February 2009
4 posts
“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot”
– Werner Herzog. Discussion and Film Concert at Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles. 20 February 2009
Lazy webs
My friend Karen Van Godtsenhoven asked me some questions about the semantic web (and how it is related to laziness), for the latest issue of The Word Magazine. To read the article, go to the online issue (January-February 2009). The article is on pages 44-47. Alternatively you can download a PDF of the article. You can also find The Word in print, in Belgium and in good bookstores worldwide.
“If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it’s good enough for us.”
– A man in the Tulsa Motel 6 swimming pool. (From Harper’s Notebook, February 2009)
Review: "Revisiting the Age of Enlightenment from...
This week, I had the pleasure to read a manuscript titled “Revisiting the Age of Enlightenment from a Collective Decision Making Systems Perspective”, recently authored by my friends and colleagues Marko A. Rodriguez and Jennifer H. Watkins at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The authors present agent-based simulations of two collective decision making systems that can be used for...