The document discusses the evolution of human intelligence through technological developments like the invention of writing 5000 years ago and printing over 1000 years ago. It describes how writing allowed information to be stored and transmitted independently of memory, enabling developments like organized religion and objective knowledge. Later sections discuss models for the exponential growth of computing power and how computers may be able to match and then exceed human brain capabilities through techniques like neural networks, detailed neuron modeling, and ability to share knowledge rapidly. The ability of computers to read and understand large amounts of information on their own is also described.
A presentation covering what I think are the important points behind Freud's "Notes Upon The Mystic Writing Pad" and Murphie and Potts "Technology, Thought and Consciousness"
“C’mon – You Should Read This”: Automatic Identification of Tone from Languag...Waqas Tariq
Information extraction researchers have recently recognized that more subtle information beyond the basic semantic content of a message can be communicated via linguistic features in text, such as sentiments, emotions, perspectives, and intentions. One way to describe this information is that it represents something about the generator’s mental state, which is often interpreted as the tone of the message. A current technical barrier to developing a general-purpose tone identification system is the lack of reliable training data, with messages annotated with the message tone. We first describe a method for creating the necessary annotated data using human-based computation, based on interactive games between humans trying to generate and interpret messages conveying different tones. This draws on the use of game with a purpose methods from computer science and wisdom of the crowds methods from cognitive science. We then demonstrate the utility of this kind of database and the advantage of human-based computation by examining the performance of two machine learning classifiers trained on the database, each of which uses only shallow linguistic features. Though we already find near-human levels of performance with one classifier, we also suggest more sophisticated linguistic features and alternate implementations for the database that may improve tone identification results further.
Integrated approach for domain dimensional information retrieval system by us...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a research paper about developing an integrated information retrieval system using neural networks and domain dimensions. The system is intended to allow more precise searching within specific domains by utilizing each domain's own terminology and organizing information along dimensions. Neural networks are discussed as a technique for personalizing search results. Domain dimensions extract specialized vocabulary and semantic relationships within a domain to index documents and help users build targeted queries.
New approaches to openness – beyond open educational resourcesGrainne Conole
This document discusses new approaches to openness beyond Open Educational Resources (OER). It begins by discussing characteristics of social and participatory media and their implications for learning, teaching, and research. It then considers different facets of open practices across learning, teaching, and research. Some key aspects discussed include open educational practices (OEP), definitions and characteristics of OER, and how social and participatory media enable more open practices with implications for education.
Validation of Dunbar's number in Twitter conversationsaugustodefranco .
Bruno Goncalves1;2, Nicola Perra1;3, and Alessandro Vespignani1;2;4
1Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research,
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, IN 47408, USA
2Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University, IN 47404, USA
3Linkalab, Complex Systems Computational Lab. - 09100 Cagliari Italy and
4Institute for Scientic Interchange, Turin 10133, Italy
Maio 2011
Some futurists and artificial intelligence experts envision credible scenarios in which synthetic brains will, within this century, extend the functionality of our own brains to the point where they will rival and then surpass the power of an or-ganic human brain. At the same time, humans seem to have no limitations when it comes to finding ways to attack the computerized devices that others have invent-ed. Attackers have successfully compromised computers, mobile phones, ATMs, telephone networks, and even networked power grids. If neural devices fulfill the promise of treatment, and enhance our quality of lives and functionality—which appears likely, given the preliminary clinical success demonstrated from neuropros-thetics— their use and adoption will likely grow in the future. When this happens, inevitably, a wide variety of legal, security, and public policy concerns will follow. We will begin this article with an overview of brain implants and neural devic-es and their likely uses in the future. We will then discuss the legal issues that will arise from the intersection among neural devices, information security, cybercrime, and the law.
La Psicologia y aprendizaje de las Lenguas es un vocabulario, fonología, gramática, y otros aspectos de la estructura lingüística.
Al hacer uso de la palabra (o no), ¿qué decir a quién y cómo decirlo adecuadamente en cualquier situación dada.
El conocimiento social y cultural que permite a los oradores a usar e interpretar las formas lingüísticas.
A presentation covering what I think are the important points behind Freud's "Notes Upon The Mystic Writing Pad" and Murphie and Potts "Technology, Thought and Consciousness"
“C’mon – You Should Read This”: Automatic Identification of Tone from Languag...Waqas Tariq
Information extraction researchers have recently recognized that more subtle information beyond the basic semantic content of a message can be communicated via linguistic features in text, such as sentiments, emotions, perspectives, and intentions. One way to describe this information is that it represents something about the generator’s mental state, which is often interpreted as the tone of the message. A current technical barrier to developing a general-purpose tone identification system is the lack of reliable training data, with messages annotated with the message tone. We first describe a method for creating the necessary annotated data using human-based computation, based on interactive games between humans trying to generate and interpret messages conveying different tones. This draws on the use of game with a purpose methods from computer science and wisdom of the crowds methods from cognitive science. We then demonstrate the utility of this kind of database and the advantage of human-based computation by examining the performance of two machine learning classifiers trained on the database, each of which uses only shallow linguistic features. Though we already find near-human levels of performance with one classifier, we also suggest more sophisticated linguistic features and alternate implementations for the database that may improve tone identification results further.
