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Singing Computers Nellie & the Drummers are a new concept in multimedia and pop music, cyberpop 2000, a computer created rock band combining computer-generated vocals, MIDI based computer-generated music, and 3D animated characters, with Quicktime movies and songs in mp3 and RealAudio streaming audio. All audio and video are generated on the desktop. Listen to some songs by Nellie and the Drummers, popular cyberpersonalities. You can find a whole selection of CD-ROM game songs. The music covers a broad range of styles, but all are computer generated, with synthesized vocal tracks. Warning: The songs all require RealPlayer, and unfortunately, you know what that means.
Some Robot & Robotics Links & Stuff:
TAB Books on Robotics Dallas Personal Robotics Group Robots.net	There is a huge collection of links related to robots and robitics on the DPRG site.
The Art and Science of Sociable Machines Cynthia Breazeal , MIT Media Lab, and her robot, *Kismet are helping to take the fiction out of science fiction. Robots with expressions, emotions, and personalities are quickly becoming reality. Cynthia gives an overview of current projects and allows us to peer through the looking glass with video of some amazing robots. See the complete video or hear the audio (MP3) of her presentation on Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast web sire. USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2001. [2001-10-03] (1:00:00)
Robot Guard-Dragon Unveiled in Japan 13:20 14 November 02 This guy roans your house on the lookout for intruders or smoke. If sensed, the Gaurd-Dragon can "scream" to wake you up or phone you on your mobile phone, too. In "pet mode", though, it can obey your commands to "sit" or "shake", for exmaple. Sanyo and Tmusk plan to start taking pre-orders in December, and to start sell an initial batch of 50 of the robots for about $16,400 next year. Read the article by New Scientist.

QuickTime VR International QuickTime Virtual Reality Association
Panotools is Prof. Helmut Dersch's free stitching/remapping software. Versions are available for PC, Linux, and Mac OS 9 but not OS X. Includes Photoshop filters. Helmut's website is currently down. If you cannot find a version elsewhere, let me know, and I will help.	PTMac is an excellent GUI for Panotools. There are both OS 9 and OS X versions available. PTMac truly makes Panotools far easier to use. There are also several Photoshop 7 filters for OS X available. PTMac is the only Macintosh front end for creating panoramas using the powerful free GPL licensed Panorama Tools package. Users can create a wide variety of panorama types (spherical, cubic, cylindrical, flat, etc.) from almost any lens type including fisheye, normal and even computer generated images.

SmartHomes, SmartTVs, Whole-House A/V, etc.

Some Talking Heads & CyberPersonalities
ANANOVA
Ananova's video FAQ in four languages There are always plenty of questions about Ananova: Why a talking head? Why a woman? Why the green hair? What's her future?
Max Headroom is currently airing on TechTV as of Aug, 2002.

Related Movies
Lookers This just has to be one of the earliest movies with a basic theme centered around personality capture and digital immortality.

Whatever Happened to the Cyber Revolution? A special issue in two parts, featuring articles by R.U. Sirius, Brenda laurel, Mark Pesce, Doug Rushkoff, Gregory Pleshaw, and Richard Kadrey. Whatever Happened to Mondo 2000’s Cyber Revolution? One fearless leader investigates by R.U. Sirius

Related Books

Miscellaneous Links to Non-Miscellaneous Stuff
Prolog Programming: A First Course by Paul Brna Ch 1 and more: Full Table of Contents Ch 4: Introduction Ch 5: Knowledge Representation Ch 6: Prolog's Search Strategy Ch 7: Unification, Recursion and Lists Ch 8: The Box Model of Execution Ch 9: Interlude: Practical Matters Ch 10: Programming Techniques and List Processing Ch 11: Control and Negation Ch 12: Parsing in Prolog Ch 13: Modifying the Search Space Ch 14: Prolog Syntax Ch 15: Another Interlude: Input/Output Ch 16: Operators Ch 17: Advanced Features
A.L.I.C.E.
A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation ALICE Bot and AIML Documentation AIML Primer AIML Reference Manual Getting Started with Program D	Chapter 00: The Anatomy of A.L.I.C.E. Dr. Richard S. Wallace A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation, Inc.
This plot of the patterns from Atomic.aiml shows only 1/4 of the Graphmaster graph. The yellow circles indicate <terminal> nodes and the magenta are nodes with a <template>. You can see this and other visually revealing plots at the A.L.I.C.E. Brain Picture Gallery.