Between November 2004 and July 2006, I wrote and edited the AI Expert Newsletter for Dr Dobbs. This is the index to the copies I keep on my site. You can also find them at ainewsletter.com/.
July 2006: The UK Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour; Why Does Biological Evolution Produce Modular Designs? Teaching Evolution with Sodarace artificial life.
June 2006: links and notes concerning: energy-autonomous robots; massively parallel computation by chemical diffusion and reaction; immunocomputing for ballistic-intrusion detection, epidemiology, and other applications; equivalence between Hopfield neural nets and non-monotonic inference; combining neural networks with category theory and colimits; formalising metaphor as optimal blending with category theory and semiotic morphisms; synaesthesia.
May 2006: Functional programming in robotics; A blog with much info on functional programming and other matters; Links on how to do research; Neural-net-controlled helicopter, with gun.
April 2006: A meander through various topics: mainly image processing, language, and data presentation. Also a note on the 2006 Game Developers' Conference.
March 2006: Negative representations of information: artificial immune systems for intruder detection and other tasks; and negative databases for privacy.
February 2006: An AI Miscellany. Links to serious and humorous pages, including common-sense reasoning, insect models for scheduling, and genetic algorithms in Linux and Postgres.
January 2006: Special issue celebrating 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth Summer Project on Artificial Intelligence. "Eightynine People, Three Programs, and a Computer" - AI recollections, memorabilia, predictions, papers.
December 2005: Biological Computing and the Systematic Engineering of Biological Systems.
November 2005: Update to last month's "Regular expressions in Prolog". The University of Bath Replicating Rapid-Prototyper. FlockBots: Open source swarm robots. Open source Java AI software. What is planning? Final part of the evolutionary art feature.
October 2005: Logic Programming Associates's new Prolog (announcement). AI in Forth and Gawk. Maarten van Emden on the future of logic programming. Regular expressions in Prolog. An introduction to evolutionary art.
September 2005: A selection of quotes on the development of AI. Robot programming in Python - continuing last month's feature on AI in Python. Generating puns by computer.
August 2005: Iterative spreadsheets for neural nets and cellular automata, using circular references. The Koders source-code search engine. Functional matrix algorithms, quadtrees, and APL. AI programming in Python. The Open Automaton robot project.
July 2005 an AI alphabet.
June 2005: Neural Gases - principles and applications of "neural gas" networks; Qualitative Reasoning, Cognitive Models in Education, Economic Reasoning - general essay linking these themes; Serious and Humerous Aspects of Programming - serious stuff includes higher-order programming in Perl, and aspects of Lisp.
May 2005 spreadsheet issue featuring Model Master, Scheme, ZigZag and others, and Amzi!'s new ARulesXL.
April 2005: intelligence, detail, Tennyson and style.
March 2005: neural nets, logical languages and Shrdlu.
February 2005: nano robots, computational ant hills, StarLogo, Mindstorms, computational creativity with Copycat, inductive logic programming with Aleph and more.
January 2005: an AI alphabet.
December 2004: training rat neurons to fly a jet simulator, the World mind, Doug Adams and a Ronald Reagan simulator, and programming Sony's Aibo robot dog.
November 2004: science fiction, robots as insects, evolutionary computing, and adding functional programming to Prolog.
8th February 2008