Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Computers versus Common Sense
Google TechTalks May 30, 2006 Douglas Lenat Dr. Douglas Lenat is the President and CEO of Cycorp. Since 1984, he and his team have been constructing, experimenting with, and applying a broad real world knowledge base and reasoning engine, collectively "Cyc". Dr. Lenat was a professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University and at Stanford University. His interest and experience in national security has led him to regularly consult for several U.S. agencies and the White House. ABSTRACT It's way past 2001 now, where the heck is HAL? For several decades now we've had high hopes for computers amplifying our mental abilities not just giving us access to relevant stored information, but answering our complex, contextual questions. Even applications like human-level unrestricted speech understanding continue to dangle close but just out of reach. What's been holding AI up? The short answer is that while computers make fine idiot savants, they lack common sense: the millions of pieces of general knowledge we all share, and fall back on as needed, to cope with the rough edges of the real world. I will talk about how that situation is changing, finally, and what the timetable -- and the path -- realistically are on achieving Artificial Intelligence.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
fraochaidhe
Freaky
from fraochaidhe, strange, unusual; frightening, frenzied, manic, mad, rabid, raving, wildsource: List of English language words of Irish origin, wikipedia.org.
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Labels: cultural history, Ireland, United Kingdom, Wikipedia
Sunday, October 14, 2007
oSkope visual search
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Labels: design, information architecture, search engines, Visualization
Parsnip Chips
Parsnips were eaten like potatoes nowadays, before the potato was discovered as food.
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Labels: food, London, travelling
Turnip Chips
They appear to be cultivated both as root and leaf vegetable. The picture shows the root vegetable. To be specific the italian red head type.
Top tip: the smaller the turnip, the sweeter the taste.
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Labels: food, London, travelling
La Défense, Paris
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Labels: Paris, travelling
Saturday, October 13, 2007
A27, A1, E19 (Utrecht - Brussels) revisited
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Labels: traffic jams, travelling
Schiphol D-pier revisited
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Labels: airports, Schiphol, travelling
Are we ready to make information find us?
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Labels: information architecture, search engines, social bookmarking, tagging
Friday, October 12, 2007
Golden Hinde
It's an authentic replica of the galleon in which Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world in 1577 – 1580.
DNV and Maritime go back a long way, so it's not that strange after all.
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Labels: London, travelling
Deep down below
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Labels: London, travelling
Work in London
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Labels: Eelco Kruizinga, London, Timo Kouwenhoven, travelling
Friday, October 05, 2007
Awarded, such honour
Yesterday I received a phone call from the Abersychan special awards committee. I'm granted with the Honorary Abersychan Anorak of the Year Award. According to his personal assistant, the honourable professor doctor Michael Kelleher will give me the award in person later this year during a special banquet organised in Shap Wells.
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Labels: Awards
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Peter van Dijck using Sketchcast to explain an IA idea
Actually an idea he saw presented by Are Halland of NetLife Research, called: Core and Paths: Designing from the inside and out.
After seeing the video I felt kind of good. Why? Because I understood the idea so well. In November 2006 I made quite a similar thing for a client. Not to brag or anything, just to mention that it feels good that the idea isn't that bad at all, according to peers.
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Labels: doodles, information architecture, Peter van Dijck, Sketchcast
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Knowledge Cafe, theme: Corporate Wikis
Yesterday I participated in a knowledge cafe by presenting a project I undertook with my colleague Eelco Kruizinga. The project was called SKYbrary, a mediawiki-based reference site for air traffic controllers initiated by EUROCONTROL / Safety Improvement Sub Group, with ICAO and Flight Safety Foundation as participating organisations.
The knowledge cafe had over 70 guests that afternoon, from all walks of trade. All interested in learning about the cases presented and the discussions facilitated about corporate wikis. The other cases were Railpedia by Prorail and ING Wiki by ING Bank.
The location were the knowledge cafe took place is called "Bomencentrum." A small meeting centre on the premises of an arboretrum annex tree farm. A building designed following Feng Shui architecture guidelines, ensuring it's a healthy place where one feels at ease.
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As a present all participants received a Ginkgo Biloba tree. A beautiful and rather specific tree, in many ways.
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Labels: enterprise 2.0, knowledge management, Wiki
Monday, October 01, 2007
Personas, do's and don't's
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Labels: design, information architecture, personas