| 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.
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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 |