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Silicon Minds Challenge (+ submission sample)
On the 8th December 2007 the Silicon Minds challenge was launched at the Machine Learning and Games workshop of the NIPS conference in the picturesque Canadian ski resort of Whistler. The challenge is to push the limits of Artificial Intelligence while Read More...
Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) 2007
At the beginning of this month (October) I attended and presented at the CUFP event in Freiburg, Germany. The talk was on some of the work our group has been doing over the last year using F# including the XBox 360 title Halo 3 and on predicting ad clicks Read More...
Composing a video game in F#
This week it was my opportunity to present a topic for 15 minutes at the MLP group's ritual Tuesday afternoon tea and cakes session (yes - we are based in the UK). I thought it might be fun to knock up a little game with the Microsoft functional programming Read More...
First Halo 3 Multiplayer Details Emerge!
I am a big fan of Halo and Halo 2 so I was very pleased to see several gaming pages starting to report details of the Halo 3 multiplayer (originally printed in a Swedish gaming magazine). The "man-cannon" and the "Moongoose" sound like amazing fun! And, Read More...
Meeting the Press: Gaming with Katie Ledger and Steve Clayton
Yesterday, we had some prominent visitors: Katie Ledger and Steve Clayton of PTS-TV . PTS-TV is a UK project to connect with the tens of thousands of Microsoft Partners in a new way (inspired by Channel 9 ). Katie and Steve interviewed both Thore and Read More...
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