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The Game Servers have run over 250,000 games during the duration of the AIFG course. We have also produced a Pocket PC version of the virus game and there are already plans for a second version of the Academic Terrarium.

Robert

Feedback on the AI for Games module at the University of Bradford has been excellent, with some students reporting it their favourite part of the curriculum. The favourite part has been producing bugs for the Academic Version of Terrarium.

Robert

Last night we had the end of conference meal, followed by a group (Peter Drayton & Ian Palmer) of us playing TransAmerica into the wee hours.  The presentation was well received despite Peter overrunning 🙂

Robert

The food for Wednesdays evening meal was not the best, however the company was very interesting. I talked with Paul Rhodes and Peter Cowling from the University of Bradford and Peter Drayton who is on the Rotor team.

Robert

I have just attended a very interesting talk by Christopher Bishop (MSR Cambridge http://research.microsoft.com/~cmbishop ) about Machine Learning. He covered “Super-resolution enhancement of pictures” which is adding information to an image using an offset image or human determined perspective. Intelligent Edit and Removal of information from pictures and face tracking. I highly recommend attending a presentation by him. The features discussed will be present in a soon to be released Microsoft product.

Robert

We are currently in sunny ( it’s raining ) Dublin for Microsoft Research Academic days. I have met up with Peter Cowling, Paul Rhodes from the University of Bradford and our Talk for Friday on AI for Games has been finished so we can relax and enjoy the conference.

Robert

 

Black Marble was invited to present alongside the University of Bradford at a Microsoft Research Conference in Dublin. Robert Hogg of Black Marble presented with Peter Cowling of the University of Bradford, on the Use of Viruses and Bugs to Teach Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programming using C# .NET.

Linda

Black Marble spent half a day explaining Microsoft CRM to local businesses, and many were impressed by its features.

I have moved out blogs to a new server, so please use the URL http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/bm-bloggers as opposed to the old http://sabs.blackmarble.co.uk/bm-bloggers.

I have put a redirection on the old address, but I don’t know how RSS will like that !

Further to my broadband and authentication post I have found a problem using Crystal Enterprise via HTTPS.

If I connect a Microsoft CRM website via HTTP and then use the links in the product to a Crystal report all is fine. However if I use HTTPS then I get the rarther common ‘Microsoft CRM Crystal Reports Logon Error. Please Verify That You Have Enough Crystal Licenses’ error. Just check out the newsgroups to see how many people are getting the same problem.

I think this issue is in the WCS confiiguration for Crystal, I tried playing with setting but to no effect this far. Now for me knowing this is an issue is enough, I can work round it and have a bit more of a look later and keep the world informed

Richard