Welcome to my Computer Documents page!

This page is organized in table(s), offering ZIP or PDF files.

The ZIP files are compressed to the max, for better download times.

The PDF files are readable with the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 3.0, or higher.


available Computer Documents, are:

Table #1 - Introductory Documents, light on contents, but very informative.

Related Links are:

My Computer Projects page, featuring software for download!

My GIL page, featuring an Artificial Life creature, made for the game Creatures 2.


Table #1 - Introductory Documents

Original Title Files About... [probable] Date of Authoring Language
A Herança da Caveira PDF (20 KB) A short reflection on how close Computer Science, Neurology and philosophy can be.

March 2002

Published 2002-06-16

Portuguese
Personagens Sintécticos - Uma Perspectiva Panorâmica

PDF (271 KB)

The first 10 pages of my personal (over)view on the state-of-the-art of Synthetic Characters, on February 2001. 2001-02-23 Portuguese
Meta-Internet PDF (18 KB) Where will the Internet take us? November 2000 Portuguese

Introdução aos Agentes de Software

PDF (46 KB)

ZIP (of a PDF - 37 KB)

Brief introduction to Software Agents (revised October 2000).

December 1999 / Revised October 2000 Portuguese
Agentes de Software Autónomos, Inteligentes, Inspirados em Vida Artificial

ZIP of a PDF

(1192 KB)

Some 32 colorful pages on the current [end of 1998] state of art on Intelligent Software Agents, inspired in Artificial Life. It's very much focused on the Creatures case, describing my interpretation of the semantic network present in CYBERLIFE's product.

The ZIP file contains a PDF document.

January 1999 Portuguese
A Discórdia da Certeza de Pagels, ou a Necessidade de um Novo Paradigma PDF (25 KB) Some words on Artificial Intelligence. The most interesting bits are about the top-down and bottom-up approaches. September 1999 Portuguese
A Fronteira que Não Divide PDF (14 KB) Common Sense? Scientific Knowledge? Is there a difference? November 1999 Portuguese
A Certeza da Incerteza PDF (13 KB)

The only thing we can be sure about, is that we can't be sure about nothing!

quote me on this one :)

January 2000 Portuguese
Multiplicar para Conquistar PDF (14 KB) People usually learn that it is good "to divide, to conquer". But what about the other way around? January 2000 Portuguese