Adventures of a dinosaur hunter

Data Adventures

This paper outlines a system for generating adventure games based on open data, and describes a sketch of the system implementation at its current state. The adventure game genre has been popular for a long time and differs significantly in design priorities from game genres which are commonly addressed in PCG research. In order to create believable and engaging content, we use data from DBpedi...

Dinosaur In a Haystack

DIH 1. Happy Thoughts on a Sunny Day in New York City ............................................. 1 DIH 2. Dousing Diminutive Dennis’s Debate (or DDDD = 2000) .................................... 2 DIH 3. The Celestial Mechanic and the Earthly Naturalist ................................................ 3 DIH 4. The Late Birth of a Flat Earth ......................................................

Adventures of Abstraction

In view of the confusion that exists in the 20th century with regard to the meaning of “abstraction” and “abstract” it is necessary to begin by recalling what is genuine abstraction and by stating what should be expected from a theory of abstraction today (section 1). Since Boethius and till the late 19th century abstraction enjoyed a peaceful life (except for some attacks from the British empi...

T-rex Not a Dinosaur!

The amazing adventures of robotrat.

By using electrical brain stimulation to deliver both 'virtual' tactile cues and rewards to freely roaming rats, Talwar et al. have been able to instruct animals remotely to navigate through complex mazes and natural environments they have never visited before. These results provide both an elegant alternative way to train animals and a new approach to study basic neurophysiological principles ...