CCSI

The state of PA has granted UPenn, Temple and Pitt $10 million to develop a national center on science instruction. The center is supposed to unite the Graduate School of Education at Penn with the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center at Temple; and the University of Pittsburgh’s Learning […]

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I’ve actually been avoiding this story for a week, but a colleague of mine sent it to me, so I guess it is time to post it.
Mark Changizi at RPI (and may I say: damn, do they have a good PR department) is being reported as having ‘proven that some people can see into the […]

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There’s a good article in the NYTimes on research by Lera Boroditsky and colleagues on the influence of language categories on perception. If you were there, I’m sure you’d remember her presentation at the SPP in Edmonton. I think every person in the room had their hand up for a question. I’ve never seen anything […]

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OK, so that title is a little bit of a double-entendre, and an inaccurate at that - but it was the best I could do on short notice:
‘Science Daily’ has an article interviewing Selmer Bringsjord on his creation of an artificial reasoner on second life:
Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities […]

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Hurray! Scientists in Italy have achieved the greatest (to my mind) challenge in AI:
Scientists Create Coffee-Making Robot

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Ray Kruzweil has predicted ‘human-level’ AI by 2029. The BBC article is here:
Machines ‘to match man by 2029′

I’m not an AI skeptic - I wouldn’t be in this specialization if I were - but I get really sick of these predictions. My father tells a (possibly) apocryphal story of sitting in Marvin Minsky’s […]

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