On Adaptive Situated Agents

To build a really intelligent machine, many different problems must be solved (borrowing the idea from The Society of Minds, huh?!). However, it is well-known that 1) we do not know which problems must be solved, and 2) we have not solved many known problems (such as credit assignment in multi-agent systems) yet. So, I cannot go any further and this post will be finished by the end of this dot point! (no! I was joking! There is not dot point nearby!)
At last, I have reported a part of my recent researches to a journal and a conference in the previous week. I feel much better now as the journal one took all my time and energy to be prepared. Actually, it is my first really important journal paper (if it would be published) that its preparation and revision time took five anxious months(!); no! I do not exaggerate. Now, it is finished and I have stopped writing reports for a while and started reading papers and thinking about new problems again. I think that I am from those people who would be wasted by writing long technical reports. In writing them, I move forward very slowly (no! I do not type slowly or even make new sentences that way. However, I think much about what I want to write and this make the process poky) and all my creativity power wastes. However, I know that I must start writing by a few days in order to prepare another paper! ooppss!

It is interesting: I have not slept for 24 hours. I was working on my paper and doing some discussion about it with my advisor. Also I wrote a few e-mails to professors to see whether they need a student or not. I was trying to do so for a professor in the University of Toronto but I could not do so as I was too exhausted. As Marvin Minsky said, tired person cannot use their symbolic manipulators well and probably they do many grammatical mistakes. For me as a non-native English user, this is not only limited to “grammar” but also includes “vocabulary”. For instance, I may think for a two or three seconds to find a simple word (of course this is not for every word!). Summarizing (!), I am too tired and want to sleep as soon as possible.

emmm … a little note about applying … oh! it is a difficult task as most people around the world has no fund, no free position, or something like that!
Note to visitors: if you are a university professor, and want a student interested in machine learning, evolutionary computation, robotics, and …, please drop me a mail at SoloGen@removeSoloGen.net (remove “remove” word from the address). 😀 (We have an idiom which its translation is “Shooting an arrow into the darkness” (its original form is “Tiri dar tariki”) that means trying without generating the whole possible states tree and plan in it using A* search(!).)

Todays are really busy days; however, there does not exist any non-busy day. So I must continue my life and … !
I am preparing the last versions of to-be-hopefully my journal paper. It is a scientist-killer one as it took a lot of month to be ready.
I must start working on my IROS 2005 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) very soon – maybe from right now. I have written a draft paper about the subject but I should revise it and make it shorter to be suitable for the IROS05.