MishMash

Artificial Intelligence? Pah.

Long ago Dad introduced me to a quote, which he believes to have been first uttered by a head of the AI group at the University of Edinburgh.

Artificial it may be, Intelligence it most certainly isn't. [Source unknown]

I have in the past found Google to be quite effective at locating sources of quotes for me. In this case it is of no assistance whatsoever. If anyone has any leads on this, I'd love to know. If not, you heard it here first.

Spread your wings and fly, little meme.

Model Theism

Model Theism: Belief in any particular model of reality.

Tube-map with "walklines"

Via Boing Boing: experimental Tube maps showing stations which are an easy walk apart.

Multi-Modal Meeting Manager (M4)

Funny that this came up this morning, as today's job is summrising a meeting that took place three weeks ago. OK, OK, I should have done it straight away, but I want to have had one of these.

From Cordis:

The IST-funded Multi-Modal Meeting Manager (M4) project will demonstrate a prototype system that can automatically analyse a meeting in terms of both its structure and content. The system enables an archive of suitable-analysed meetings to be browsed in terms of, for example, who said what during multi-party conversations, what was stated during the various phases (presentations, action lists, summaries, etc.), and more.

This ties back into the discussion about metadata collection [Earl Mardle]. If I could push an annotated archive of FloodRiskNet meetings out onto the web almost as soon as the meeting was over, well, that would be quite cool.

Of course, at the last FloodRiskNet meeting, we split into four groups, so we'd have needed four of these. Prohibitively expensive at the moment, I suspect.

PlanetWide ScanMe

ScanMe is a service (in Australia) which you can redirect your post to. They will scan it and send you the scans by email, then forward the actual post when you tell them where to send it to. Neat idea. [Via Slashdot]