Joseph C. Osborn @JoeOsborn@scholar.social

Hello! If you’re any kind of researcher or practitioner in AI (broadly construed) at any career stage, with an interest in interactivity or games, I’d like to invite you to participate in our new mentor pairing program for authors new to the AIIDE community.

💌 For more info: joseph.osborn@pomona.edu
📜 Call for participation: https://sites.google.com/view/aiide-2022/call-for-participation

AIIDE has been my home conference since 2018, it’s not too big and not too small and the (double blind) reviews are of very good quality!

Pomona CS is hiring tenure track for next year!

https://cs.pomona.edu/search2022.html

I really like it here, they value both teaching and research, steady 2/2 course load, pre-tenure year-long sabbatical with salary subvention. Mask and vaccine mandates, strong faculty governance, majority nonwhite student body, small class sizes (15-40), smallish department (~8-10 people). Great retirement and mortgage benefits. No PhD students but excellent undergrads.

I’m just about to write a personal statement for my reappointment review. Anybody have advice/thoughts/rants/want to kvetch about theirs?

Does anybody have interactive fiction favorites for an almost-7 year old who likes space/science/fantasy? We’ve enjoyed “Escape this book!” and Lowery’s sketchbook adventures or whatever they’re called; any good digital examples out there?

Are you interested in games, interaction, and/or programming languages? Please consider submitting to PLIÉ 2021 by August 12!

https://sites.google.com/view/plie21

Topics range from domain specific and end-user programming languages to formal verification, authoring tools, programming practices around interactivity, and UX of programming!

If you don’t have a full paper ready to go, consider a 2 page “conversation starter” or a demo or tutorial!

Well it looks like I just finished the first draft of my first NSF CAREER application! I’m not expecting much but as an exercise I guess I’m glad I have a (possible) plan for my next five years of research.

The six stages of vertex skinning animation:
1. Nothing draws at all, why
2. Model draws without animating, why is nothing moving
3. Exactly one of the model’s vertices is animating, what
4. Sprawling, skittering mass of limbs, how could anyone possibly debug this?
5. Oh, flip this multiplication around and it works!
6. Phew, that wasn’t so hard!

Do I know anyone with a handle on geometric algebra?

I’m trying to develop an explanation for rigidbody physics in 3D with rotors as rotations and angular momentum as a bivector (deriving angular velocity from the inertia tensor) but I’m having trouble deriving equations of motion. In part this is because I am not 100% sure what all the types should be.

Should I be worried that my six year old is threatening to “hack into [my] mainframe”?