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The Turing Test was proposed by Alan Turing in 1950; he called it the Imitation Game. In 1991 Hugh Loebner started the Loebner Prize competition, offering a $100,000 prize to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing test. Annual competitions are held each year with smaller prizes for the best program on a restricted Turing test. This paper describes the development of one such Turing System, including the technical design of the program and its performance on the first three Loebner Prize competitions. We also discuss the program's four year development effort, which has depended heavily on constant interaction with people on the Internet via Tinymuds (multiuser network communication servers that are a cross between role-playing games and computer forums like CompuServe). Finally, we discuss the design of the Loebner competition itself, and address its usefulness in furthering the development of Artificial Intelligence., blogmarks.net

The home of a new lightweight operating system wattos Our message is simple Light - Fast - Now Use your computers in a lightweight but fully featured way using less energy. The operating will run on low power computers and recycled systems keeping you working and playing with all the features you expect.. It will be fast and easy, and now is the right time to rethink our energy use and computers in our daily lives. There will be three desktop versions wattOS - The core desktop system using a fully featured Gnome desktop mWattOS - Milliwatt a smaller desktop system using XFCE as the core interface. (known as mWOS) µWattOS - Microwatt an even smaller desktop utilizing a minimal desktop GUI or command line. Ideal for appliances, small systems, kiosks, or old computers., blogmarks.net

bare-bones PHP application, for browsing and playing music videos, so you can see some of the cool things you can do with the Music API., blogmarks.net

The source reference documents for the D20 Modern Role playing game, including future and arcana, all released under the Open Game License., blogmarks.net

A good collection of tools for role playing games, including a wide selection of character sheets for many many different systems., blogmarks.net

YouTube captioner This is an example how you can use the YouTube JavaScript API to create a captioning interface for YouTube Videos. Start playing the video below and hit the pause button - you will get a form field with the timestamp each time you stop the video. When you hit the "get transcript" button the PHP script on the server will assemble a JSON object of the entered data. Check the accompanying blog post Video captioning made easy with the YouTube JavaScript API for more information., blogmarks.net

After reading Dave Shea's article on CSS Sprites using jQuery to produce animation effects, I felt like playing around with things to see what could be done but accomplish it with a simpler HTML structure and simpler code., blogmarks.net

Although there are no new issues, the magazine is a good resource for role players that use the very versatile and free Fudge role playing system., blogmarks.net