NA-CAP 2007
I recently went to NA-CAP 2007 at Loyola University in Chicago. Since I lack the time to write much about it, here is an interesting short report on it by Matt Butcher, one of the participants.
Some Free Online Teaching Tools
At the recent NA-CAP conference, I was reminded of two nice teaching tools that are available online for free:Inquiry, mostly developed by Peter Bradley (currently at McDaniel College, though the bulk of the project was carried out at Washington University in St. Louis).The Mind Project (check especially under curriculum), mostly developed by David …
Giving Conservative Scientists a Bad Name
Have you ever cringed at the cavalier way your students cite Wikipedia? Wait until they start citing Conservapedia. Conservapedia is an online encyclopedia modeled after Wikipedia, but ostensibly aimed at promoting a “conservative” point of view. Unfortunately for scientifically literate conservatives, what these people seem to mean by promoting “conservatism” …
Building Remote Controls for Brains
Using genetic engineering, photosensitive proteins, and light. In today’s NYTimes.
Multiple realization of quantum computation?
A couple of weeks ago I went to this year’s TSC in Budapest. While I didn’t enjoy it as much as I did last time in Copenhagen (though Budapest, even during a heat wave, was quite enjoyable), I liked some of the talks, as in the discussion, you can hear …
Computing Mechanisms
My paper “Computing Mechanisms”, which articulates and defends an account of what it takes for physical systems to perform computations (in the sense of computability theory and computer science), has been accepted in Philosophy of Science. I will go over it and revise it one more time before sending the …
Mathematical Models of Cognitive Behaviour
For your information:Workshop Announcement – Call for ParticipationMathematical Models of Cognitive BehaviourAvon Gorge Hotel, BristolNovember 9th, 2007 (9am – 5pm)https://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/cognitive-systems-workshopWorkshop of the Pascal Network of Excellence and the euCognition NetworkProbabilistic approaches to Artificial Intelligence have becomemainstream in the past decade. Statistical methods are routinely usedin machine learning, machine translation, machine …