virtual worlds as portals for information discovery

CiE Turing Centenary Conference, University of Cambridge22 June 2012

Shannon Bohle, MLIS, FRAS PhD Student, History and Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridge

Virtual Worlds as Portals for Information Discovery

Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own and are not representative of any organization named.

Dr. John MatherNobel Laureate in Physics,

2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN9uaAEXnbY

Defense Technical Information Center

National Defense UniversityWashington, DC

FCVW 2010 Mixed Reality Poster Session

NASA JPL’s Explorer Island

Curiosity AIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKTP36tqwK0

National Defense UniversityWashington, DC

FCVW 2011 Artificial Intelligence Panel

Turing Test

“I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’… the best strategy is [for

the machine] to try to provide answers that would naturally be given by a man.”

-- Alan Mathison Turing

<aiml><category><pattern>Hello</pattern><template>Hi!</template></category></aiml>

Category

Pattern

Template

XML wrapper for a unit of knowledge

The potential AI’s response(s) to the human query or comment

Direct Response, Non-varied

Human question, statement, utterance, or unfinished sentence using a wildcard

AIML Elements

http://www.slideshare.net/01archivist/basic-aiml-class

<aiml><category><pattern>DO YOU KNOW WHO * IS</pattern><template><srai>WHO IS <star/></srai></template></category></aiml>

Wildcard

srai

XML wrapper for a unit of knowledge

Redirect, Wildcard

Redirect to another pattern

AIML Elements

<category><pattern>YOUR A *</pattern><template>I think you mean "you’re" or "you are" not "your."<srai>YOU ARE A <star/></srai></template></category>

Correction

srai

Spelling and grammar can be corrected by anticipating errors and redirecting

Correction Redirect, Wildcard

Redirect to another pattern

AIML Elements

<aiml><category><pattern>GOOGLE *</pattern><template><![CDATA[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=]]><star/> . <![CDATA[]]></template></category></aiml>

URLs

cdata

XML wrapper for a unit of knowledge

Link, Wildcard

section of element content marked for the parser to interpret as only character data, not markup

AIML Elements

Rehabilitation Robotics

eLegs Haptics @ Virtual Ability

Penn State Virtual Home Robotics Course

http://www.slideshare.net/01archivist/penn-states-educational-robotics-projects-and-exhibits

IEEE Rover Challenge

Judges: Plato Pizzicato, Archivist LlewellynWinners of the Rover Challenge

Voice Controlled Robots

Uruk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15BaDjd7f1c

Chinese Language Immersive Learning

http://www.slideshare.net/01archivist/chinese-language-cultural-immersion-ai-robots

Navigate Curiosity - Rover Race

USAF, Informatics

USAF, Huffman Prairie Gamma

Next Generation War Gaming

US Army Invests $57 Million in CryEngine 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OglCqZq3pcE

War Games (1983)

RealityHollywood

Panetta uses dismounted soldier training system (2012)

"NASA missions are generating progressively more data which must be transmitted back to Earth reliably, efficiently, and inexpensively. Optical communications will be the key to realizing the NASA goals of a virtual presence in space and development of an interplanetary network“ http://lasers.jpl.nasa.gov/PAGES/about.html

Virtual Learning Opportunities in Gamification & AI

Shannon Bohle, MLIS, FRASDept. of History and Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridgesb838@cam.ac.uk

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