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Yearly Archives: 2008

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  1. NRC study questions use of datamining for counterterrorism

    UMBC ebiquity - Oct 7, 2008

    The National Research Council released a report on the effectiveness of collecting and mining personal data, such as such as phone, medical, and travel records or Web sites visited, as a tool for combating terrorism

    Tagged: nrc, datamining

  2. Chatterbots vie for $100K Loebner Prize

    UMBC ebiquity - Oct 5, 2008

    On Sunday October 12, six computer chatterbots will sit down with six human judges at the University of Reading and try to convince them that they are not machines, but humans. The winner might take away the grand

    Tagged: ai, agents

  3. You call *that* a weird course?

    UMBC ebiquity - Oct 5, 2008

    Over on the UMBC GAIM Blog, Marc Olano wrote about UMBC Art 380, a required class in our game track that was in the Baltimore Sun’s Weird 101: Baltimore’s unusual college courses. History and Theory of Games @

    Tagged: gaim, umbc

  4. Barski on How To Tell Stuff To Your Computer

    UMBC ebiquity - Oct 3, 2008

    Conrad Barski, M.D. will give a talk on “How To Tell Stuff To Your Computer — The Enigmatic Art of Knowledge Representation” at UMBC at 1:00pm on Friday 17 October in Lecture Hall 8 in the ITE building. Barski

    Tagged: kr, ai, semantic web, ontologies

  5. Guess who is coming to grad school?

    UMBC ebiquity - Oct 2, 2008

    UMBC alumnus Alark Joshi (PhD 2007) pointed out this great comic yesterday on Jorge Cham’s Phdcomics site. It shows one upside to the current financial crisis. Now that might sound self-serving, since I am part of the

    Tagged: humor, policy, semantic web

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