Computer Generated

Videogames getting minds of their own (AFP via Yahoo! News)

20 Jul 2008

Videogames are getting smarter with virtual enemies improvising during battles, storylines shifting based on moral choices and in-game characters sending players text messages for help.

On Campus: New Web site all about geology (Wisconsin State Journal)

20 Jul 2008

A new Web site is under construction to be a Wisconsin geologic Wikipedia of sorts, with user-generated content about rock exposures, fossils, sinkholes and more across the state. Called the Wisconsin Geologic Record, the site is being created by geologists at UW-Richland, UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. "It 's the first of its kind anywhere as far as we know, ...

A Recent History of Writing and Drawing, ICA, London (Independent)

20 Jul 2008

The risky thing about newness is how old it can suddenly seem. Hardly a decade ago, the Turner Prize-winning artist, Keith Tyson, began taking orders from a tyrannical object he dubbed The Artmachine. Whether this infernal apparatus actually existed – no one ever saw it – hardly matters. In Tyson's telling, the Artmachine generated algorithms, and these algorithms – a type of self-perpetuating ...