The gold penNovember 2, 2008
A few months ago I was looking for a pen and ended up grabbing one out of the drawer that had gold ink. It wasn't what I was looking for, but it worked. I ended up using that pen for about three months and filled my notebooks with thoughts, questions, designs, diagrams, and now that it has run out of ink I realize that I've grown quite fond of it. I think I need another gold pen :)
Thanks Emily! .. and Bob! :)
Milestone: Working version of Grace publishedOctober 29, 2008
Tonight marks a significant milestone: Getting the Grace application up and running and published on the web with a
ClickOnce installer. (Note that
Expressivo is required) The application responds to voice commands starting with the word "Grace". Some example queries are:
| "Grace, what is the current time?" |
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or
| "Grace, what is the temperature in Tokyo?" |
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Other simple queries revolve around phone numbers and the family grocery list. It will be fun to expand on this over the next few months.
Exercise 30: Web UIOctober 18, 2008
SummaryAn in-house AI's main interface is voice communication, but it should also support remote interaction via the web.
Create a web UI to view, add to, and clear the current grocery list. Add a web service to Grace to allow the ASP.NET page to submit a textual query and get a string response back.
SolutionSince Grace is a standalone Windows application (not an ASP.NET web site), adding a web service isn't quite as straightforward. It requires the Web Service Extension 3.0 and a URI such as
soap.tcp://99.236.137.8/graceservice.
Aside from the web service quirks, implementing this functionality was actually quite straight forward!
Click hereWeb UIClick hereNOTE: This will only work if my PC is running.
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