SOAR, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, is a recently completed 4.1m telescope, dedicated to high angular resolution. To complement the other two larger telescopes, Gemini on Cerro Pachón and the Blanco telescope on Cerro Tololo, SOAR’s niche is high resolution, imaging in the visible and spectroscopy, which calls for the development of an adaptive optics (AO) module. This instrument will provi...

This paper reports on a preliminary attempt to develop and evaluate synthetic characters with multiple skill levels and with human-like behavior. Our goal was to determine which aspects of behavior have impact on skill level and humanness. We developed a bot that plays the computer game Quake against a human opponent. That bot can be parameterized along four dimensions: decision time, aggressiv...

The goal of our work is to develop architectures for general intelligent agents that can use large bodies of knowledge to achieve a variety of goals in realistic environments. Our e orts to date have been realized in the Soar architecture. In this paper we provide an overview of plan execution in Soar. Soar is distinguished by its use of learning to compile planning activity automatically into ...