Integrated approach for domain dimensional information retrieval system by us...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a research paper about developing an integrated information retrieval system using neural networks and domain dimensions. The system is intended to allow more precise searching within specific domains by utilizing each domain's own terminology and organizing information along dimensions. Neural networks are discussed as a technique for personalizing search results. Domain dimensions extract specialized vocabulary and semantic relationships within a domain to index documents and help users build targeted queries.
New approaches to openness – beyond open educational resourcesGrainne Conole
This document discusses new approaches to openness beyond Open Educational Resources (OER). It begins by discussing characteristics of social and participatory media and their implications for learning, teaching, and research. It then considers different facets of open practices across learning, teaching, and research. Some key aspects discussed include open educational practices (OEP), definitions and characteristics of OER, and how social and participatory media enable more open practices with implications for education.
Validation of Dunbar's number in Twitter conversationsaugustodefranco .
Bruno Goncalves1;2, Nicola Perra1;3, and Alessandro Vespignani1;2;4
1Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research,
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, IN 47408, USA
2Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University, IN 47404, USA
3Linkalab, Complex Systems Computational Lab. - 09100 Cagliari Italy and
4Institute for Scientic Interchange, Turin 10133, Italy
Maio 2011
Some futurists and artificial intelligence experts envision credible scenarios in which synthetic brains will, within this century, extend the functionality of our own brains to the point where they will rival and then surpass the power of an or-ganic human brain. At the same time, humans seem to have no limitations when it comes to finding ways to attack the computerized devices that others have invent-ed. Attackers have successfully compromised computers, mobile phones, ATMs, telephone networks, and even networked power grids. If neural devices fulfill the promise of treatment, and enhance our quality of lives and functionality—which appears likely, given the preliminary clinical success demonstrated from neuropros-thetics— their use and adoption will likely grow in the future. When this happens, inevitably, a wide variety of legal, security, and public policy concerns will follow. We will begin this article with an overview of brain implants and neural devic-es and their likely uses in the future. We will then discuss the legal issues that will arise from the intersection among neural devices, information security, cybercrime, and the law.
La Psicologia y aprendizaje de las Lenguas es un vocabulario, fonología, gramática, y otros aspectos de la estructura lingüística.
Al hacer uso de la palabra (o no), ¿qué decir a quién y cómo decirlo adecuadamente en cualquier situación dada.
El conocimiento social y cultural que permite a los oradores a usar e interpretar las formas lingüísticas.
Science, Technology and Society: The information age. All about the improvements of technology, how technology evolved, how science helped the technology and the society. And also how the life of the society makes easier because of science and technology. Science and Technology’s impact in todays world.
NHH - FRONT LINES ON ADOPTION OF DIGITAL AND AI-BASED SERVICES
November 5, 2023
Speaker: Jim Spohrer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/spohrer/)
Host: Tor Andreassen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tor-wallin-andreassen-1aa9031/)
Companion presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/issip/nhh-20231105-v6pptx
The document provides an overview of the early history and development of the World Wide Web. It discusses key figures and technologies that contributed to the Web, including:
- Tim Berners-Lee's invention of HTML, HTTP, and the first website in 1989 to solve the problem of knowledge management at CERN.
- Early computer networks like ARPANET and BBS communities that helped pioneer the concepts of distributed networks and online communities.
- The "Hyperland" documentary that envisioned many aspects of hypertext and digital media that would be realized by the Web.
- How the Web brought together networks, hypertext, and digital communities in a way that shaped its social and cultural impact.
Transmission Of Multimedia Data Over Wireless Ad-Hoc NetworksJan Champagne
This document discusses a cross-layer service discovery mechanism for OLSRv2 mobile ad hoc networks. It proposes using the OLSRv2 routing protocol to disseminate service advertisements across the network. When a node has a service to advertise, it includes the information in its OLSRv2 control messages which are then flooded to all nodes. Nodes can then lookup services of interest directly from the routing table entries without needing to run a separate service discovery protocol. This integrated approach leverages the existing routing structure to provide service discovery while minimizing overhead.
1) The document argues that if advanced civilizations in the future have immense computing power, they will likely run vast numbers of simulations of human history and people.
2) It follows that if this is the case, we should think it more likely that we are living in such a simulation rather than being part of the original biological civilization.
3) Unless we think it improbable that an advanced civilization would run such simulations, or that our species will reach such a stage, we must consider it most likely that we are currently living in a computer simulation.
Chaps29 the entirebookks2017 - The Mind MahineSyedVAhamed
In this chapter, we take bold step and propose the unthinkable: The genesis of a Customizable Mind Machine.
