Connectionists: RL-Glue and the RL-Library News

[Adam White]

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RL-Glue and the RL-Library News
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	1. RL-Glue 2.0 release
	2. RL-Glue project has moved to Google Code
	3. RL-Glue support for teachers
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RL-Glue 2.0 release
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I are pleased to announce the release of RL-Glue 2.0. The new release  
offers both new features and a more stable code base:

- network communication to make multi-language communication simpler
- support for running learning experiments over the Internet
- a new types system to make it easier to write flexible agents that  
can run on a variety of environments
- support for separating the testing and training phases of a  
learning experiment
- a message system to allow the user to pass messages to agent and  
environment programs
- the documentation has been completely rewritten to make it easier  
for users to quickly understand and use RL-Glue

Agents and environments written for RL-Glue 1.0 will need to be  
updated to work with RL-Glue 2.0. See the documentation site for  
instructions on how to update your agents and environments. The RL- 
Library is in the process of being updated to RL-Glue 2.0.


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RL-Glue project has moved to Google Code
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I have changed the host of the RL-Glue project from Sourceforge to  
Google Code. The open source project page can be found at: http:// 
code.google.com/p/rl-glue/


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RL-Glue support for teachers
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Are you teaching reinforcement learning this coming fall? Then I  
would like to talk to you! I am interested in speaking to instructors  
about using RL-Glue for teaching reinforcement learning. I will work  
with instructors to help them use RL-Glue in their classes. Send  
email to awhite at cs.ualberta.ca


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Cheers,
Adam White

RL-Glue website:  http://rlai.cs.ualberta.ca/RLBB/top.html