Archives for the 'Computation' Category
Intelligent Instruments
Published on 6 Oct 2007 at 6:24 pm.
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Filed under Computation, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Lego, NXT, Programming, Research, Robotics, Technology.
One of my main research thrusts recently has been my work on desiging intelligent instruments. The idea is to develop truly autonomous scientific platforms. Such systems would be able to explore the surface of the more distant worlds such as Europa or Titan, or dive deep into the oceans on Earth to search for undersea [...]
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Human Computation
Published on 22 Aug 2007 at 11:44 am.
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Filed under Computation, Internet, Programming, Research, Software, Technology.
My friend Carlos recently emailed me an interesting talk on leveraging human computation to solve difficult computational problems. The talk was by Luis von Ahn from the Computer Science Department from Carnegie Mellon University, and was presented as a Google Tech Talk last year on July 26, 2006.
As a physicist, I have always marvelled at [...]
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 [...]
GoogleSky at DMASES 2007
Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 1:34 am.
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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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Powerset Due to Launch
Published on 12 Jun 2007 at 10:42 pm.
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Filed under Computation, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Research, Software.
I received an email from my friend Barney Pell the other day announcing the launch of Powerset in September 2007. Powerset is developing the next generation search engine, which relies on natural speech processing! Right now you can sign up to try the Powerset demo before its release!
A video introduction to Powerset can be found [...]
