What authoring possibilities arise by blending machine and human control of live embodied character experiences? This paper explores two different “behind-the-scenes” roles for human operators during a three-month gallery installation of an embodied character experience. In the Transcription role, human operators type players’ spoken utterances; then, algorithms interpret the player’s intention...

T HE WALTER AND ELIZA HALL Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia is probably the world’s best known research center devoted to the study of immunology. This recognit ion was gained under the leadership of its third director, Sir Frank Macfar lane Burnet, who headed the Institute from 1944 to 1965. Subsequent ly, the Institute has shown explosive growth under the leadership of it...

1Population Health and Immunity, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia 2Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia 3School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia 4Departamento de Biomateriales y Materiales Bioinspirados, Instituto de Ciencia de Mat...

The colony-stimulating factors (CSF) are the master regulators of granulocyte and macrophage populations. There are four different aspects of the connection between the CSFs and cancer: (i) the CSFs can accelerate the regeneration of protective white cells damaged by chemotherapy; (ii) the CSFs can mobilize stem cells to the peripheral blood in convenient numbers for transplantation; (iii) the ...

As judged by widespread utility in protein production from recombinant Escherichia coli and by the magnitude of royalty payments to Melbourne’s Walter & Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), the expression vector pGEX, invented by Dr Donald Smith, has been a significant commercial success. It is based on the 26kDa glutathione S-transferase of Schistosoma japonicum (Philippines) termed Sj26GST, that emer...

Johannes Bos University of Utrecht David Botstein Stanford University School of Medicine Jeff Chamberlain University of Michigan Medical School Henry Erlich Cetus Corporation Kenshi Hayashi National Cancer Research Institute, Tokyo Bernhard Horsthemke University of Essen Pieter de Jong Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory David Kemp Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Kenneth ...

This paper introduces the IRIS mobile robot project. IRIS is a largely student designed and implemented mobile robot platform created to provide a mechanism for classroom explorations of topics in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and robotics. It has been designed to be used by students from middle school through college. Teaching About Intelligence Anyone who has taught artificial i...