Thought that stems from the mind is deeply seated in a biological framework of neurons. The biological origin lies
in the marvel of evolution over the eons and refined ever so fast, faster than in the prior centuries. Three (a, b and
c), triadic objects are ceaselessly at work. At a personal level (a) Mind, knowledge and machines have been
intertwined like inspiration, words and language since the dawn of the human evolution and more recently (b)
technology, manufacturing and economics have formed a web for (c) wealth, global marketing and insatiable needs
of humans and civilization. These triadic cycles of nine essential objects of human existence are spinning quicker
and quicker every year. The Internet offers the mind no choice but to leap and soar over history and over the globe.
Alternatively, human mind can sink deeper and deeper into ignorance and oblivion. More recently, the Artificial
Intelligence at work in the Internet had challenged the natural intelligence at the cognizance level in the mind to find
its way to breakthroughs and innovations.
We integrate functions of the mind with the processing of knowledge in the hardware of machines by freely
traversing the neural, mental, physical, psychological, social, knowledge, and computational spaces. The laws of
neural biology and mind, laws of knowledge and social sciences and finally the laws of physics and mechanics, in
each of the spaces are unique and executed by distinctive processors for each space. Much as mind rules over
matter, the triad of mind, space and time creates a human-space that rules over the Relativistic-space of matter,
space and time.
Keywords—Mind, Knowledge, Machines, Technology, Human Needs, Knowledge Windows, Perceptual Spaces
Konica Minolta - Artificial Intelligence White PaperEyal Benedek
The evolution of artificial intelligence in the workplace
Since the first appearance of the words “artificial intelligence” more than 60 years ago, our imaginations have been sparked. Imagine creating computers that simulate human intelligence.
AI has the potential to profoundly influence our lives, perhaps to the point when our world can be better understood and even predicted. In workplaces we can develop systems through which AI may evolve. And Konica Minolta is progressing with the concept of intelligent hubs which will provide businesses with insight, support and greater collaboration.
By combining our core technologies with transformative solutions in the digital workplace, we’re evolving to become a problem-solving digital company creating new value for people and society.
The document discusses the past 50 years since the beginnings of cybernetics and its transformation of human evolution. It summarizes that cybernetics opened the floodgates to the information revolution but focused more on engineered systems than living systems. While technology advanced greatly, relying solely on artificial intelligence risks repeating dysfunctional patterns of thought. The next 50 years of cybernetics requires exploring living systems and evolutionary openings for humans by moving beyond an information age to an age of intelligence and communications that sees mind as permeating all systems. Three tasks are proposed: identifying important problems, forming innovation outposts to study living systems, and creating public narratives exploring cybernetics' insights.
1) The document discusses the evolution of artificial intelligence in workplaces and Konica Minolta's vision for cognitive hubs.
2) Konica Minolta sees the future workplace as a digital cortex created by connecting people, sensors and devices. They are developing AI and cognitive hubs to provide context-aware decision support in digital workplaces.
3) Konica Minolta's vision is to create an entirely new cyber-physical platform as a cognitive hub that aggregates physical and digital data to provide intelligence-based services.
The document discusses emerging technologies like molecular computing, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence that could lead to a technological singularity by 2045. It notes that computer power is doubling every year and hardware capable of human-level artificial intelligence may exist by 2030. The document also discusses how emerging technologies could transform medicine, enabling things like stem cell therapy, 3D printing of organs, nanorobots in the bloodstream, and backing up the human brain. It raises implications of longer lifespans for issues like retirement, family structures, religion, overpopulation, and the economy.
This document is an assignment submitted by Waseem Saeed to the Department of Business Administration at Allama Iqbal Open University for their Computer Application for Business course. It discusses the history and services of the Internet, including email, newsgroups, file transfer protocol, telnet, and the world wide web. It also describes different types of servers such as file servers, application servers, remote servers, slave servers, caching only servers, and proxy servers.
1. The document discusses how our current era is one of radical change due to new technologies like computers, similar to how the emergence of writing radically transformed humanity thousands of years ago.
2. It explores different perspectives on defining our current times, from information age to anthropocene to posthumanism. However, we do not fully understand the nature of information or computational processes.
3. The document also analyzes how the von Neumann architecture that underlies modern computers is similar to structures of power and control seen in ancient systems like Egyptian hieroglyphs, the military, and schools. It suggests these architectures framed human roles and relationships.
This document discusses the emergence of tools and practices to help people manage the growing amount of information and data. It describes how data visualization tools will play an important role, allowing people to interact with and find patterns in large datasets. These tools will include network diagrams, interactive visualizations that allow user comments and sharing, and visualizations created by foundations to communicate data to broad audiences. The document also notes that social filtering, ambient displays, agents and interfaces will be other important tools to help people cope with information overload in the coming decade.
This PowerPoint begins with a brief discussion regarding one of the origins to this discovery. Following the introduction is the advancement of the Internet to Web 3.0 and Civilization Progression through the Value Theory of Axiology.
