December 7, 2008
Clearing out some of the backlog of drafts, it seems I have one more post on this topic to wrap up…
Here are some thoughts on content for future October Rules Fest gatherings. This is, of course, highly subjective.
In general, I think James Owen shouldn’t have to bear the burden of organizing all the content. I think there should be a small panel of folks to solicit, select and approve the content. In addition, I think there should be plenty of lead time and slides should have to be presented in advance. Better yet, let’s have real papers rather than just PPT slides.
As my friend Larry says “it’s still the wild west”. The spectrum of talks that can be given is still very wide. Here are some topics I would like to see included.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
December 7, 2008
These days, I tend to err on the side of saying less about what we are working on. In general, my current approach is one of only talking about products that have already shipped or topics where I can point towards published materials. That’s part of joining a new company and learning what you can and can’t talk about – so I err on the side of caution these days.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
December 7, 2008
Jim Sinur of Gartner has a fairly recent post where he surveys the platform players and their recent acquisitions of rules technologies. Jim looks at each player and gives his opinions on their offerings, the technology they purchased, and what they will likely do with it.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
December 6, 2008
Many thanks to those readers who participated in the Microsoft BizTalk BRE survey that Charles Young pointed to in his blog.
In the future, I will endeavor to link to such surveys from this blog as well.
Charles mentioned in his post that he would liked to have seen a more “forward looking” survey, but hasn’t (as yet) followed up with any clarifications.
If you missed the survey, or have comments regarding it – I would love to hear from you.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
November 17, 2008
I may be in the minority, but I would prefer something a little more structured than the October Rules Fest 2008 call for suggestions.
If I was authoring a feedback form for the conference, I would solicit feedback for a number of key areas. I will outline some of those areas below. This is obviously not a finished feedback form. Some of these are free-form-answer questions and some should be multiple choice. That said, if you attended and are planning to provide feedback to the organizers, consider addressing some of these areas in your comments.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
November 17, 2008
Photos from the October Rules Fest 2008 are trickling onto Flickr.
I will update this post when more photos surface.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
November 15, 2008
While I’m on the subject of Dr. Charles Forgy’s talk at ORF 2008…
Has anybody tried to compile CLIPS under CUDA?
We know from ORF that Dr. Forgy is working on a 4-core machine with his parallel version of OPS/J. I’m curious to see the same ideas applied to 32+ core video cards such as the CUDA architecture and the upcoming Larrabee.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
November 14, 2008
Since I have already linked to my employer once today, I might as well post this too.
There is a series of challenges involving the programming of simulated robots at our RoboChamps site. Working with simulated robots should be familiar to those of us who have worked with RoboCup (or the simulated version) or TankSoar. The challenges include such tasks as navigating a maze, driving in an urban environment, sumo wrestling against another robot, and more. A soccer challenge looks to be coming soon under the name “Tournament”.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
November 12, 2008
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