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    I live in Brantford, just a few miles south of the K-W-C area. It's a shame if Ed
isn't doing the club anymore since I think he was the driving force behind it. If you
fellows get anything going in the robotics club department, let me know as there doesn't
seem to be anyone in the Brantford area that does robotics and I'm felling mighty
isolated. There is another fellow up in the area (lived right around the corner form the
University) by the name of  Andrew Miller. Ever heard of him? He and Dave Hrynkiw worked
together on a company called Solarbotics (well, Andrew's end is called AM Innovations)
which deals with the works of Mark Tilden (Andrew, Dave and Mark all attended U of W as
far as I know) and a type of insect behavior in robotics. Basically it traveled toward
or away from light. That was their food source. When they 'eat' enough light, they
become 'photophobic' and continue along until it's time to eat again. This is BEAM
stuff.
    I understand your company's interest in Rodney Brooks, it was Cog that got me
started thinking in terms of AI as a programming source. Unfortunately, all it is so far
is
thinking as per the pervious post.

    Well,... back to the garage and giving the neighbours something to talk about.

frank

"D. Ian MacLennan" wrote:

> Hi Frank,
> Yes I know Ed Spike.  I don't think he does the robotics club anymore.  At least as
> far as I know.  He was a lab instructor for a couple of courses I have taken.  My
> friend and I want to start a club though, depending on if we have time.  Where are
> you located?  Right now I'm working for a company in Ottawa.
>
> I haven't really done any AI.  The company I work for does, but I haven't gotten
> much exposure to it.  It is an area of interest, but that's about it.  The company I
> work for is really big on behaviour based robotics, and take high interest in the
> work of Rodney Brooks at MIT.  I am probably as new or newer with AI as you are.
>
> Well, gotta run...
>
> Ian
>