Microsoft has published a scientific research paper ([PDF] Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images (Microsoft Research)) detailing how Microsoft Kinect’s body tracking algorithm works. There is also a video (Kinect Research (youtube.com)) to go along with it. Also, I came across a separate article (Kinect’s AI breakthrough explained (I-Programmer.info)) which summaries [...]

It’s (almost) time for the Google A.I. Challenge for 2011 already! Check out the official github page for detailed information on the contest, examples, forums, and more. The 2011 Challenge is about ants looking for food on a map and fighting against ants by the opponent. The contest hasn’t started quite yet, but you can [...]

SVN (Apache Subversion) has been around for about 11 years now (initial release: October 20, 2000). It was originally meant to be mostly compatible with and a successor to CVS (Concurrent Versions System). It has succeed as such and is one of the most widely used software version control systems in existence. However, in modern [...]