Posts Tagged ‘Artificial Intelligence’
Artificial Intelligence – Online Today
Between 1980 and 1983, before venturing off on a life of technomadics, I had the good fortune to become a sort of cutting-edge dilettante. Every few months, I would jet to an academic conference with a press pass, spend a few days hanging with the gurus of a new microculture, then return with a head…
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Artificial Intelligence – Mini-Micro Systems
This article holds a sort of strange distinction in my memory… it was the first one I wrote while fully nomadic on my computerized recumbent bicycle, just a few days after leaving Columbus at the end of September 1983. Of course, I was also posting online about the trip itself and doing a series in…
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Book Review – Principles of Artificial Intelligence – Nilsson – Byte
I suppose, in retrospect, it was a tad cheeky for me to presume to review this book by one of the luminaries in the AI field, but fortunately I had a co-author. Jim Jenal was immersed in the Computer Science world when we became friends at the 1980 Artificial Intelligence conference at Stanford, and his…
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Artificial Intelligence – Byte
This was my first substantial essay on AI, and fell out of an intensely stimulating two-week adventure at Stanford University that included the first International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, a LISP conference, schmoozing with some truly amazing authors, hanging out at Xerox PARC for an evening, and generally getting my brain expanded during every waking…
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Retinal Log-Polar Mapping – Solving the Rotation-Scaling Problem in Image Recognition
by Steven K. Roberts Columbus, Ohio August, 1981 I have recently found myself spending a lot of time at AI conferences in journalist mode, and have become particularly enamored with image recognition. This fledgling pursuit has been sufficiently captivating to propel me into the study of human vision, and I have been fortunate to spend time…
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