GreatMindsWorking.com is a site dedicated to news from fields including A.I., computational linguistics, robotics, developmental psychology, machine learning, and cognitive science, with special focus on language-related technologies.

This site also provides information about Experience-Based Language Acquisition (EBLA), the software system that I developed as part of my dissertation research at the LSU Department of Computer Science.

Brian E. Pangburn
May 27, 2003

Closing in on the Turing Test?

Well, its been over a year so I guess its time for a new post...

The TimesOnline brings news of this years Loebner Prize competition. Appears the machines are closing in on us.

Slashdot discussion may be found here.

Be sure to look for another new story here in 2009!

Computer Program can Learn "Baby Talk"

Yahoo News has posted this article entitled " Computer program can learn baby talk"

SCALE 5x - Open Source Conference In Los Angeles This Week

SCALE 5x, the 2007 Southern California Linux Expo will be held in Los Angeles, CA this weeken On Feb 9-11, 2007. It will include: 50+ seminars, 70+ exhibitors, BoFs, and more. Highlighted speakers will include Chris Dibona, Don Marti, Ted Haeger, Jono Bacon, and others. Exhibitors include: Dell, IBM, Verio, Redhat, GroundWork Open Source, ReactOS, Haiku OS, and PostgreSQL. One lucky attendee will win a Dual Xeon 1U Rackmount Server from Silicon Mechanics. Two other conference to be held on Friday Feb 9th include: Women In Open Source, and Open Source Health Care Summit.

SCALE 5x - Registration Now Open

SCALE 5X, the 2007 Southern California Linux Expo has opened for attendee registration. Early bird registration runs through January 24th. Join us for over 40 seminars and tutorials. Presentations from Chris Dibona, Ted Haeger, Don Marti, and more! Expo floor will include exhibits by IBM, Dell, Google, Krugle, Ingres, Trolltech, and others. SCALE 5x will be held in Los Angeles, CA on Feb 10-11, 2007.

DARPA Speech Translation Engine Project

Slashdot discussion of new DARPA Speech Translation Engine Project can be found here.

ACL sponsored SURVEY OF NLP COURSES

Back in 2003 the ACL Sponsored a survey of NLP Courses. The website has gone away, but the ACL has extracted the raw data and converted it into a Wikipedia entry

IEEE SLT 2006 - Spoken Language Technology Workshop

IEEE SLT 2006 - Spoken Language Technology Workshop to be held @ Aruba Marriott, December 10-13, 2006. More info here.

Automated Image Tagging

Slashdot article on automated image tagging @ Penn State.

SCALE 5x Issues Call For Papers

Preparing for its 5th annual event, SCALE 5x, the Southern California Linux Expo has issued a call for papers. SCALE 5x will be held on Feb 10-11, 2007 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. Past speakers have included Chris Dibona, Jon "maddog" Hall, and Andrew Morton. If you are working on an interesting open-source / Linux related project, or just want to address the community SCALE welcomes you to submit a presentation proposal.

CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2006

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IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

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