Computer science fits into the categories of science, engineering, and liberal arts. As a science, it focuses on developing theories to explain computing in nature and abstract concepts. As an engineering discipline, it involves designing complex systems under constraints like managing human complexity limitations. As a liberal art, it utilizes language and builds upon traditions like logic, arithmetic, and geometry that have strong connections to computing.
247113920-Cognitive-technologies-mapping-the-Internet-governance-debateGoran S. Milovanovic
This document discusses cognitive technologies and their potential application to analyzing and mapping the complex debate around internet governance. It provides an overview of cognitive science and how developments in engineering and research have led to cognitive technologies that can mimic some human cognitive functions. As an example, it describes how text mining as an applied cognitive science can be used to discover meaningful patterns in large amounts of structured and unstructured data related to the internet governance debate. The document argues that cognitive technologies may help address the limits of human cognition when dealing with vast information from global governance processes and social issues involving thousands of actors.
The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. It allows for communication and sharing of information across the internet through web pages that are connected via hyperlinks. The Web revolutionized how people access and share information. It began as a system for sharing scientific research but grew exponentially to become a global platform encompassing many aspects of modern life.
Pervasive computing is defined as computing that is integrated into everyday objects and environments. It involves numerous computing devices that are casually accessible and often invisible, as well as mobile devices and ubiquitous network connectivity. A key goal is to gracefully integrate computing technology into human users' lives so that it recedes into the background. Realizing this vision will require contributions from various disciplines. The basic idea is linking physical objects to digital networks so that computing is liberated from devices like PCs and brought into everyday experiences. Early pioneers in the field include Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown. Literature on the topic builds on early work studying user mobility patterns using technologies like Bluetooth and analyzing data from mobile networks and geotagged photos.
Alan Turing first proposed the concept of artificial intelligence in 1950 and suggested computers could be taught to solve problems like humans. Early AI research was limited by computers' inability to store commands and programs. In the 1950s, the Logic Theorist program demonstrated rudimentary problem-solving skills. Advances in computing power and the introduction of machine learning algorithms and expert systems expanded AI research from the 1950s-1980s. Deep learning techniques in the 1980s and availability of neural networks in the 2000s enabled computers to learn from experience and tackle complex tasks in areas like language processing and computer vision.
Brainframes, digital technologies and connected intelligence -Derrick de Kerc...thiteu
The document discusses several key ideas around the transition to a digital economy and networked society:
1) Technology is decentralizing jobs and shifting from hardware to software. Information is becoming digitized and accessible online.
2) The internet allows for "swarm creativity" where many individuals collectively contribute to innovation in an uncoordinated way. Companies must share power and information with online communities.
3) Tagging and connecting information online allows for more personalized search and recommendations, as well as new forms of collaboration and knowledge sharing between individuals and groups.
4) The emerging digital economy is driven by user-generated content and empowerment online, with opportunities for individuals and communities to create value in new ways.
Science, Technology and Society: The information age. All about the improvements of technology, how technology evolved, how science helped the technology and the society. And also how the life of the society makes easier because of science and technology. Science and Technology’s impact in todays world.
NHH - FRONT LINES ON ADOPTION OF DIGITAL AND AI-BASED SERVICES
November 5, 2023
Speaker: Jim Spohrer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/spohrer/)
Host: Tor Andreassen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tor-wallin-andreassen-1aa9031/)
Companion presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/issip/nhh-20231105-v6pptx
The document provides an overview of the early history and development of the World Wide Web. It discusses key figures and technologies that contributed to the Web, including:
- Tim Berners-Lee's invention of HTML, HTTP, and the first website in 1989 to solve the problem of knowledge management at CERN.
- Early computer networks like ARPANET and BBS communities that helped pioneer the concepts of distributed networks and online communities.
- The "Hyperland" documentary that envisioned many aspects of hypertext and digital media that would be realized by the Web.
- How the Web brought together networks, hypertext, and digital communities in a way that shaped its social and cultural impact.
Transmission Of Multimedia Data Over Wireless Ad-Hoc NetworksJan Champagne
This document discusses a cross-layer service discovery mechanism for OLSRv2 mobile ad hoc networks. It proposes using the OLSRv2 routing protocol to disseminate service advertisements across the network. When a node has a service to advertise, it includes the information in its OLSRv2 control messages which are then flooded to all nodes. Nodes can then lookup services of interest directly from the routing table entries without needing to run a separate service discovery protocol. This integrated approach leverages the existing routing structure to provide service discovery while minimizing overhead.
1) The document argues that if advanced civilizations in the future have immense computing power, they will likely run vast numbers of simulations of human history and people.
2) It follows that if this is the case, we should think it more likely that we are living in such a simulation rather than being part of the original biological civilization.
3) Unless we think it improbable that an advanced civilization would run such simulations, or that our species will reach such a stage, we must consider it most likely that we are currently living in a computer simulation.
Chaps29 the entirebookks2017 - The Mind MahineSyedVAhamed
In this chapter, we take bold step and propose the unthinkable: The genesis of a Customizable Mind Machine.
