MTS/LISP and Computer Go

Wilcox wrote the MTS/LISP interpreter (the LISP system used at the University of Michigan and a consortium of other places including UPenn and Brown) back in the early 70's, in order to be able to write a Go program for Dr. Walter Reitman. (Carole Hafner wrote the compiler.) The Go program was the first one to be able to give a 9-stone handicap to a human beginner and win. Computer Go

Computer Go

Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence dedicated to creating a computer program that plays Go, a traditional board game.-Performance:...

He wrote a Go program for the IBM-PC in the early 80's called NEMESIS Go Master, which became the first Go program to be released in Japan (as Taikyoku Igo).

Wilcox co-founded Toyogo, Inc., a company that created the first handheld Go machine (1987–2004). The company later went bankrupt.

3DO Video Games Credits

He was "AI Guru" for 3DO

The 3DO Company

The 3DO Company , also known as 3DO , was a video game company...

(1995–2003)

• Army Men (PC)
• Army Men Air Tactics (PC)
• Green Rogue (PS2)
• Godai: Elemental Magic (PS2)
• Jacked: (PS2)

Co-author Fujitsu Lab's Patents

Wilcox consulted for Fujitsu Labs (2003–2007) in a number of areas including motion sensing.

• Handheld Device With Preferred Motion
• Selective Engagement of Motion Detection
• Gesture Based Navigation of a Handheld User Interface
• Gesture Identification of Controlled Devices
• Environmental Modeling for Motion Controlled Handheld Devices
• User Definable Gestures for Motion Controlled Handheld Devices

LimeLife Credits

Wilcox worked at the women's mobile company, LimeLife

LimeLife

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, Inc. (2005–2008).

• Girls' Night Out Solitaire
• Girls' Night Out Blackjack
• InStyle Mobile
• Law & Order: Celebrity Betrayal
• Hollywood Hangman Deluxe

TellTale Games Credits

Wilcox works as a core engineer at TellTale Games starting in 2010.

• Poker Night at the Inventory
• Back to the Future Episodes 101 - 105
• Jurassic Park Episodes 101 - 104
• Hector: Badge of Carnage

Go Theory

In the field of Go, Wilcox is known for creating the term Sector Line and his promulgation of an opening called The Great Wall. And a book he wrote called EZ-GO, Oriental Strategy in a Nutshell.
And interactive software "books":

• Go Dojo: Contact Fights (equivalent to a 1400 page book)
• Go Dojo: Sector Fights (equivalent to an 1800 page book)

Chatbot Technology

Wilcox worked on a chatbot technology for Avatar Reality called CHAT-L. His chatbot Suzette was released into the 2009 Chatterbox Challenge and did well, winning Best New Bot and coming in second most popular. It then won the 2010 Loebner Prize

Loebner prize

The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition is that of a standard Turing test. In each round, a human judge simultaneously holds textual conversations...

, fooling one of four human judges.
The Loebner entry was written in ChatScript, a language redesigned from CHAT-L. The engine is an open source project at sourceforge.net/projects/chatscript.

He won the 2011 Loebner with a new chatbot, Rosette. http://labs.telltalegames.com/rosette