Alexander Williams

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Ok, so here's where I tell all about how I (now we) got to be tied for third place on the netflix prize. And I don't mean a sordid tale of computing in the jungle, but rather the actual math more...

Quake 3 is a great place to start for developers wanting to look into commercial AI. It’s certainly not a trivial implementation, but it’s probably as simple as you can make a fully featured AI engine and ship it in more...

A.I. Fighter is a 3D beat-'em-up style fighting game in which the player will control a fighter using the keyboard and engage the computer's fighter over a short duration. It is created for us to test out training of computer more...

Lisa is a production-rule system implemented in the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), and is heavily influenced by CLIPS and the Java Expert System Shell (JESS). At its core is a reasoning engine based on an object-oriented implementation of the more...

The results for the Music Recommender Turing Test challenge are in! In this challenge, I posed the question - "Can you tell which music recommendation was generated by a human, and which was generated by a machine?". Two recommendation lists more...

Turn based strategy game in a post-apocalyptic setting versus 1 to 3 AI opponents. Hexagonal maps depicting the ravaged wastes of earth circa 2345 featuring 3 map sizes ranging from normal to huge. 4 playable factions each with unique units, more...

Using simple rules, traffic lights are able to self-organize and adapt to changing traffic conditions, reducing waiting times, stopped cars, and increasing average speeds. Even when the scenario simplifies real traffic, results are very promising, and enc

Can a Bayesian spam filter learn to play chess?

The original 20 Questions neural-net