This page collects the stuff I mentioined in my Powerpoint Presentation at Cary Academy:

"A.I.: Will Those Evil Robots Win?"

 

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED (and totally FREE!):

"ALICE" - a virtual world / robot builder for middle/high schoolers

RoboCup - World Cup for soccer-playing robots:

All RoboCup 2005 Videos (dogs are the "four legged league")

RoboCup Official Web Site

Turing and his Machines (paper towels and napkins in our case):

Wikipedia Entry for Alan Turing

A fun web applet Turing Machine

Details of the one we did in class

Examples of Turing Machines

College-level Intro to Turing Machines

Artificial Intelligence in General:

A.I. - A Modern Approach (one stop site for all AI)

Common Sense Reasoning:

CYC

The Semantic Web (a.k.a. Web 2.0)

Evil Robots in General:

Evil Robot Top Ten

Blade Runner (Movie)

Marvin The Paranoid Android

Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy - On-line Game Applet

Virtual Humans:

Eliza the Therapist - Web Applet

Sargent Blackwell of ICT

Carmen's Bright Ideas

NC State A.I. and Video Games:

Liquid Narrative Research Group

Intellimedia Research Group

Computer Science Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Google Puzzles and News:

GLAT - Google Labs Aptitude Test (w/ answers)

Google Billboard Story

Google's Founders

Google Millionaire Story (please multiply all dollar amounts by 6 as GOOG now trades at 470)

DARPA Challenge (Robot Cars):

NCSU's 2007 Entry - Technician Article

NCSU Lotus Elise

DARPA's Official Site

2005 - Desert Challenge Videos

Mars Rovers (otherworldy robots):

Official MER Site

Mars Videos