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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 →

According to an article today the US Army has declared war on PowerPoint: http://www.metro.co.uk/home/823839-american-army-declares-war-on-microsoft-powerpoint The problem is, apparently, this diagram. I reproduce it without permission but since it is presumably a work of the US government, albeit highly creative, it … Continue reading →

This is a test of dictating a block in a very noisy coffee room. I have just bought a cost effective headset with a noise canceling microphone and so far every word that I have dictated has been faithfully rendered … Continue reading →

I have left my microphone so this is being typed. Egon Willighagen asked whether it was possible to post documents created with Chem4Word to a blog. Having mastered the process of posting to a blog without chemistry (thanks Sam) I’m … Continue reading →

I am giving a talk on Friday where I want to show the power and wow! of the Semantic Web applied to Science through an online example. I’d be keen on a DBPedia example (along the lines of http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess#h28-5 with … Continue reading →