Daily Archives: December 17, 2004

ActiveBuddy’s Patent Win Riles IM Bot Developers

New York-based ActiveBuddy has won a crucial patent covering instant messaging bot-making technology, but hobbyists and amateur developers aren’t buying the company’s claim that it invented the technology. Sounds “acacia”-esque. . .

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History of Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Intelligent tutors fall under a general category of “adaptive-response” teaching systems. The earliest adaptive response systems were developed in the 1960′s, and sometimes referred to as programmed learning systems. Generally, intelligent tutors have the following components: Article mentions that not … Continue reading

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Is it an Agent or just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents

“The advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is, and of how they differ from programs in general. Here we propose a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a … Continue reading

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Faber’s Euphonia

Early Bot

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Lifelong Learning: The Postmodern Condition of Education?

” Abstract: In this paper, we argue that moves to reconfigure the education of adults as a dimension of lifelong learning signify a postmodern condition of education. In particular, we suggest that lifelong learning contributes to performativity and a loss … Continue reading

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http://fragment.nl/mirror/Cherny/The_modal_complexity.txt

“Abstract. The availability of the emote modality, combined with social responses to object and room-persistence in MUDs, creates a more structured and flexible communication environment than is found in other single modality chat programs. The emote command is used for … Continue reading

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E-Learning Frameworks and Tools: Is it too late? – The Director’s Cut

…”I consider what is likely to happen when the JISC’s vision as promulgated in the various documents and calls supporting both the JISC E-Learning Programme and the JISC Information Environment meets the reality of e-learning infrastructures as already being built … Continue reading

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Understanding Online Interaction — wiley.ed.usu.edu

An Interesting eCourse on online interaction. . .covers blogs, fan fiction, moos and muds, and more.

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