Scientists, Ye Pedantic Jerks

Scientists, Ye Pedantic Jerks

Academics pay a lot of attention to the quality of their writings. It is generally a point of pride to publish flawless documents, and this is felt in scientific disciplines just as much as in…
Clarity Systems Releases CLARITY 7(TM)

Clarity Systems Releases CLARITY 7(TM)

TORONTO, May 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarity Systems, a leader in corporate performance management (CPM) and external reporting solutions, today released CLARITY 7, the latest release of the only…
The Next Fifty Years of Science

The Next Fifty Years of Science

The scientific method which provides us with so many technological goodies does not resemble the science of 1600. Ever since Bacon, science has undergone a slow evolution. Landmarks in the history of…
The Cyc Lexicon

The Cyc Lexicon

The Cyc knowledge base (KB) is a formalized representation of a vast quantity of fundamental human knowledge: facts, rules of thumb, and heuristics for reasoning about the objects and events of…
Leibniz, Complexity and Incompleteness

Leibniz, Complexity and Incompleteness

I will discuss Leibniz's ideas on complexity (Discours de metaphysique, 1686), leading to modern work on program-size complexity, the halting probability and incompleteness. Leibniz's principle of…
Understanding Visual Scenes

Understanding Visual Scenes

One remarkable aspect of human vision is the ability to understand the meaning of a novel image or event quickly and effortlessly. Within a single glance, we can comprehend the semantic category of a…
The fourth dimension

The fourth dimension

Mathematician Ludwig Schläfli talks to us about objects in the fourth dimension and shows us a procession of regular polyhedra in dimension 4, strange objects with 24, 120 and even 600 faces! Watch…