From: pww+@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Peter Weyhrauch)
Subject: Technicality in this Field
Originator: pww@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:24:59 GMT

Hi, all.

On the twelfth, Phil Goetz writes in response to Michael Duffy:

  [Duffy]
  >The Oz project article was a little disappointing
  >in that it was a bit broad and shallow, with not much insight into the
  >true nature of the project.  They told what areas they were studying and
  >not what they had learned so far.  Maybe the references will provide the
  >in depth info I am seeking.

  I doubt it.  I've read the 3 Graves articles, the Presence article,
  and Brenda Laurel's dissertation, and as I recall there just isn't
  anything about implementations in any of them.  (I suppose I should
  review the 1st 2 Graves articles again before saying this, but they're
  not at hand.)  There is a terrible lack of technicality in this field,
  almost as if people are keeping secrets...  or are all ideas and no
  implementations.

I cannot say how much David has implemented, since I believe he wishes
to use his work commercially, but his comments have always been very
interesting and thought provoking.  You are right in saying Brenda's
dissertation had no implementation.  Rather, it remains, in my
opinion, an excellent discussion of the issues involved in creating an
interactive fantasy system.  I don't equate a lack of implementation
with a terrible lack of technicality.

Finally, I would say that the Oz overview is just that.  Other papers
we have written do go into more detail of implementations.  Here is a
full bibliography, as far as I know, of published Oz papers.  (I've
left out tech reports that are the same as conference papers or
journal articles.)

FYI: tech reports are available from CMU. Cost is, I believe, 2 bucks
US/Canada, 5 bucks overseas.  They should also be in your library, if
you have access to one.  All inquiries and remittances should be
directed to:

   Computer Science Documentation
   School of Computer Science
   Carnegie Mellon University
   5000 Forbes Avenue
   Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3891
   412/268-2596
   reports@cs.cmu.edu


CONFERENCE PAPERS:

1. Joseph Bates and A. Bryan Loyall and W. Scott Reilly.  Broad
   Agents.  In Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Integrated
   Intelligent Architectures, Stanford, CA: March, 1991.  Available
   in SIGART Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 4, August 1991, pp. 38-40.

2. Mark Kantrowitz and Joseph Bates.  Integrated Natural Language
   Generation Systems.  In R. Dale and E. Hovy and D. Rosner and O.
   Stock (Eds.), Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation, pp
   13-28.  Springer-Verlag, 1992.  This is the Proceedings of the
   Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation,
   Trento, Italy, April 1992.

3. Joseph Bates and A. Bryan Loyall and W. Scott Reilly.  Integrating
   Reactivity, Goals, and Emotion in a Broad Agent.  In Proceedings of
   the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
   Bloomington, IN: July, 1992.

4. Joseph Bates and A. Bryan Loyall and W. Scott Reilly.  An
   Architecture for Action, Emotion, and Social Behavior.  In 
   Proceedings of the Fourth European Workshop on Modeling Autonomous
   Agents in a Multi-Agent World, S.Martino al Cimino, Italy: July,
   1992.


ARTICLES:

1. Joseph Bates.  Virtual Reality, Art, and Entertainment.  In
   PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 1992, 1(1).


CMU TECH REPORTS:

1. Sean Smith and Joseph Bates.  Toward a Theory of Narrative for
   Interactive Fiction.  Technical Report CMU-CS-89-121, Carnegie
   Mellon University.  School of Computer Science, 1989.

2. Mark Kantrowitz.  Glinda: Natural Language Text Generation in the
   Oz Interactive Fiction Project.  Technical Report CMU-CS-90-158,
   Carnegie Mellon University.  School of Computer Science, 1990.

3. W. Scott Reilly and Joseph Bates.  Building Emotional Agents.
   Technical Report CMU-CS-92-143, Carnegie Mellon University.  School
   of Computer Science, 1992

4. Margaret Thomas Kelso and Peter Weyhrauch and Joseph Bates.
   Dramatic Presence.  Technical Report CMU-CS-92-195, Carnegie Mellon
   University.  School of Computer Science, 1992.

5. Joseph Bates.  The Nature of Character in Interactive Worlds and
   The Oz Project.  Technical Report CMU-CS-92-200, Carnegie Mellon
   University.  School of Computer Science, 1992.  To appear in
   Carl Eugene Loeffler (Ed.), Virtual Realities: Anthology of
   Industry and Culture, 1993.



	Peter Weyhrauch
	Project Oz