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Are computers making us stupid?
In 1996, I listened to Lofty Zadeh, the daddy of fuzzy logic, give his keynote speech at the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Design’ conference, Stanford University. He described the excitment of artificial intelligence in the 1950s and how Marvin Minsky, father … Continue reading
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Stalkers in space and Facebook in your face
I created my first webpage in 1995, which has since disappeared forever as even www.archive.org thinks it’s too old to store. Fingers poised over my keyboard, I felt shy about what to write. Eventually, I restricted myself to my research … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour, facebook, flickr, Musings, social networking, stalkers, virtual communities, web 2.0
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Academic papers
Stalker I., Stalker-Firth, R., Fraga, E. (2003), Engineer-Computer Interaction for Automated Process Design in COGents, ESCAPE 13, August, Finland [pdf] Stalker, R., and Smith, I. (2002), Structural Monitoring using Engineer-Computer Interaction, Special Edition, Human-computer Interaction in Engineering Contexts, Artificial Intelligence … Continue reading
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