At Home in the Upper Valley » Blogging

Patience please, this blog will be up again ASAP!

ap — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:33:04 +0000

So you may ask, what’s taking so long to rebuild this blog? Well, with a little help from my son, I got my blog up and running again. And then I was so happy with the new features of WordPress, that I just went on and on changing this and that…until I got spammed with the ‘Silence is Golden’ blog configuration spam. Short story is that my blog went blank and the shortest path without a reliable backup, was to rebuild …and that is still in progress. Many old posts and new ones are yet to be ported over….again

What’s the take home message here. Friends should not let friends run old blog sites. It’s much better to upgrade now and then.

Simpson’s movie screenshot

ap — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:19:31 +0000

…couldn’t help meself from posting this one. The Simpson’s latest movie has it’s opening in nearby Springfield VT. How sweet! Watch upcoming episodes for Vermont themed snippets.

No bad words

ap — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:58:52 +0000

Political will is a renewable resource

ap — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:55:08 +0000

Al Gore spoke at the SLA annual conference in Denver. His statement that political will is a renewable resource hit a chord with me. Among other things talking about his life, he worked as an Army reporter carrying an M16 and a pencil and later became an investigative reporter. You can read my complete official SLA blog post.

Blog Depression

ap — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:23:41 +0000

Well, what can I say. It’s winter, the days are short and blog depression can set in. So there it is, a state of mind when one does not feel liking keeping up the blog

Artificial Intelligence Turns 50

ap — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:41:29 +0000

“…on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it”, John McCarthy wrote in his funding proposal for the 1956 Summer Program on Artificial Intelligence held at Dartmouth College in Hanover NH. No one knew at the time that this gathering of industry, academic and student researchers would lead to a new field of research. No one knew at the time that machine intelligence would prove so difficult to obtain.

Five of the original conference participants were present for AI 50, The Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years. Program PDF. Pictured left to right are John McCarthy, Oliver Selfridge, Marvin Minsky, Trenchard More, and Ray Solomonoff.

I was so lucky to get involved doing historical research on the ‘56 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. In addition to contacting libraries and archives across the country, I traveled to Pittsburgh’s CMU to go through the papers of Herbert Simon and Alan Newell, the two ‘hits’ of the ‘56 Summer Project. This photo is after a long day pouring through boxes of papers in the CMU University Archives.

Stay tuned for “Mind in the Machine – The Discovery of Artificial Intelligence”, a video documentary by Wendy Conquest, Bob Drake, and Dan Rockmore.

See also Meg Houston Maker’s blog for detailed notes she blogged during the conference, AI@50 Wikipedia entry by Meg Houston Maker, Complexity Blog, and New Hampshire Public Radio interview on AI MP3

Charlotte’s Web Blog?

ap — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:19:00 +0000

Humor…OK, Ok, this post is off topic. Hope my writer friends out there aren’t offended by this Funky Winkerbean comic :-0

Metadata

ap — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:06:58 +0000