Well, the Call for Papers is out for ACL 2008 (Association for Computatonal Linguistics), which will be held in the city of my birth. Columbus, Ohio is such a short drive, it’d be a shame if I didn’t attend, even if I’m probably not submitting anything. The trick is getting someone else to pay for [...]
Archive for 17 October 2007
ACL 2008 Call for Papers
Posted: 17 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: acl, call for papers, cfp, computational linguistics, conferences, ohio
Track the Space Station
Posted: 17 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: google maps, iss, satellite, satellite tracking, space station
I really love the International Space Station (ISS). Living in the city, it’s hard to get a chance to see it in the night sky for a few reasons. City light tends to drown out dimmer objects, so later at night it’s impossible to see when passing over head. Just after dusk or before sunrise [...]
Thinking Machines
Posted: 17 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: ai, chess, cool stuff, games, thinking machines, visualization
If you’ve ever played a computer at a game of chess, go, checkers, or whatever, you’ve probably wondered just what the computer was thinking. Sure you know intellectually that it can consider many times the number of moves you can in the same amount of time. But what does it dismiss and what does it [...]


