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09/05/2005 17:20:38	Competition Closed Posted by James Matthews
	The AIBO competition is now closed, and I'll be looking over submissions over the next week or two and will announce the results then. Keep your fingers crossed! Full Posting
08/04/2005 16:28:19	Site Update Posted by James Matthews
	Contrary to popular belief, I'm not dead - more in transition! :) I really am sorry for the lack of updates, but I'm still adjusting to life at work and the temporary lack of an internet connection at home is another limiting factor. I know these lapses in updates annoy people, so I'm looking for 3-4 people who would be interested in posting news items on Generation5 themselves (i.e., through the site's administration interface, not by e-mailing me!). On another more exciting note, I've been waiting for the AIBO competition threshold to be reached, but since I've been so lazy updating Generation5 - I'll give something back! So, I hereby announce the AIBO competition will close at midnight (BST) on Sunday May 8th. I will then judge the best articles submitted, and dish out the prizes - including a ERS-111 AIBO! So please, if you have considered writing an article for Generation5, now is definitely the time to do it. Sorry to all again for the delays in updating the site...watch this space. Full Posting
06/02/2005 23:41:35	Large Update Posted by James Matthews
	Finally got my backside into gear and done that update I've been meaning to do for a while. Five new excellent articles uploaded, and some of my inbox cleared out: Sex and the single robot - A series of artificial chromosomes have been developed in Korea! Towards a truly clever Artificial Intelligence - Writing a computer program as a geometrical structure? MIT Media Lab Europe: An Obituary - The MIT Media Labs in Dublin closes down. Shame. Household Emergent Behavior? - An interesting Slashdot posting, good food-for-thought. Thinking Machines - For A.I. researchers, narrowing the cognitive gap between humans, computers is the big goal. U.S. Army Prepares Armed 'Robo-Soldier' for Iraq - Two-page Technology Review article. The Ascent of the Robotic Attack Jet - A long three-page article on the future of autonomous aircraft. Full Posting
21/01/2005 20:26:15	Situational Update Posted by James Matthews
	I thought it was best I updated the front page to give you guys a good idea about the current situation. I am currently holding back from updating Generation5 for several reasons: firstly, I am away in Seattle which has made it unexpectedly hard to update the main page and upload the new articles I've been sent. Secondly, having just started a new job there are a variety of factors that are delaying everything - so please, please bear with me. I have some fantastic new articles to upload and lots of news which I will hopefully have up by the end of next week. Watch this space... Full Posting
02/01/2005 11:57:35	Happy New Year Posted by James Matthews
	Just a short post to wish you all a happy new year. I'm hoping 2005 will be as successful as 2004 for Generation5, with more new articles, competitions and interviews to come. Our AIBO competition is now very close to hitting its target number of submissions -- meaning some lucky winner will have their own AIBO soon. Keep those submissions coming. I'm also hoping this year will seen the 1.0 release of the Generation5 JDK and it's proliferation within AI communities. As always, Generation5 is a community site and as such I am always wanting feedback and suggestions. Full Posting
27/12/2004 22:42:29	New JDK Release Posted by James Matthews
	I'm very sorry for the lack of updates, various reasons: Christmas and New Years, as well as relocation down to Reading, and preparation for a new job in 2005! Nevertheless, I've used this period to cram in as much as I can, and I've released or updated four new articles, most of which are tied into the new release of the Generation5 JDK. The new JDK has a huge number of new features: Hough transforms, noise (impulse and Gaussian), rank filtering, improved histogram class, improved Sobel edge detector, ONR now as demonstration applet, support for board games and simple AI agents, influence maps, and a greatly improved KohonenNN class. Check out the demonstrations, especially if you've not seen them before! Anyway, I'm hoping to do another big news and article update within the next few days before 2005 is upon us. Again, my apologizes for the sporadic updating. Full Posting
03/12/2004 23:57:56	C3PO, JDK and Your Feedback Posted by James Matthews
	This week has been an incredibly busy week for Generation5. Not only have I had the chance to interview Anthony Daniels, the actor who plays C3PO in Star Wars, but have been feverishly working on another real update of the Generation5 JDK. The last release was a little rushed, but this next release will include much-improved, documented and organized demonstrations, more complete Javadoc, Hough transforms, and numerous bug fixes and tweaks. I'm hoping to bring out 2-3 tie-in articles too. On top of that, I have about 3 submitted articles waiting to be uploaded, and I'm working to bring you 3 or 4 new reviews by next week. All-in-all, watch this space! This said, I'm looking for a little feedback regarding Generation5's news. AI and robotics seems to almost saturate the news, in ways it never did when Generation5 first started up six years ago. Therefore, where would you like to see Generation5's news heading? Should Generation5 be more particular about the news it posts, not bother reprinting widely published articles such as those posted on Slashdot or keep soldiering on the way we are? I'd be very interested to hear any of your thoughts. Full Posting
26/11/2004 22:12:26	Latest JDK Release Uploaded Posted by James Matthews
	I have uploaded the latest release of the JDK, with some nifty new features (from the Generation5 JDK site): Time series classes to automatically (or manually) snapshot `Visualizable`-implementing classes or `BufferedImage`s. Feedforward networks, neural network trainers and a dedicated `org.generation5.nn` package. Improved histogram and plotting classes. Expanded machine vision with convolution, histogram equalization, and bug fixes. WireWorld cellular automata applet, machine vision demonstration applet. Numerous bug fixes. Check out the two new demonstrations as well as the new screenshots. SourceForge has also been updated with latest zip files of the source, demo source and Javadoc. Full Posting
26/11/2004 22:10:30	Mars Rescue Mission Challenge Posted by James Matthews
	Thomas Karcher sent me this: "There's quite an interesting programming contest by Dr. Dobb's Journal and Frank Buß called "Mars Rescue Mission Challenge". Although the best possible solution was already found within a couple of days, it might be interesting to find other solutions utilising AI algorithms. Full Posting
26/11/2004 22:09:40	Weekly Links Posted by James Matthews
	A few more intriguing articles that are worth a mention today: Shape-shifting robot shows off its moves - An interesting New Scientist article. Self-Navigating Vehicle - Progress is logical: from audible warnings to vehicles that respond to user commands with door-to-door service. KAIST to Unveil Self-Regulated 2-Legged Robot This Year - The KHR-3 is on the horizon. Computers as Authors? Literary Luddites Unite! - NY Times article. Full Posting