Future Salon

Friday, May 25, 2007 Salina, Colorado

The only thing of note today was that we attended the monthly
of the Future Salon. The group meets at the Boulder
Book Store has an interesting mix of people. We find them
more interesting than our Sunday morning group although we
haven't been to the Sunday Morning Conversation group in
months and Kent is certainly trying to upgrade the
discussions, at least from the e-mails he sends out it seems
he is. Anyway, the subject for this evenings meeting was
Artificial intelligence. There were about 12 of us in
attendance and it seems most of us know a little about it
and had come to learn more.

Much of the discussion was about the DOD robotic race held
each year for the last few years. Apparently, the robots
can now conquer the track in the desert so DOD is thinking
about having the contest more to an Urban environment. I
think they ran this year, but Robert and I only watched them
the first year.

The URL below is for the 2005 race.
Desert robot race, sponsored by DOD