I was in Barcelona recently for the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. With little free time, I visited some of Barcelona’s famous architectures. Gaudi’s Sagrada FamÃlia just blow me away! His idea of a gothic cathedral is like seeing my day dream coming true. The little cherries and berries at the top are [...]
August 2nd, 2010 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | ContinuedTechnology
International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (Germany 2010)
IPMU 2010 conference was hosted in Germany. The IPMU conference brings together scientists working on methods for the management of uncertainty and aggregation of information in intelligent systems. It provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners in these and related areas. Topics and Scope of the Conference Theory, Methods and [...]
June 28th, 2010 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
When He’s a She, an Olympic Challenge for Natural Language Understanding
Here is a big challenge for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Semantics experts! In a recent article – State-media story fuels questions on gymnast’s age – about He Kexin, a Chinese gymnast, this funny line appeared: He herself told reporters after Wednesday’s final that “my real age is 16. I don’t pay any attention to [...]
August 14th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Last Lecture from Randy Pausch
I am sad to learn that Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an international sensation and a best-selling book, died today early Friday at his home in Virginia. On my site, I only talk about people and scientists whom I know. But Randy Pausch first [...]
July 25th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Modeling TRUST for Enterprise Social Networks
Companies are ramping up social network services in their organizations. Many managers are asking how to increase content contribution from employees and how to measure the success of enterprise social network. I suggest that they should start thinking about the human motivation and behavior factor. After the dotcom bubble burst in early 2000, many companies [...]
May 9th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
NYC Science and Technology Map
Many people asked me if there are any technology museums in NYC. Yes, we’ve wonderful science and technology museums and… we have the Apple Store Fifth Avenue open 24 hours! See the Google map I created below (click on it to see the details). View Larger Map Apple Store at Fifth Avenue (HIGHLY recommended) It’s [...]
May 5th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
2008 FIRST Championship
I read a great video blog by Wall Street Journal — Andy Jordan reports on the robot-building tournament. See the final competition below or at WSJ site: Video For a complete listing of awards, match results and scholarship winners, please visit FIRST online at www.usfirst.org and click on the “FIRST Championship 08†headline. ATLANTA – [...]
April 30th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
The Clouds are Moving…Fast
Cloud computing is getting exciting with the beta release of Google App Engine in April.  There are many questions about the technology adoption challenges for enterprise computing. Specifically questions like: Is Google App Engine better than Amazon Web Services? Can we develop enterprise applications with Google App Engine? Both Google and Amazon promise to make Web application [...]
April 22nd, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction
There was an interesting conference in Phoenix a week ago – Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction . This workshop is sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), with School of Computing and Informatics, ASU. Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the social behavior, [...]
April 18th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Best of Corporate Blogging
Web 2.0 is about gathering Collective Intelligence. I was looking at Fortune companies use of blogging and if they encourage their employees to blog. Below are my picks (based on frequency of posts, page rank and content) – not listed by preference: Tibco: http://tibcoblogs.com GE Global Research: From Edison’s Desk Sun Microsystems: blogs.sun.com IBM: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/ Oracle: http://blogs.oracle.com/ [...]
April 12th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
