I just emailed my Contact Conference 2013 proposal out. The summary is getting the Noble Ape Simulation into a space traveling robot of some form. That’s the summary. Within a couple of minutes of me sending out the proposal, Bob Mottram responded.
Apes in space? Why not. It’s a step up from pigs.
Happy April 1st.
But wait, that was actually my legit Contact Conference 2013 submission…
For a period in the early 2000s, the Noble Ape development maintained a blog. This was done in parallel to a monthly mail-out of information and then eventually a periodic 10-15 minute podcast of information. The next logical step may be a YouTube channel or some means of providing video information on the Noble Ape development.
I was at Apple Inc to meet with Noble Ape’s long-time champion there, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar, a couple of weeks ago. He listed half a dozen technical directions of interest for Apple’s continued use of Noble Ape.
Dr. Ernie noted that it would be particularly useful if the updates to this information could either be distilled in academic papers or… after some discussion of my already heavily committed writing and working schedule… a well-written technical blog post would do.
This is the blog intended for the release of this information. In general the information provided here will relate to the documentation of future development, periodic updates of note, new version release but most importantly technical writing associated with the Noble Ape development that should be useful for people looking to use Noble Ape or already using Noble Ape.
I’m pleased to also invite Bob Mottram to write on this blog and potentially other contributions from people of note through the Noble Ape development. I’d like to provide a shortlist of these names at this stage but as I am yet to even formally approach Bob to write on this blog, let’s just say bookmark this space and follow this RSS feed for more.
Bob has added a lot of interesting new stuff to Noble Ape in the past couple of months. I distilled some of this at a talk I gave at Stanford Research Institute on July 14, 2010. The same day I met with Dr. Ernie. You can find the sides to the SRI talk here and the audio to the talk in MP3 format here. The talk is for about one hour fifteen minutes with about forty-five minutes of questions. Also check out Bob’s live Noble Ape webserver for more. Enjoy!