Archive for the 'Game' Category

Saturday! Game Day in Glendora

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Sorry for the short notice, but if you’re in the Los Angeles area on Saturday July 12, then please come to the Game Day I’m having in cooperation with the Glendora Public Library. Drop in with your favorite game, puzzle or brain teaser, or play one of the many we will have here. Doors open […]

Portal: Still Alive

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Last weekend I went to a conference where some had brought an XBox 360 with the first-person puzzle game Portal. I got to see it played all the way though, and I still want to play it myself, which is saying something. The end of the game had a wonderful surprise as the credits roll: […]

Game Day Six

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

If you’re going to be in the Los Angeles area on Saturday, June 30, you’re invited to an occasional event I hold called Game Day. Here is the text of the evite, where you will find full details.
In cooperation with the Glendora Public Library, I’d like to invite you to the long-awaited Game Day Six! […]

Come Walk With Me

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Artificial Intelligence has been defined as the study of anything humans do that computers can’t. Once we’ve figured out how to get computers (or robots) to do such a task, it ceases to be AI. Such tasks once included optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, and playing championship Chess. In each case, there were detractors who […]