies - Discussion on The Terminator Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:52:56 GMT

http://www.eusci.org.uk/podcasts/eusci-podcast-extra-conversation-ai-researchers

At the 2011 the Edinburgh International Film Festival, one of the events was a screening of the 1984 scifi classic The Terminator. The event was followed by a discussion with two real-life AI researchers from the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. We managed to catch the two scientists before the event and talk to them about the past and future of AI, its perception in the media, and whether we should worry about the Robot Apocalypse.

Listen to our conversation with:

Austin Tate, Professor of Knowledge-Based Systems
Sethu Vijayakumar, Professor of Robotics