Archives for July 2007
Astrometry.net
Published on 17 Jul 2007 at 1:26 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Computation, Exploration, Internet, Photography, Research, Space.
The 2007 Data Mining in Aeronautics, Science and Exploration Systems (DMASES 2007) meeting was held recently in Mountain View California (June 26-27, 2007). Ashok Srivastava had asked me to chair the Science Session, and we were fortunate to invite a wide array of excellent speakers. Among them was Sam Roweis who is doing a sabbatical at Google, and presented [...]
Tyrannosaurus Rex Blood?
Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 2:26 am.
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Filed under Dinosaurs, Evolution, Paleontology.
Mary Schweitzer who amazed us by discovering remains of soft tissue in dinosaur bones has been continuing to make new discoveries. NOVA Science Now is going to broadcast a special on July 17th on the possibility that Dr. Schweitzer has discovered the remains of Tyrannosaurus Rex blood (see picture above).
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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MaxEnt 2007
Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 2:11 am.
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Filed under Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Probability, Research.
Friday marked the closing session of the 27th International Workshop on Bayesian and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt 2007). I had the great pleasure to host this year’s meeting in the lovely city of Saratoga Springs. We had approximately 100 participants from almost 25 countries spanning all six of the populated continents!
This year [...]
GoogleSky at DMASES 2007
Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 1:34 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Computation, Internet, Photography, Research, Software, Space.
Sam Roweis emailed me to explain that he is affiliated with astrometry.net
I have re-written this entry and corrected the errors.
http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/2007/07/17/astrometrynet/
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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Topography in Machine Learning
Published on 7 Jul 2007 at 2:38 am.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Philosophy, Research, Solutions.
I recently chaired the Science Session of the Data Mining in Aeronautics, Science and Exploration Systems (DMASES 2007) Conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA. I gave a short 20 minute talk on Problem Solving and referred to a book by David Perkins that I really enjoy, called The Eureka Effect: The [...]
