I expect that this is probably the year I'll need to consider how my profession will change if students start…
The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious artificial intelligence website allow him…
A student newspaper article about interactive fiction (quoting Emily Short and me) Blaming Roget's Thesaurus Finding the URL of a…
I was honored to play Alquist in Artistic Prosperity's virtual production of RUR over the summer. I'm glad to see…
Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers at its Microsoft News and MSN organizations. The layoffs are…
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. Data's autonomy is at stake in a taut, character-driven courtroom drama that resists pandering…
Sounds like a typical grad school seminar. https://youtu.be/vphmJEpLXU0
This will be my self-reward when I finish all my obligations for the term. For the uninitiated, here’s the rundown.…
In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland…
Honestly, this does not sound good. In the short term, it will only be possible to alter the "flavor text"…
(A transcription of the text and scans of photos from a 1972 magazine article about the legendary space combat computer…
It's not really a grading tool, but it might be worth introducing into the writing process. I'm running a paper…
Journalism is changing. Watchdog journalism -- the perusal of thousands of pages of official records in search of anomalies and…
Great 1972 Rolling Stone article about a foundational computer game. Reliably, at any nighttime moment (i.e. non-business hours) in North…
Efforts are afoot to not only make IF more accessible, but to make it more modern and attractive in appearance.…
I take the view that computer languages, robot ethics, method acting, and biomechanics are the main ingredients that fused, in…
The implications of scalable theory have been far-reaching and pervasive. In fact, few end-users would disagree with the deployment of…
just finished a draft of an encyclopedia entry about "artificial intelligence." It's for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory and…
John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project: Hey, this is John speaking...Who're you? [Enter your first name below] > Dennis Nice to…