Bringing a little drama to social games
A veteran group of researchers, and not so veteran, from MIT are taking another stab at artificial intelligence (AI). Reading the article from MIT news it initially sounds like they’re taking a new approach, but the further you read the more it falls into the grandiose promises made earlier in AI’s 50 year history. Such as Herbert [...]
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Ken Auletta, author of ”Googled: The End of the World As We Know It“, recently put out an addendum which he titled Media Maxims. Two maxims caught my eye, Digital is different and Don’t think of the Web as another distribution platform. I agree with much of what Auletta is saying, however I don’t think he is [...]
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With 3D sneaking into the browser via Google’s O3D and WebGL many pose the question – is the web going to be 2D or 3D? Some are so confused they ask if social networks will evolve into virtual worlds like Second Life? This reminds me of a time when communicating with a computer was a [...]
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Reading The Pixar Touch I found it consoling how there was a time when computer animation was considered the lunatic fringe. The term showed up in a quote about Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios. “Computer animation was sort of on the lunatic fringe at that time,” said Fred Parke, a fellow Ph. D. student in [...]
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A Senior Product Manager at Playdom I build social games by day and experiment with interactive drama at night, all while trying to write the great American screenplay.