2006.03.28
Just doing a little late night reading on intrapreneurship and came across the 1987 Gifford Pinchot essay "Innovation through Intrapreneuring." This reads as fresh today as I'm sure it did in 1987. A great read.
>> Innovation Through Intrapreneuring - Gifford Pinchot
>> Innovation Through Intrapreneuring - Gifford Pinchot
2006.03.23
2006.03.21
Walking the dogs earlier this evening I listened to a fascinating Podcast of Jeff Hawkins speaking last fall at the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Program.
>> Hawkins' Stanford ETL Program Presentation (MP3)
Overheard during the Q&A @ the end of Hawkin's ETL talk at Stanford:
Q: Do you think it's ethical to build intelligent machines?
A: We're implementing an algorithm in Silicon. It's not like we're building something that's going to feel bad about being mounted in a box and stuffed on a rack somewhere!
Q: Are you sure? (nervous laughter from the audience)
Numenta
Numenta is building a new type of memory system, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), modeled on Jeff Hawkins' theory of how the human neocortex works.
>> Numenta, Inc.
>> Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM)
>> On Intelligence Book Homepage
Postscript: Man - there just aren't enough hours in the day.
>> Multivalued Logic NNs
>> Hawkins' Stanford ETL Program Presentation (MP3)
Overheard during the Q&A @ the end of Hawkin's ETL talk at Stanford:
Q: Do you think it's ethical to build intelligent machines?
A: We're implementing an algorithm in Silicon. It's not like we're building something that's going to feel bad about being mounted in a box and stuffed on a rack somewhere!
Q: Are you sure? (nervous laughter from the audience)
Numenta
Numenta is building a new type of memory system, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), modeled on Jeff Hawkins' theory of how the human neocortex works.
>> Numenta, Inc.
>> Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM)
>> On Intelligence Book Homepage
Postscript: Man - there just aren't enough hours in the day.
>> Multivalued Logic NNs
An interesting eWeek interview with Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division co-president Jim Allchin:
>> Allchin Looks Forward to Next Vista CTP and Beyond
>> Allchin Looks Forward to Next Vista CTP and Beyond
2006.03.18
AMAST - Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology [General] -
chris - chris@chrisrussell.net @ 632 (09:03:48 EST)
I came across the Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST) website several years ago while doing research related to Hyperworx. At the time, I took their "Manifesto" as evidence that I was moving in the right direction conceptually with SCDL. As I've been thinking about these topics again recently, I thought it time to track down the AMAST Manifesto and read it again.
AMAST.org Website - this effort seems to be abandoned.
AMAST Manifesto (PDF) - I've converted the raw postscript manifesto from AMAST.org to PDF and mirrored it here so that more people will read it. I think it's really quite profound actually...
From the AMAST Manifesto:
"Computer science continues to be fragmented by multiple dichotomies: it is abstract in nature but handles concrete, tangle things; it has its own general character but manages particularities of other sciences and technologies; its intellectual substance concerns deep gnostical questions but has many pragmatical applications; its understanding requires a high-level education but it is extensively used without any special preparation, etc. These dichotomies raise serious problems regarding the development directions of computer science as an investigation discipline and of its artifacts as problem solving tools. The goal of this manifesto is to initiate a discussion on the development of computer science as a cohesive discipline whose object of investigation is problem solving machinery and consequently whose methodology should be based on the commonality of the methodologies characterizing problem solving in various human fields of endeavor, namely, the using of abstractions to model real-life problems."
AMAST.org Website - this effort seems to be abandoned.
AMAST Manifesto (PDF) - I've converted the raw postscript manifesto from AMAST.org to PDF and mirrored it here so that more people will read it. I think it's really quite profound actually...
From the AMAST Manifesto:
"Computer science continues to be fragmented by multiple dichotomies: it is abstract in nature but handles concrete, tangle things; it has its own general character but manages particularities of other sciences and technologies; its intellectual substance concerns deep gnostical questions but has many pragmatical applications; its understanding requires a high-level education but it is extensively used without any special preparation, etc. These dichotomies raise serious problems regarding the development directions of computer science as an investigation discipline and of its artifacts as problem solving tools. The goal of this manifesto is to initiate a discussion on the development of computer science as a cohesive discipline whose object of investigation is problem solving machinery and consequently whose methodology should be based on the commonality of the methodologies characterizing problem solving in various human fields of endeavor, namely, the using of abstractions to model real-life problems."
2006.03.13
A great research paper on chicken: http://isotropic.org/uw/papers/chicken.pdf
2006.03.10
2006.03.04
Phil Kerr's Linux MP3-HOWTO
^- A great overview of MP3 file utilities for Linux that I found looking for a command-line ID3 tag writer that I could call from a script. There are all kinds of fun toys to experiment with cited in this FAQ.
^- A great overview of MP3 file utilities for Linux that I found looking for a command-line ID3 tag writer that I could call from a script. There are all kinds of fun toys to experiment with cited in this FAQ.
