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Philosophy of the Day
New Philosophy
How it WorksYou press button. Button tell robot hand “pick up Henry David Thoreau, move over next to pond.” Robot hand pick up Henry David Thoreau, put him next to pond. Result recorded.
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Honda Needs a Tune-Up
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This is the story of how Honda engineers screwed up a big expensive project with a simple arithmetic mistake, tried to fudge their result with sound editing software, and congratulated themselves for being totally awesome.
When I was a kid, my family used to drive up to The Pinery in Ontario, a beautiful park by Lake Huron. Very scenic. My favorite part, though, was a stretch of road a half-hour outside of the park. To discourage reckless Canadians from barreling past the houses and barns, the local government carved five sets of grooves in the road before...
PhD finished! A thesis on Ambient Intelligence
Note: this entry is not new. It has been imported from my old blog and included here in order to have it as reference.
At last! Almost a month ago, on June 12th, I received my PhD degree after succesfully passing the PhD exam. The title of my dissertation was "A Reactive Behavioural Model for Context-Aware Semantic Devices".
For those of you interested, this is an excerpt from the abstract:
In this thesis, we propose a model for knowledge sharing between devices and for representing their behaviour in a way that promotes autonomous context-aware reactivity. In our approach, we bring Semantic Web...
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