Projects

Computer Chess Where the chess board and your pieces are real, and the computer’s pieces are projected.
Capture The Flag Contest Grey Thumb held a contest for making computer programs to play Capture The Flag
Esc 3D first and third person perspective online nightclub for the PC.
Understanding Negotiations A computer program that, given an audio recording of a negotiation, predicts the outcome for each participant.
Essential Dynamics Greatly speeding up learning by estimating an approximation of how the world works.
Evolution of Vision Artificial evolution of the vision system of a mobile robot
Meta Optimization Artificial evolution of the priority function that controls a compiler’s choices when optimizing code
Interpretation of Music Extracting the tempo and phase from songs
Smaller Projects
Sound Toy A small program that lets infants make sounds with a computer
Sodarace Some basic notes on using automated techniques to create creatures for sodarace
Open Dynamics Engine I contributed the universal joint and C++ wrappers, along with a bunch of smaller things, to this open source physics engine.