A 35-year-old man in Japan has declared his love for Japanese computer character, Hatsune Miku, in an $18,000 wedding ceremony with nearly 40 guests. Michelle Hennessy reports. Why a 'nasty' 10% to 15 ...

A man has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of carrying out a virtual mugging spree by using software “bots” to beat up and rob characters in the online computer game Lineage II. The stolen virtual ...

Computer characters and eventually robots could learn complex motor skills like walking and running through trial and error, thanks to a milestone algorithm. Computer characters and eventually robots ...

Imagine socially intelligent computer game characters with a natural dialogue, human-like in their ways of relating to others, who gossip, manipulate and have their own agendas. New research can make ...

'In today's computer games, we often see a goal-driven dialogue where the player is limited to a number of predefined response alternatives. In my research, I study how we can use language technology ...