Chatbots 3.2 Conference

[Medeksza]

I just came back from the Chatbots 3.2 conference in Philadelphia. http://chatbots32.eventbrite.com/ I presented Zabaware's askthecandidates2012.com site and the reception was generally positive.

There were a lot of interesting presentations this year. Of interest to many people here is that Haptek's creator Chris Shaw was there and I got to meet him for the first time in person after almost 12 years of Zabaware selling Haptek's components. As many people here probably know the Haptek engine hasn't been updated for almost 10 years now. Chris said he thought Haptek was ahead of its time when its made and left to work on other projects, but he said he is coming "out of retirement" to work on new things again. So expect to see new things from Haptek sometime in the future.

I also found Marcus Endicott's presentation interesting. He talked about modular and open standards for chatbot development so that components from different chatbot vendors could easily interoperate. I've always had a modular approach to programming Ultra Hal and would definetely follow interoperatibility standards should a standard organically emerge or be agreed upon.

I volunteered to edit all the conference videos again this year, so they'll be available to watch in the coming weeks.

[lightspeed]

hi Robert , sounds interesting about haptek , is the ogre engine work still going forward and the amy character ? any progress in stopping any crashes ?  :)

[Medeksza]

The Zabaware character engine has now been renamed the Charimation engine. Charimation will be spun off as seperate company owned jointly by Zabaware, the lead developer of the engine, and any investors or partners we can find. A website has been setup at www.charimation.com where I cobbled together some details about the engine and a blog to  report on progress.

[NIGE]

Hey Robert,
Since you have met Chris Shaw,
And you can't get AMY going in the new engine.
Can you get with him or get the tools to convert her to work with Haptek?????

[Medeksza]

I'm having some very interesting discussions with Chris. Can't give details now, but if anything comes of it I'll definetely announce it here.

[freddy888]

Will Charmination be open source ?

[Medeksza]

Will Charmination be open source ?

Yes, it's still the same engine

[freddy888]

Good stuff !  8)

I am really surprised Haptek are back in the game, but I have to say pleasantly surprised.

[sybershot]

The new Charmination site looks great, can't wait to be able to start using the new frog character and Amy.
Haptek back in business :) it will be interesting to see what haptek comes out with as well.