Thought that stems from the mind is deeply seated in a biological framework of neurons. The biological origin lies
in the marvel of evolution over the eons and refined ever so fast, faster than in the prior centuries. Three (a, b and
c), triadic objects are ceaselessly at work. At a personal level (a) Mind, knowledge and machines have been
intertwined like inspiration, words and language since the dawn of the human evolution and more recently (b)
technology, manufacturing and economics have formed a web for (c) wealth, global marketing and insatiable needs
of humans and civilization. These triadic cycles of nine essential objects of human existence are spinning quicker
and quicker every year. The Internet offers the mind no choice but to leap and soar over history and over the globe.
Alternatively, human mind can sink deeper and deeper into ignorance and oblivion. More recently, the Artificial
Intelligence at work in the Internet had challenged the natural intelligence at the cognizance level in the mind to find
its way to breakthroughs and innovations.
We integrate functions of the mind with the processing of knowledge in the hardware of machines by freely
traversing the neural, mental, physical, psychological, social, knowledge, and computational spaces. The laws of
neural biology and mind, laws of knowledge and social sciences and finally the laws of physics and mechanics, in
each of the spaces are unique and executed by distinctive processors for each space. Much as mind rules over
matter, the triad of mind, space and time creates a human-space that rules over the Relativistic-space of matter,
space and time.
Keywords—Mind, Knowledge, Machines, Technology, Human Needs, Knowledge Windows, Perceptual Spaces
Konica Minolta - Artificial Intelligence White PaperEyal Benedek
The evolution of artificial intelligence in the workplace
Since the first appearance of the words “artificial intelligence” more than 60 years ago, our imaginations have been sparked. Imagine creating computers that simulate human intelligence.
AI has the potential to profoundly influence our lives, perhaps to the point when our world can be better understood and even predicted. In workplaces we can develop systems through which AI may evolve. And Konica Minolta is progressing with the concept of intelligent hubs which will provide businesses with insight, support and greater collaboration.
By combining our core technologies with transformative solutions in the digital workplace, we’re evolving to become a problem-solving digital company creating new value for people and society.
The document discusses the past 50 years since the beginnings of cybernetics and its transformation of human evolution. It summarizes that cybernetics opened the floodgates to the information revolution but focused more on engineered systems than living systems. While technology advanced greatly, relying solely on artificial intelligence risks repeating dysfunctional patterns of thought. The next 50 years of cybernetics requires exploring living systems and evolutionary openings for humans by moving beyond an information age to an age of intelligence and communications that sees mind as permeating all systems. Three tasks are proposed: identifying important problems, forming innovation outposts to study living systems, and creating public narratives exploring cybernetics' insights.
1) The document discusses the evolution of artificial intelligence in workplaces and Konica Minolta's vision for cognitive hubs.
2) Konica Minolta sees the future workplace as a digital cortex created by connecting people, sensors and devices. They are developing AI and cognitive hubs to provide context-aware decision support in digital workplaces.
3) Konica Minolta's vision is to create an entirely new cyber-physical platform as a cognitive hub that aggregates physical and digital data to provide intelligence-based services.
The document discusses emerging technologies like molecular computing, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence that could lead to a technological singularity by 2045. It notes that computer power is doubling every year and hardware capable of human-level artificial intelligence may exist by 2030. The document also discusses how emerging technologies could transform medicine, enabling things like stem cell therapy, 3D printing of organs, nanorobots in the bloodstream, and backing up the human brain. It raises implications of longer lifespans for issues like retirement, family structures, religion, overpopulation, and the economy.
This document is an assignment submitted by Waseem Saeed to the Department of Business Administration at Allama Iqbal Open University for their Computer Application for Business course. It discusses the history and services of the Internet, including email, newsgroups, file transfer protocol, telnet, and the world wide web. It also describes different types of servers such as file servers, application servers, remote servers, slave servers, caching only servers, and proxy servers.
1. The document discusses how our current era is one of radical change due to new technologies like computers, similar to how the emergence of writing radically transformed humanity thousands of years ago.
2. It explores different perspectives on defining our current times, from information age to anthropocene to posthumanism. However, we do not fully understand the nature of information or computational processes.
3. The document also analyzes how the von Neumann architecture that underlies modern computers is similar to structures of power and control seen in ancient systems like Egyptian hieroglyphs, the military, and schools. It suggests these architectures framed human roles and relationships.
This document discusses the emergence of tools and practices to help people manage the growing amount of information and data. It describes how data visualization tools will play an important role, allowing people to interact with and find patterns in large datasets. These tools will include network diagrams, interactive visualizations that allow user comments and sharing, and visualizations created by foundations to communicate data to broad audiences. The document also notes that social filtering, ambient displays, agents and interfaces will be other important tools to help people cope with information overload in the coming decade.
This PowerPoint begins with a brief discussion regarding one of the origins to this discovery. Following the introduction is the advancement of the Internet to Web 3.0 and Civilization Progression through the Value Theory of Axiology.
