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  • The Avengers

    Almer S. Tigelaar 11 / 05 / 2012

    Marvel teased us with the release of this film near the end of various previously released super hero flicks like Captain America and Iron Man 2. This would be the movie that unites all the super heroes from the Marvel universe. Well actually, only those that had not been previously licensed to other studios. Hence, you will not find characters from X-Men, Spiderman, or the Fantastic Four in this movie. Director Joss Whedon brings back fond memories of creative television series like Firefly and Dollhouse, but what does he make of a 220 million blockbuster production?

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  • Hugo

    Almer S. Tigelaar 06 / 03 / 2012

    Hugo is based on a relatively recently released (2007) award winning book by Brian Selznick. It is not surprising that the film rights to the books were quickly sold, and certainly not by the least of directors either: Martin Scorsese. He has a career spanning decades and has directed a string of movies in recent years which I liked, among which are Shutter Island, The Departed and Gangs of New York. However, those were admittedly all in different, less family friendly, genres. So, I went to Hugo hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

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  • How long would it take to read Wikipedia?

    Almer S. Tigelaar 21 / 02 / 2012

    Wikipedia has become the de facto encyclopedia on the Internet. A traditional encyclopedia spans many textbook volumes which would take any normal person ages to read. Few people would likely engage in such an endeavor. However, since Wikipedia is readily accessible: should you take up the challenge?

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Monthly Archives: October 2008

DEIRA: A Dynamic Engaging Intelligent Reporter Agent (demo paper)

Almer S. Tigelaar 10 / 10 / 2008, 10:00

DEIRA: A Dynamic Engaging Intelligent Reporter Agent (demo paper)
Knoppel, F. L. A. & Tigelaar, A. S. & Oude Bos, D. & Alofs, T.
In Proceedings of BNAIC 2008, Enschede, The Netherlands (pp. 393-394).

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Abstract
DEIRA is an embodied agent with a highly modular design, supporting several domains such as real time virtual horse race commentary, robosoccer commentary and virtual storytelling. Domain-specific information is processed to have the agent act on emotion and produce a compelling report on the situation, using synthesized speech and facial expressions. This paper briefly describes the features of the agent.

Presented at Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2008 on October 18th 2008 in Enschede, The Netherlands.

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