Chinese Characters and Artificial Intelligence

I wrapped up my Thursday attending a presentation on a method being developed to teach Chinese characters through beautiful animations, and another being developed to guide HTML based portfolio production through Artificial Intelligence Markup Language. Both Nai-fen Yu and Kenneth Luterbach have set themselves difficult tasks. Both had interesting things to report. I have seen AIML used in pandorabots in Second Life, and so enjoyed learning about AIML. But I really wish I could show you the Chinese character animations. They are instruction delivered in a way that lifts the spirit with their beauty.