A major limitation of today's computer games is the shallowness of interactions with non-player characters. To build up relationships with players, NPCs should be able to remember shared experiences, including conversations, and shape their responses accordingly. We believe that progress in AI has already reached the point where research on using NLP and large KBs in games could lead to importa...

41 Sensory information is processed and transmitted through the synaptic structure of local cortical 42 circuits, but it is unclear how modulation of this architecture influences the cortical 43 representation of sensory stimuli. Acetylcholine (ACh) promotes attention and arousal and is 44 thought to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of sensory input in primary sensory cortices. Using 45 high-...

DRAFT Abstract Object-oriented programs often have a regular structure in that functions are propagated to classes which are connected by part-of and inheritance relations. To abbreviate the description of programs and to organize them eeectively, we propose a propagation model which allows a concise speciication of propagation patterns. Propagation patterns ooer an abstraction mechanism for ob...

OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate a shortened version of the Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit, to be called the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit, or APHAB. DESIGN The Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (PHAB) is a 66-item self-assessment, disability-based inventory that can be used to document the outcome of a hearing aid fitting, to compare several fittings, or to evaluate the same fitti...