Two last things:
Here is the link to the proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium papers, in case you are interested.
Below a picture of myself (the first poster on the left, the guy with the white t-shirt, hidden by one of the participants) doing a presentation of the STAMPS project.
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(Here we are … once again)
The Italian Government fired Carlo Rubbia, president of the ENEA (Italian Institute for Alternative Energies) and Nobel prize for physics. The origin of the fight was an open letter that the president published on one of the main Italian journals: Repubblica. In this letter, the scientist, made public the impasse the he was living with the executive council. In fact, a number of politicians nominated by the government was acting completely against the ideas and projects that the president was stimulating and promoting. The result was a lost of significant amount of founding from the european commission, and the drift of control of Italy’s primate projects such as Antarctica among others.
If you happen to read Italian, here is the full story.
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Last day of the context conference. Joelle Coutaz open the day with an interesting talk about using context in human computer interaction design. Here are my running notes.
Lots of nice talk on the forth day of the conference. I particularly appreciated the talk by Larry Bersalou on Situated Simulation in the Human Conceptual system. Another interesting work by Frederic Landragin on Modelling Contextfor Referring in multimodal systems. Here are my running notes.
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Dan Sperber, in front of the laptop.
Going to the restaurant.
Setting up the next presentation.
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The SOM is an algorithm used to visualize and interpret large high-dimensional data sets. Typical applications are visualization of process states or financial results by representing the central dependencies within the data on the map.
The map consists of a regular grid of processing units, “neurons”. A model of some multidimensional observation, eventually a vector consisting of features, is associated with each unit. The map attempts to represent all the available observations with optimal accuracy using a restricted set of models. At the same time the models become ordered on the grid so that similar models are close to each other and dissimilar models far from each other. [url]
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First day of the conference. Lots of interesting ideas, especially the talk by Dan Sperber on massive modular systems. The running notes are available here. Some extra links:
One interesting paper by Adrian Flanagan about a learning algorithm for inferring meaningful places. Another project done in the group of U. Hoppe on the ontology facilitated community navigation [url]. The last one an italian project combining the classical architecture of multi agent system with a power consumption model [url].
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Yesterday I attended the doctoral consortium. Lots of nice talks and projects. I particularly enjoyed the presentation of Andreas Zimmermann about A Context-Management Infrastracture for Ubiquitous Computing Environments and Mario Pichler on Supporting communities in the wild. Here are my running notes of the day.
