The ATT-CMUnited-2000 simulator team nished in third place at Robocup2000. It was one of only three teams to nish ahead of the previous year's champion, CMUnited-99. In controlled experiments, ATT-CMUnited-2000 beats CMUnited-99 by an average score of 2.6{0.2. ATT-CMUnited-2000 is based upon CMUnited-99 [4], which in turn is based on CMUnited-98 [5]. In particular, it uses many of the technique...

Students can gain valuable knowledge through engagement with real life examples of planning issues and their resolution. This exposure, however, often remains quite limited to that of the urban context within which they are situated. Lessons learnt are often heavily biased by the urban setting and the prevalent cultural values and attitudes and therefore may not readily contribute to producing ...

An abbreviated case study in narrative form of a weblog is presented. Preliminary observations in an ongoing longitudinal study suggest that the blog, whose discourse engages in the niche interest area of film music appreciation, is a representative example of an emergent social network dubbed in sociological terms as a “third place.” This is deemed to be an unanticipated consequence for a medi...

During pauses in exploration, ensembles of place cells in the rat hippocampus re-express firing sequences corresponding to recent spatial experience. Such "replay" co-occurs with ripple events: short-lasting (approximately 50-120 ms), high-frequency (approximately 200 Hz) oscillations that are associated with increased hippocampal-cortical communication. In previous studies, rats exploring smal...