Welcome
Welcome to the home of OASiS, the Organization for Advancing the Simulation of Intelligent Systems... which is to say my high-falootin' blog and/or wiki encompassing all things related to my Second Life startup operation to bring AI (artifical intelligence) and A-life (artificial life) to a commercially viable and efficient point.
Our projects will be enumerated below and explained, discussed, and documented in the accompanying wiki. My personal blog is also available. Both of these places can be reached by the menu above. You can use the menu to the right to quickly jump around this page.
I want to give special thanks to Dieter Schneider (of CssTemplateHeaven) whose beautiful "Under the Bridge" template has enabled me to quickly set up a site with a clean and attractive visual style as well as some great functionality. The template was obtained from Open Web Design and is valid XHTML 1.0 (Strict).
Mission
OASiS is the crystalization of my interest and desire to see A-life and AI merged and enabled by the power as both a testing and implementation substrate that SL, and VR in general, offers. My mission is to deliver robust and high-quality AI and A-life products to the denizens of Second Life with my growing knowledge of LSL scripting and at times relentless passion for AI and A-life.
The two main classes of products I intend to design are intelligent agents and smart prims.
Vision
My vision is, of course, the realization of my mission. I expect a dawning of massive technological upheaval to be close at hand, and strong AI will be one of the guiding forces. I don't know how much I can contribute to that, but I want to do everything I can to learn more about this profound technology and try to make a living at it.
I personally yearn for a day when AI is so convincing, A-life so realistic, that it becomes impossible, and irrelevant, to distinguish between artificial and real. My short term vision is for intelligent agents to introduce new members of SL, conduct business and enforce security, and for smart prims to enable intelligent pets, dynamic systems (such as weather), and humanized interfaces.