Computer science fits into the categories of science, engineering, and liberal arts. As a science, it focuses on developing theories to explain computing in nature and abstract concepts. As an engineering discipline, it involves designing complex systems under constraints like managing human complexity limitations. As a liberal art, it utilizes language and builds upon traditions like logic, arithmetic, and geometry that have strong connections to computing.
247113920-Cognitive-technologies-mapping-the-Internet-governance-debateGoran S. Milovanovic
This document discusses cognitive technologies and their potential application to analyzing and mapping the complex debate around internet governance. It provides an overview of cognitive science and how developments in engineering and research have led to cognitive technologies that can mimic some human cognitive functions. As an example, it describes how text mining as an applied cognitive science can be used to discover meaningful patterns in large amounts of structured and unstructured data related to the internet governance debate. The document argues that cognitive technologies may help address the limits of human cognition when dealing with vast information from global governance processes and social issues involving thousands of actors.
The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. It allows for communication and sharing of information across the internet through web pages that are connected via hyperlinks. The Web revolutionized how people access and share information. It began as a system for sharing scientific research but grew exponentially to become a global platform encompassing many aspects of modern life.
Pervasive computing is defined as computing that is integrated into everyday objects and environments. It involves numerous computing devices that are casually accessible and often invisible, as well as mobile devices and ubiquitous network connectivity. A key goal is to gracefully integrate computing technology into human users' lives so that it recedes into the background. Realizing this vision will require contributions from various disciplines. The basic idea is linking physical objects to digital networks so that computing is liberated from devices like PCs and brought into everyday experiences. Early pioneers in the field include Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown. Literature on the topic builds on early work studying user mobility patterns using technologies like Bluetooth and analyzing data from mobile networks and geotagged photos.
Alan Turing first proposed the concept of artificial intelligence in 1950 and suggested computers could be taught to solve problems like humans. Early AI research was limited by computers' inability to store commands and programs. In the 1950s, the Logic Theorist program demonstrated rudimentary problem-solving skills. Advances in computing power and the introduction of machine learning algorithms and expert systems expanded AI research from the 1950s-1980s. Deep learning techniques in the 1980s and availability of neural networks in the 2000s enabled computers to learn from experience and tackle complex tasks in areas like language processing and computer vision.
Brainframes, digital technologies and connected intelligence -Derrick de Kerc...thiteu
The document discusses several key ideas around the transition to a digital economy and networked society:
1) Technology is decentralizing jobs and shifting from hardware to software. Information is becoming digitized and accessible online.
2) The internet allows for "swarm creativity" where many individuals collectively contribute to innovation in an uncoordinated way. Companies must share power and information with online communities.
3) Tagging and connecting information online allows for more personalized search and recommendations, as well as new forms of collaboration and knowledge sharing between individuals and groups.
4) The emerging digital economy is driven by user-generated content and empowerment online, with opportunities for individuals and communities to create value in new ways.
Application frame methods and techniques in HighEd courses and self-paced lea...Stefano Lariccia
The document discusses the WE-COLLAB project at Sapienza University which aims to incorporate advanced digital technologies into courses and self-paced learning. It outlines goals to enhance an existing platform with text analysis, learning analytics collection, and mobile app functions. Potential applications include foreign language learning, linguistics, and language analysis for various fields. Future work includes evaluating learning data collected through student actions and physiological signals. Potential developments and challenges with AI-based technologies are also discussed, emphasizing the importance of experiential learning over passive consumption.
Application frame methods and techniques to include advanced digital technolo...Stefano Lariccia
The document discusses the WE-COLLAB project at Sapienza University which aims to extend the capabilities of the CommonSpaces platform to incorporate advanced digital technologies and learning analytics in higher education courses. Specifically, it focuses on adding features for (1) text analysis and content evaluation, (2) recording learning experience data during self-paced learning sessions, and (3) a mobile app to archive data from synchronous/asynchronous classes. These tools are well-suited for language learning, linguistics, and analyzing language, sentiment, and topics in various disciplines. The project also evaluates reliability of learning analytics data and explores potential future developments and conclusions.
Lo sviluppo torrenziale degli ultimi 20 anni di nuove tecnologie di rete e della contemporanea propensione ad utilizzarle (non sempre in maniera ottimale, ovviamente) apre le porte ad innumerevoli opportunità per progetti virtuosi di armonizzazione del territorio attraverso questo nuovo mix di tecnologia ed usi sociali governati ed incentivati.
Genius Loci EST Conference - O.Missikoff a renowned specialist of Digital Twin technology and applications, presents to the pubblic of a local conference what are potential applications of DT and what is it today state of the art of this tech sector.
C.Collicelli espone la storia e le caratteristiche dell'Alleanza Sviluppo Sostenibile in relazione al progetto Genius LOci per lo sviluppo del Turismo Sostenibile nella Tuscia
Andreas Schleicher presents PISA 2022 Volume III - Creative Thinking - 18 Jun...EduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education and Skills at the OECD presents at the launch of PISA 2022 Volume III - Creative Minds, Creative Schools on 18 June 2024.
