https://news.temple.edu/news/2024-09-20/flappy-bird-return-after-10-year-hiatus-true-story-behind-world-s-most-viral-mobile
Temple University film and media arts faculty member Thomas Sharpe discusses the rise, fall and 2025 return of Flappy Bird, the world’s most viral mobile game.
https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/anthropology/graduate
Temple University’s Anthropology MA and PhD degree programs are designed for those who are seriously passionate about working hard towards furthering their anthropology education. If you’re accepted into the program, you’ll conduct exciting fieldwork and learn the skills you need to join the ranks of Temple grads performing groundbreaking anthropology work in academic and professional ...
https://cis.temple.edu/~pwang/AGI-Intro.html
Two publications on the project are selected, usually one brief introduction and one detailed description. ACT-R [An Integrated Theory of the Mind; The Atomic Components of Thought] ACT-R is a cognitive architecture: a theory for simulating and understanding human cognition.
https://boyer.temple.edu/news/2020/02/mourning-loss-joy-abbott-1931-2020
It is with deep sadness we relate that one of our most luminous shining stars, Joy Valderrama Abbott (EDU '52), passed away this past weekend, Saturday, February 8th, 2020 at the age of 88. Joy was truly a legend of musical theater, an ebullient presence with a zeal for life and passion for the arts. Her caring and enthusiasm was beyond measure, living a vital life full of kindness and an ...
https://sites.temple.edu/trail/files/2021/11/XieXinDamesIROS2021.pdf
Zhanteng Xie, Pujie Xin, and Philip Dames Abstract—This paper proposes a novel neural network-based control policy to enable a mobile robot to navigate safety through environments filled with both static obstacles, such as tables and chairs, and dense crowds of pedestrians. The network architecture uses early fusion to combine a short history of lidar data with kinematic data about nearby ...
https://cis.temple.edu/~ingargio/cis587/readings/wumpus.shtml
A variety of "worlds" are being used as examples for Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Planning. Among them the Vacuum World, the Block World, and the Wumpus World. We will examine the Wumpus World and in this context introduce the Situation Calculus, the Frame Problem, and a variety of axioms.
https://cis.temple.edu/~jiewu/teaching/Spring%202013/01-savvides-localization-wireless-sensor-networks-fine-grained.pdf
Abstract— Wireless communication systems have become increasingly common because of advances in radio and embedded system technologies. In recent years, a new class of applications that networks these wireless de-vices together is evolving. A representative of this class that has received considerable attention from the research community is the wireless sensor network. Such a sensor ...
https://www.temple.edu/about/history/acres-diamonds
This is Russell Conwell's famous "Acres of Diamonds" speech—and the inspiration for the university's mission. I am astonished that so many people should care to hear this story over again. Indeed, this lecture has become a study in psychology; it often breaks all rules of oratory, departs from the precepts of rhetoric, and yet remains the most popular of any lecture I have delivered in the ...
https://sites.temple.edu/nsfcareerakt/files/2022/01/Ding-et-al._Jan7_2022_OnlineFirsts.pdf
Abstract This study aims to explore teacher noticing diferences of the sampled US and Chinese elementary teachers from cross-cultural mathematics videos. A total of 34 expert teach-ers commented on 25 video clips online. We coded what and how teachers noticed from the videos both quantitatively and qualitatively. Findings reveal teachers’ strong interests and profound reflections, especially ...
https://www.liacourascenter.com/news/detail/the-black-promoters-collective-announces-the-millennium-tour-2025-in-philadelphia
The Black Promoters Collective (BPC), one of the leading Black-owned live entertainment powerhouses. This announcement follows the unparalleled success of "The Millennium Tour" brand over the years, which broke box office records and was honored with a Billboard Award for "2022 Rap Tour of the Year."