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Definition: Alice


(1) For the electric airplane, see electric aviation.

(2) For the AI company, see Alice & Bob.

(3) (ALICE) (Artificial LInguistic Computer Entity) A chatbot designed by Dr. Richard Wallace. It is an open-source program written in Java that can be modified using AIML (AI Markup Language). ALICE was first written in SETL and released in 1995. See AI/ML and SETL.

(4) An open-source, object-oriented development environment from Carnegie Mellon University for building 3D animations, games and virtual worlds. Running under Windows, Mac and Linux, Alice is based on Java and programmed by dragging and dropping functions into a work area. It was designed to teach fundamental concepts to novices, such as the relationship between programming statements and objects.




Developing in Alice
Alice was designed to make it easy to learn object-oriented programming principles. All program creation is graphics based and programming statements are dragged and dropped in place.