ALife in Second Life, Evolving Robots

An article on ALife in Second Life, fleshing out the virtual work with an artificial ecosystem. I like this.
Evolving robots at the TED conference. article, video of the robots evolving (reminds me of Karl Sims work), the guy.

Realistic CG Image

Found this link to one of the most realistic CG images I have ever seen. Very nice stuff, another one can be found here.

Crysis Game Engine

Just found a link (official site) to this amazing game engine with some pretty impressive physics and graphics rendering. As far as the AI goes the most impressive information I read was the collaborative computer players. The designers have combined individual AI as well as a group AI for each computer player so that they are able to coordinate movements and tactics for more realistic combat strategies. This stuff kind of makes me wish I had picked a different topic for my thesis, but then I guess it's not all beer and skittles!

A cool walking robot and life as a hack

Awesome video of a dynamically stabilizing robot learning how to walk - seriously, you need to see this! Cheers to Paul Graham.
A post by Kevin Kelly on every organism being a hack. Talks about evolutionary arms races, specifically in the context to software protection and anti-virus software. An interesting read.

Machine Learning Techniques: Right and Wrong

There is a cool post at the machine learning blog on what is right and what is wrong with a number of popular machine learning techniques. I love the idea of promoting such discussions! Optimization anyone?