Informatics Demos
This page aims to show you examples of our work and present Informatics
as a science in an entertaining way. The demos below are based on
School research projects or on our students' course work.
play Connect 4 with a robot
Our Schools Liaison Officer, Morna Findlay, can bring the robot on a visit to your school or you can play online.
DemoQualim
QuALIM
is a Question Answering system. Unlike Search Engines (Google, for
example), it aims to answer questions like "Who won the 2004 African
Cup of Nations?" or "Where was Tom Cruise born?", rather than just
provide links to pages or documents that might contain the information
you're looking for. QuALIM will return accurate answers wherever
possible. In this particular web demo, QuALIM supplements its answers
with relevant passages from Wikipedia, so it will not answer questions
about topics not included in Wikipedia.
Demo
Festival
Festival is a speech synthesiser i.e. software capable of making
artificial speech. Synthetic speech can be used anywhere pre-recorded
speech can, for example telephone call routing and information lines,
and it is equally useful where pre-recorded speech cannot be used, for
example, screen-readers for the visually impaired or voice directions
for in-car satellite navigation.
Demo
HMM Bach
This demo illustrates machine learning. It shows how a computer can
actually create music. HMM Bach uses AI techniques to learn from
existing music, then produce harmonisations to new music.
Demo
