artificial intelligence

New Arbitrage Opportunities for Image Search: Metaphors, Game Metadata, Common Sense

Submitted by Ray Uzwyshyn on Jun 16, 2009, 12:24 PM
A new opportunity for image search is presented by leveraging emergent image retrieval paradigms (Google Image Labeler) with New Interface Possiblities (Cool Iris) for the next stage of Image Search: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-09/JunJul09_Uzwyshyn.pdf 

Duke U Press Publishes Study by Obama's Mama

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 04, 2009, 02:03 PM
It hasn't been very often, if ever, in American history that the mother of the President of the United States was a scholar and an academic.  Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia, by the late S. Ann Dunham.  Duke U Press Editorial Director Ken Wissoker notes:  ?It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham.  Her global perspective and obvious respect for other people?s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have!?

Mining the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex in a Poetic-Serious Fashion

Submitted by nknouf on Apr 20, 2009, 11:06 PM

Sadly I was not able to attend the HASTAC conference, but I wanted to post some information about a current project of mine...

As we now hear by some commentators that the "worst" of the so-called financial "crisis" "might" be over, we have to acknowledge the difficulty of squaring

World 3

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 06, 2009, 08:36 AM

There are definition problems when talking about the entities of ?Information Technology?: what should we call the main ingredients? Intuitively it would seem that there is a technological domain, consisting of machines and programs that work with something called inf

The Evolution of Information Technology

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 02, 2009, 08:44 AM

As we have noted, technological innovation comes seldom without resistance, be it from legacy technologies and business models, or in the defence of the entrenched