artificial intelligence

SHiFT 08: Sensor Networks and Data for the Open Internet of Things

David Orban discusses how we currently spend much of our time taking care of our mobile devices, but as the magnitude of devices increasing, it is difficult to manage things as we have in the past. There is just too much data...There is a need for obtaining information from sensor networks.

Cross-posted to Difference Engines:

Wednesday afternoon was going to be very art-driven... I knew this from the program and was looking forward to it!

On Wednesday morning Michael Meredith didn’t stay as long as usual at the group's breakfast table. He wanted to get ready for his demo of Virtual Vellum, starting at 9AM sharp.

Michael is just a really great communicator. I wish that more CS folks were like him...:) Even in something as serious as Illuminated manuscripts he finds a way to make things fun such as by callin the "Manuscripts Torture Chamber" to the room where they carefully manipulate the manuscripts - most (all?) from France and Belgium.

Peter Bajcsy talked about important trends in the Humanities in the Context of Decision Processes... Questions like “is sampling an appropriate appraisal tool?” were core to his presentation.

July 29 2008 at NCSA was just too big to fit in one single post - Part I here where I blog Meredith's, Lundberg's and Pitard's presentations on Illuminated Manuscripts, the Inscriptifact project and an undergoing project at the Spurlock Museum involing seals and true artistry of ca. 2.500 BC!

As promised, here is the first of a series of posts blogging ICHASS 2008 at UIUC - one per week day.

As readers of this blog know, I’m working on learning and thinking and knowing these days, trying to insert “culture” back where it belongs in contemporary conversations on thinking that have gone far too far in the direction of determinism and reductionist brain cartography. I’ve been reading a lot lately about “hardwiring” and lame metaphors of the brain as a computer program. This is annoying not just because it is simplistic about the brain but also because it is simplistic about computer programming.

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