About Vlad Vila, BEng.

Applications Engineer

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

CPSC 679 -- Cognitive Processes in Artificial Intelligence

Course Work

For CPSC 679: Cognitive Processes in Artificial Intelligence

• Course Project: Development of an Expert Knowledge Base for Use in a Robotic Sumo Wrestler -- This is a marriage of my interests in ROBOTICS and the MARTIAL ARTS.

• Course Reading Summaries: These are links to summaries of course readings. The summaries are in a combination of textual and graphical knowledge map formats.

• Course Speaker Summaries: This section contains summaries of how speakers' viewpoints relate to Norman's 12 issues in Cognitive Science.

Birds of a Feather

• Mark Wylie
• Michelle Jacobsen
• Roberto Flores

Things That Excite My Neuronal Synapses

• Machine Intelligence
• Mobile Robotics Control
• Advanced Control Systems
• Fuzzy Logic Controllers
• Neural Networks

... what do you do when you meet this in a dark alley?

• The Robot Web Page: A well maintained page of links to some interesting robotics projects.
• MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: Some leading edge stuff from MIT.

Things That Make Me Sweat

• Volleyball
• Skiing
• Tennis
• Wing Chuin
• Mountain Biking
• Hiking
• Kayaking
• Spicy Foods
• Bedroom Eyes

Things I Do for Fun

• Star Trek
  
  Lt. Cmd. Data

• Listen to Jazz, Blues, Reggae Music
• Chess
• Cook
• EAT