According to the market research firm Global Industry Analysts, each year 84 million people spend $1,000 or more on family history research [8]. Ancestry CEO Tim Sullivan reported over two million paying customers at the world’s most popular commercial genealogy website [7]. Family Tree Maker, the leading producer of genealogical desktop software has shipped approximately 2 million units since ...

In this paper, we present classroom strategies for teaching kinematics at middle and high school levels, using Rovio’s famous game Angry Birds and the video analyser software Tracker. We show how to take advantage of this entertaining video game, by recording appropriate motions of birds that students can explore by manipulating data, characterizing the red bird’s motion and fitting results to ...

The Angry Birds AI Competition has been held annually since 2012 in conjunction with some of the major AI conferences, most recently with IJCAI 2015. The goal of the competition is to build AI agents that can play new Angry Birds levels as good as or better than the best human players. Successful agents should be able to quickly analyze new levels and to predict physical consequences of possibl...

In this paper, we present a CBR approach for implementing an agent playing the well-known Angry Birds game. We adopt a preference-based procedure for constructing the case base, collecting experience from a random agent that continually explores the problemsolution space and improves the quality of already found solutions. As the retrieve phase involves finding a game scene similar to a given o...

Angry Birds is a popular video game where the task is to kill pigs protected by a structure composed of different building blocks that observe the laws of physics. The structure can be destroyed by shooting the angry birds at it. The fewer birds we use and the more blocks we destroy, the higher the score. One approach to solve the game is by analysing the structure and identifying its strength ...

Over the past few years the Angry Birds AI competition has been held in an attempt to develop intelligent agents that can successfully and efficiently solve levels for the video game Angry Birds. Many different agents and strategies have been developed to solve the complex and challenging physical reasoning problems associated with such a game. However, the performance of these various agents i...