More about me

I am currently at the end of my masters in Artificial Intelligence. When I began in Jan 2006, I really wanted to build a robot. I had a look at LEGO's Mindstorms but back then it was incredibly basic and fairly unheard of.

So my supervisor convinced me to do simulated robotics. I had no idea what was ahead of me for the next two years. I developed a graphics engine in DirectX, but that got as far as a sky box with a floating tiger mesh.

Well, it was a relief to see that Microsoft has now done all the work that I need not do. I have looked all over the show and trust me - there is one way to go, at least for now. This is free for academics, ready for rapid development (.NET framework) and is cutting edge.

Anyway, my topic is, in a nutshell: Developing specialized software to enable generic intelligence objects to be embedded inside simulated robotic agents, within a multi-agent context. It gets me no where with the ladies ;P

So the robots are not the most important part. However the very architecture of the MRDS is suited to my topic. The DSS and CCR runtimes both deal with distributed asynchronous objects, which I am going to apply to objects that enable intelligence. My masters is pretty large.

But I am close to finishing. I have all the theory on paper and I am now beginning the practical leg. I am hoping that by learning the MRDS framework that I am opening new doors for myself academically. My hope is to open a door in my lecturing career (and possibly PhD).