Welcome to the sixth OpenCog recap. It's an exciting time to be in the project.
1) OpenCog student project
A team of students in Sri Lanka have decided to work on OpenCog for
their fourth-year project. They'll be working on the
http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Unified_rule_engine. They're from the
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Their names are:
* Nirmal Fernando
* Nisansa de Silva
* Chamilka Wijeratne
* Danaja Maldeniya
2) Genifer ideas
Yan King Yin is running an AGI project called Genifer. There have been
a lot of interesting discussions on their list lately
(http://groups.google.com/group/general-intelligence/). They're
considering joining forces with OpenCog, and have had lots of
interesting ideas that we may be able to integrate into OpenCog. For
example, a way of combining Bayesian networks with backward chaining
logic.
3) PLN overview docs
Ben made a list of good publications to read if you want to understand
the concepts behind PLN. (It was in an email on the genifer list, but
I copied it to http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Publications#PLN).
I also wrote a guide to using the new version of the PLN test system,
which comes with lots of examples that can easily be run from the
cogserver shell. See http://wiki.opencog.org/w/PLN_usage.
4) OpenCog robot
There's a video of an OpenCog navigating Nao robot, at
http://blog.opencog.org/2010/09/22/nao-navigation/
5) SFD talk
Joel gave a talk about OpenCog at Victoria University, Wellington NZ
for Software Freedom Day.
http://sfdnz.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/wellington-sneak-peek-joel-pitt/
6) Joel's work
Joel has been setting up the new OpenCog server, including a BuildBot
with coverage testing. Also improving the OpenCog Web UI, and adding
support for ANSI colour in the OpenCog telnet shell.
7) Nil's work on MOSES
Nil has been continuing his work on MOSES, including improving
Distributed MOSES and testing the multiplex problem.
8) Jared's work
I've done various work on PLN, see my work log at
http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Jared's_work_log#September_2
Expect the Big Announcement soon.
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Jared Wigmore <jared.wigm...@gmail.com>
