Rise of Big Data, Machine Learning and Data Mining

My approach in artificial intelligence have primarily been symbolic, and, in prior posts on AI, I indicated my skepticism on machine learning and other statistical techniques as a valid long-term approach to solving problems. With supervised learning techniques, it was possible to construct a function from inputs to output by

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Read more » Jan 26, 2012, 7:16AM

Microsoft AI Initiatives

Several computer science classes focus on algorithms. These include classes in data structures, artificial intelligence, computer graphics and numerical computing. Some of these data structures are quite involved and I have felt that they should be incorporated inside system libraries. Many of the classical data structures have in the 1990s

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Read more » Jan 25, 2012, 1:42AM
AI

Conversational Interfaces Redux

In the past, I have talked about conversational interfaces with posts like the “Turing Test and the Loebner Prize Competition.” My interests are not purely theoretical, as I have actively explored integrating natural language deeply into applications in such ways as interpreting all text inside documents and code files and

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Read more » Jan 23, 2012, 6:09AM
AI , Natural Language , Technology

The Computers and Internet of Yesteryear

The underlying experiences that we obtain from using computers and the Internet may not be as alien to prior generations as we may think. Things are faster and smaller, but not fundamentally different. Many complex systems have been with us around for millennia albeit in somewhat different forms: the rule

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Read more » Jan 14, 2012, 5:35PM
Technology