Monthly Archives: May 2010

I have been concerned with how to vote in the upcoming UK general election. I want this to be a responsible vote and it may have to be a balance between national parties and local issues. Currently I have no … Continue reading →

This document is being dictated to Arcturus. I have just dictated about half an hour’s work (with some struggle and the need to teach the machine new words) when some command was interpreted as “destroy all work up to now … Continue reading →

This blog is dictated On Thursday I shall vote in the general election. I have voted in every election that I have been able to and I think this is the most important of all. Because the future of democracy … Continue reading →

In my postprandial presentation at Churchill College I stressed the importance of natural language in Artificial Intelligence – and the more I think of this, the more important I believe natural language will be in communicating with computers. I am … Continue reading →

A major part of my scientific work appears to have been condemned to rot in the dungeons of the Web because of the failure of large vested interests to try to work together. 5 years ago I created a tool … Continue reading →

Dictated to Arcturus (my computer) I had a wonderful comment on one of my recent posts book publishers says: May 2, 2010 at 3:41 am  (Edit) What a beautiful map of living systems, reminds me of a maze – thanks for … Continue reading →

Last night I was invited to give an after dinner talk (or postprandial) at Churchill College (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_College,_Cambridge). These occasions are relaxed and individual presentations of things related to the interests of the speaker. My presentation was called “Can machines understand … Continue reading →