2003-04 ACRL chapter conferences/events

Draft (04/07/2003)

KI-04-2003-Embodied-Conversational-Agents fürs web.PMD

I met Jeff Rickel for the first time at one of the first workshops on Lifelike Agents in Japan in 1997. Jeff presented Steve, an animated pedagogical agent for training. I was fascinated by Jeff’s idea to create an agent that inhabits a 3D environment with students enabling completely new forms of interaction. While the behaviour of most animated agents at that time was scripted, Jeff succeeded...

KI-04-2003-Embodied-Conversational-Agents fürs web.PMD

In the following, it will be shown how these systems can be applied as a means to generate the body movements of Embodied Conversational Agents. The next section describes the CoGesT transcription system in more detail. Section 3 gives an overview of multimodal corpus creation in the TASX-environment and the synthesis of conversational gestures using Lokutor. In the final section these systems ...

Update: influenza activity--United States, 2003-04 season.

This report summarizes influenza activity in the United States during September 29, 2003-March 27, 2004, and updates the previous summary. This report also summarizes human infections with avian influenza viruses related to poultry outbreaks in North America. Preliminary data collected through CDC influenza surveillance indicate that national influenza activity peaked during late November-Decem...

Dental school vacant budgeted faculty positions: academic year 2003-04.

The total number of vacant budgeted positions (296) fell by eleven positions between 2002-03 and 2003-04. However, the reported number of lost positions increased from thirty-nine to 147. The average number of vacancies per school was 5.3. The average number of vacancies reported to be usual and normal at any one time was 3.6 per school, the same as last year. Forty-three percent of the vacanci...