www.greatmindsworking.com

This Slashdot article discusses how "A team of neuroscientists at MIT have made tremendous progress in understanding how birds learn to sing: a part of the brain called the basal ganglia is primarily responsible for controlling the learning of movement and the production of speech. This circuitry is also present in humans, and it is the same way that a baby's random babbling eventually becomes the proficient speech of adults."

KurzweilAI has a link to this TRN article about work being done at the MIT Media Lab to boost speech recognition performance using the Open Mind Common Sense Project database.

Slashdot has coverage of this article entitled "Learning a Language in the Digital Age" It is a discussion of some techniques & tools available for learning a language, written by someone who has learned "three dead languages in the past six years (Latin, Egyptian, and Akkadian)."

The Journal of Natural Language Engineering has issued a call for papers for a special issue on Educational Applications. More info here.

This New Scientist article discusses new translation software which learns to translate based on existing translations. From the article, "Most existing translation software uses hand-coded rules for transposing words and phrases. But the new software, developed by Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu at the Information Sciences Institute, part of the University of Southern California, US, takes a statistical approach, building probabilistic rules about words, phrases and syntactic structures."

KurzweilAI has a link to this Technology Review overview of Doug Lenat, Cycorp, & the CYC Commonsense knowledge base.

Finally got the default site themes GMSilver & GMOlive working with the latest PostNUKE.

Patched the site today based on PostNuke Security Advisory PNSA 2005-1. More info here.

Just upgraded the site to version .750 (Phoenix) and everything seems to be working OK. It will however take some doing to make the old themes compatible.

2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05)

September 19-22, 2005
Compiegne University of Technology, France

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/
http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/

Sponsored By:
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)