Monthly Archives: February 2014

Privacy – Examples of Misuse of Private Data

We are in an age of “Big Data”, “Open Data” and the intended and unintended sharing and misuse of such data. This blog post is intended to collect some examples and notes to contribute to the task of informing the … Continue reading

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Coursera AI Planning MOOC Statistics 2014

This post shows data for the Coursera AI Planning MOOC 2014 session taught by Gerhard Wickler and Austin Tate of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. The MOOC ran from January to March 2014. Passes at Each … Continue reading

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KSCO Working Group Meeting 20-Feb-2014

The Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (KSCO) working group met in Edinburgh and via telecom on 20th February 2014. Attending were: Prof. Jitu Patel, Dstl, UK [KSCO Chairman] Dr. Niranjan Suri, IHMC, Florida, USA [KSCO-2012 Organiser] Prof. Austin Tate, AIAI, … Continue reading

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Web We Want – The Day We Fight Back

I am the Director of AIAI which is part of the University of Edinburgh and grew out of the Artificial Intelligence Department at Edinburgh. In the early 19790 we hosted a DEC-10 mainframe for UK AI research as one of … Continue reading

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AI Planning Course on University Moodle VLE

AI Planning is a masters level course taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics by Gerhard Wickler and Austin Tate. A version has been prepared for on-line and distance education uses and it has been presented as a … Continue reading

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Coursera AI Planning MOOC – Fourth Virtual World Meeting

The fourth meeting of the AI Planning MOOC group took place in Second Life on the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) facilities on 9th February 2013. 12 people attended in total. The group viewed Peter Carragher’s Creative Challenge submission on … Continue reading

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World of Warcraft – Aithun the Dwarf

Its been quite some time since I checked on how Aithun the Dwarf and his companion bear, Morro, were getting on in World of Warcraft… They were still staying at their Hearthstone Inn – the Lion’s Pride Inn in Goldshire … Continue reading

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