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27-Aug-04Boo for C#
06-Aug-04And just when i was feeling completely settled into Linux again, we have a meeting this morning where an Ordinance From On High tells me we must begin work in C# instead of Java. (why C#? why not even C++? they say the dev environment is better, or that it’s more like java, or that […]
Fractals
13-Jul-04Someday I need to port all of the old fractal generation & L-system programs i wrote from Pascal into some modern language. They were what got me interested in computer science, back in the day… Seeing beauties like this http://home.comcast.net/~fractalsbykeith/ Really brings me back to those days…
TactLang on LanguageHat
10-Jul-04National newspapers et. al. are one thing, but I must admit it was a little more fun for me to see the Tactical Language project mentioned on LanguageHat. The coments down below the main article were a grim reminder to the ethical problems that one faces in Computer Science and Linguistics. It’s funny: I remember […]
A Una Moneda
09-Jul-04Fría y tormentosa la noche que zarpé de Montevideo. Al doblar el Cerro, tiré desde la cubierta más alta una moneda que brilló y se anegó en las aguas barrosas, una cosa de luz que arrebataron el tiempo y la tiniebla. Tuve la sensación de haber cometido un acto irrevocable, de agregar a la historia […]
My PhD project has been getting quite a bit of news coverage lately. Right place at the right time, I guess: ISI press release ”Tomorrow’s Soldiers” on Slate Magazine “Talking Up a Good Game” on ABC News’ FutureTech A USC news article “Virtual Camp Trains Soldiers in Arabic, and More” on the New York Times
Parsing Sigalert
30-Jun-04Been wanting to do this for a while: sigalert.com has wonderful data that can be mined, with regards to patterns in freeway traffic. It’d be great to harvest and analyze traffic trends. TODO: email Ken (urban planning/transportation PhD at UCI) to see if they have any data i can steal email sigalert to see if […]
InSTIL 2004
02-Jun-04June 17-19, Venice, Italy. Presenting a couple papers (and a poster) on Computer Assisted Language Learning–my current academic research into modelling the kinds of mistakes that an American will make as he learns Levantine Arabic. Files: InSTIL ASR paper (Mote et. al, 2004) InSTIL general paper (Johnson et. al, 2004) InSTIL ASR poster Here’s the […]
realworld colliding with the online
27-May-04Strange… I had been following the Semantic Compositions blog , along with a few others of the linguistics/AI ilk, for a good number of months now. I’d never given a second thought to who was behind SC’s anonymity until I came across this post this morning. It was quite strange to read about Laurie’s mixer […]
What: The Charter Meeting for the AI Grads Weekly Reading Group Where: 9th Floor Conference Room When: 2004/05/27 @ 1300 Topic: AUTHOR: TIM BERNERS-LEE, JAMES HENDLER and ORA LASSILA TITLE: THE SEMANTIC WEB SOURCE: Scientific American v284 no5 p34-43 My 2001 Grab it here: Tim Berners-Lee: The Semantic Web – my thoughts to follow… a […]