Five questions with Saatviga Sudhahar
We present a short interview with Saatviga Sudhahar who presented a talk at the PASCAL sponsored 2nd Workshop on Applications of Pattern Analysis 2011. She is working on a system for large scale quantitative narrative analysis (QNA) of news corpora, which includes various recent ideas from text mining and pattern analysis in order to solve Read more...
Francois Caron – behind the scene of MLSS 2011
In this blog we are happy to present an interview we had with François Caron, a crew member of the Machine Learning Summer School 2011 – Bordeaux. The interview was done a few weeks ago but got published only at this moment. The MLSS school provides interesting tutorials and practical sessions on basic and advanced Read more...
DAY1 – Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments
Today was the first day of the “Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments” that is taking place from November 28 – December 2, 2011 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence. The school seeks to bring together Read more...
Interview with Michael Witbrock from Cycorp
Michael Witbrock is a computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. A native of New Zealand, he currently lives in Austin, Texas, and is the current Vice President of Research at Cycorp, and CEO Cycorp d.o.o in Ljubljana, Slovenia which is carrying out the Cyc project in an effort to produce a genuine Artificial Read more...
In technology I trust
We are moving to a Darwinian technology elimination round. We are consuming information environments at the speed of light; in this semantic web we are sedating our individual identity. When Herbert Spencer coined the phrase “survival of the fittest” after reading Darwin’s On the Origin of Species whereas Darwin’s emphasis was purely on Read more...
Olaf A. Schulte on Matterhorn, Opencast and ETH Zürich Multimedia Services
Only recently the Opencast community has re-elected their new board members, among those who have served since the launch of the project in 2009 was also Mitja Jermol one of the Program Managers at VideoLectures.NET. In this blog we will present you a video interview we had with Olaf A. Schulte who is Head of Read more...