THE SACRIFICE HOW PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTS STUDENTS ARE SACRIFICING TO CHANGE T...indexPub
The recent surge in pro-Palestine student activism has prompted significant responses from universities, ranging from negotiations and divestment commitments to increased transparency about investments in companies supporting the war on Gaza. This activism has led to the cessation of student encampments but also highlighted the substantial sacrifices made by students, including academic disruptions and personal risks. The primary drivers of these protests are poor university administration, lack of transparency, and inadequate communication between officials and students. This study examines the profound emotional, psychological, and professional impacts on students engaged in pro-Palestine protests, focusing on Generation Z's (Gen-Z) activism dynamics. This paper explores the significant sacrifices made by these students and even the professors supporting the pro-Palestine movement, with a focus on recent global movements. Through an in-depth analysis of printed and electronic media, the study examines the impacts of these sacrifices on the academic and personal lives of those involved. The paper highlights examples from various universities, demonstrating student activism's long-term and short-term effects, including disciplinary actions, social backlash, and career implications. The researchers also explore the broader implications of student sacrifices. The findings reveal that these sacrifices are driven by a profound commitment to justice and human rights, and are influenced by the increasing availability of information, peer interactions, and personal convictions. The study also discusses the broader implications of this activism, comparing it to historical precedents and assessing its potential to influence policy and public opinion. The emotional and psychological toll on student activists is significant, but their sense of purpose and community support mitigates some of these challenges. However, the researchers call for acknowledging the broader Impact of these sacrifices on the future global movement of FreePalestine.
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A Visual Guide to 1 Samuel | A Tale of Two HeartsSteve Thomason
These slides walk through the story of 1 Samuel. Samuel is the last judge of Israel. The people reject God and want a king. Saul is anointed as the first king, but he is not a good king. David, the shepherd boy is anointed and Saul is envious of him. David shows honor while Saul continues to self destruct.
Temple of Asclepius in Thrace. Excavation resultsKrassimira Luka
The temple and the sanctuary around were dedicated to Asklepios Zmidrenus. This name has been known since 1875 when an inscription dedicated to him was discovered in Rome. The inscription is dated in 227 AD and was left by soldiers originating from the city of Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv).
1. Being Human:
Language 2 Knowledge
An introduction to technological aspects of
the evolutionary process of
being or becoming human
2. Invention of writing [1.1]
See also: History of writing
Following the neolithic revolution, the pace of
technological development (cultural evolution)
intensified due to the invention of writing 5000
years ago.
Symbols that became words later on made
effective communication of ideas possible.
Printing invented only over a thousand years ago
increased the speed of communication
exponentially and became the main spring of
cultural evolution.
3. Invention of writing [1.2]
See also: History of writing
Writing is thought to have been first invented in
either Sumeria or Ancient Egypt and was initially
used for accounting. Soon after, writing was used
to record myth.
The first religious texts mark the beginning of
religious history. The Pyramid Texts from ancient
Egypt are one of the oldest known religious texts
in the world, dating to between 2400–2300 BCE.
4. Invention of writing [2]
Writing played a major role in
sustaining and spreading
organized religion. In pre-literate
societies, religious
ideas were based on an oral
tradition, the contents of which
were articulated by shamans
and remained limited to the
collective memories of the
society's inhabitants. With the
advent of writing, information
that was not easy to remember
could easily be stored in
sacred texts that were
maintained by a select group
(clergy).
5. Invention of writing [3.1]
Humans could store and process large
amounts of information with writing that
otherwise would have been forgotten.
Writing therefore enabled religions to
develop coherent and comprehensive
doctrinal systems that remained
independent of time and place.
Diamond, J. M. (1997). Guns,
Germs, and Steel: The Fates of
Human Societies (p. 480). W.W.
Norton.
6. Invention of writing [3.2]
Writing also brought a measure of
objectivity to human knowledge.
Formulation of thoughts in words
and the requirement for validation
made mutual exchange of ideas and
the sifting of generally acceptable
from not acceptable ideas possible.
The generally acceptable ideas
became objective knowledge
reflecting the continuously evolving
framework of human awareness of
reality that Karl Popper calls
'verisimilitude' – a stage on the
human journey to truth.
Diamond, J. M. (1997). Guns, Germs,
and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies (p. 480). W.W. Norton.
10. 3000 years past from the writing of
Sacred Scriptures ..
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12. 3000 years past from the writing of
Sacred Scriptures .. [1]
The Law of Accelerating Returns Applied to
the Growth of Computation
The following provides a brief overview of the law of
accelerating returns as it applies to the double exponential
growth of computation. This model considers the impact of
the growing power of the technology to foster its own next
generation. For example, with more powerful computers and
related technology, we have the tools and the knowledge to
design yet more powerful computers, and to do so more
quickly.
