The Forum x network is programmed and maintained by a small group of unpaid high school and undergraduate college students. The new Matrix currently is based off of a student-run Linux server at a high school attended by part of the original coding team for the Forum x AI system. The main computational base is provided by a system currently running backgrounded in the idle time of the school's NT machines. However do note that during school hours, most of these NT boxen will be in use by students and thus unavailable for spare processor power, so the Matrix may be rather nonresponsive during these hours. Further speed problems may result from the fact that unlike intelleq, we are unable to provide the terrabytes of storage space used for the search space of the personas.
Information used for the search space is accessed as needed, only when needed.
Note that as of this writing our contexts are still somewhat unstable, and the system is still optimizing itself. A shallow persona such as Ayn Rand which simply has one simple state of mind can be easily run within our system with little or no lossage of usefulness from the shortcuts taken. We are in the process of constructing our own Cube implementation based on knowledge taken from the Mozilla Quote server , but are sorry to say that, like most of this system, it pales in terms of quality in comparison to the previous Forum 2000 system. The Forum is currently kept going by a loosely run but tightly knit network of volunteers devoted to keeping the Forum 2000 spirit alive. If you wish to contribute to this effort, email us here .