December 7, 2008
Gary Riley’s comment here on November 6 alerted me to a book that I didn’t have: The Engineering of Knowledge-Based Systems: Theory and Practice by Avelino J. Gonzalez and Douglas D. Dankel. So, I went to Amazon to track it down. The book is out of print, so I purchased a used copy.
When my copy arrived a little while ago, I quickly noticed that the owner’s name written inside the cover was that of John Durkin, the noted author of Expert Systems: Design and Development. I spotted it quickly since at a previous employer this book (along with Gary Riley’s book) was used in both internal and external training.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
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 6, 2008
[Very busy at work right now, so posts will taper off until I get to the holiday at the end of the month. That said, I do have some 20+ posts drafted. Rest assured, more content is on the way.]
Being a member of the IEEE, I regularly browse the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum. The most recent issue (December 2008) includes an article entitled “Bots Get Smart” by Jonathan Schaeffer, Vadim Bulitko, and Michael Buro. The main topic of the article is the improving of game AI in order to provide better experiences for players.
One of the parts that stood out to me was this paragraph:
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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 12, 2008
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
November 3, 2008
On October 22-24, I attended the (first?) October Rules Fest. I think something like this is long overdue. In fact, it is so overdue that I’m working to overcome my instinctive cynicism that the event will be unable to continue.
The community owes the organizers a round of thanks. Thank you: James, Rolando and Greg. It’s also my understanding that Mark Proctor helped get the ball rolling. Thanks, Mark.
Here are some of the reasons why I think the conference was/is valuable:
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