13. 3000 years past from the writing of
Sacred Scriptures .. [2]
The Law of Accelerating Returns Applied
to the Growth of Computation
Note that the data for the year 2000 and beyond
assume neural net connection calculations as it is
expected that this type of calculation will ultimately
dominate, particularly in emulating human brain
functions. This type of calculation is less expensive
than conventional (e.g., Pentium III / IV) calculations
by a factor of at least 100 (particularly if
implemented using digital controlled analog
electronics, which would correspond well to the
brain’s digital controlled analog electrochemical
processes). A factor of 100 translates into
approximately 6 years (today) and less than 6 years
later in the twenty-first century.
14. 3000 years past from the writing of
Sacred Scriptures .. [3]
The Law of Accelerating Returns Applied to the Growth of
Computation (Kurzweil, R)
My estimate of brain capacity is 100 billion neurons times an average
1,000 connections per neuron (with the calculations taking place primarily
in the connections) times 200 calculations per second. Although these
estimates are conservatively high, one can find higher and lower
estimates. However, even much higher (or lower) estimates by orders of
magnitude only shift the prediction by a relatively small number of years.
Some prominent dates from this analysis include the following:
We achieve one Human Brain capability (2 * 10^16 cps) for $1,000 around
the year 2023.
We achieve one Human Brain capability (2 * 10^16 cps) for one cent
around the year 2037.
We achieve one Human Race capability (2 * 10^26 cps) for $1,000 around
the year 2049.
We achieve one Human Race capability (2 * 10^26 cps) for one cent
around the year 2059.
17. Imitating Human Brain (1970-2010)
The Software of Intelligence
So far, I’ve been talking about the hardware
of computing. The software is even more
salient. One of the principal assumptions
underlying the expectation of the Singularity
is the ability of non-biological mediums to
emulate the richness, subtlety, and depth of
human thinking. Achieving the computational
capacity of the human brain, or even villages
and nations of human brains will not
automatically produce human levels of
capability. By human levels I include all the
diverse and subtle ways in which humans
are intelligent, including musical and artistic
aptitude, creativity, physically moving
through the world, and understanding and
responding appropriately to emotion. The
requisite hardware capacity is a necessary
but not sufficient condition. The organization
and content of these resources–the software
of intelligence–is also critical.
18. Imitating Human Brain (1970-2010)
The Software of Intelligence
Before addressing this issue, it is important
to note that once a computer achieves a
human level of intelligence, it will necessarily
soar past it. A key advantage of non-biological
intelligence is that machines can
easily share their knowledge. If I learn
French, or read War and Peace, I can’t
readily download that learning to you. You
have to acquire that scholarship the same
painstaking way that I did. My knowledge,
embedded in a vast pattern of
neurotransmitter concentrations and
interneuronal connections, cannot be quickly
accessed or transmitted. But we won’t leave
out quick downloading ports in our
nonbiological equivalents of human neuron
clusters. When one computer learns a skill or
gains an insight, it can immediately share
that wisdom with billions of other machines.
19. Surpassing Human Brain (2010-2030) [1]
The Software of Intelligence
As a contemporary example, we spent
years teaching one research computer
how to recognize continuous human
speech. We exposed it to thousands of
hours of recorded speech, corrected its
errors, and patiently improved its
performance. Finally, it became quite
adept at recognizing speech (I dictated
most of my recent book to it). Now if you
want your own personal computer to
recognize speech, it doesn’t have to go
through the same process; you can just
download the fully trained patterns in
seconds. Ultimately, billions of
nonbiological entities can be the master
of all human and machine acquired
knowledge.
20. Surpassing Human Brain (2010-2030) [2]
The Software of Intelligence
In addition, computers are potentially millions of
times faster than human neural circuits. A
computer can also remember billions or even
trillions of facts perfectly, while we are hard
pressed to remember a handful of phone
numbers. The combination of human level
intelligence in a machine with a computer’s
inherent superiority in the speed, accuracy, and
sharing ability of its memory will be formidable.
There are a number of compelling scenarios to
achieve higher levels of intelligence in our
computers, and ultimately human levels and
beyond. We will be able to evolve and train a
system combining massively parallel neural
nets with other paradigms to understand
language and model knowledge, including the
ability to read and model the knowledge
contained in written documents.
21. Surpassing Human Brain (2010-2030) [3]
The Software of Intelligence
Unlike many contemporary “neural net” machines,
which use mathematically simplified models of
human neurons, some contemporary neural nets
are already using highly detailed models of human
neurons, including detailed nonlinear analog
activation functions and other relevant details.
Although the ability of today’s computers to extract
and learn knowledge from natural language
documents is limited, their capabilities in this
domain are improving rapidly.
Computers will be able to read on their own,
understanding and modeling what they have read,
by the second decade of the twenty-first century.
We can then have our computers read all of the
world’s literature–books, magazines, scientific
journals, and other available material. Ultimately,
the machines will gather knowledge on their own
by venturing out on the web, or even into the
physical world, drawing from the full spectrum of
media and information services, and sharing
knowledge with each other (which machines can
do far more easily than their human creators).