Thu 09 May 2002 14:35
I got off work at 1305-- an hour and ahalf later I am only getting to my work.
emailed sophia-- & my web email is causing headaches.
Things to write-- but I wish to make some progress on AI / grad study issue.
room issue is impending.
otherwise, things are nice.
!!
from:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56499-2002May8.html
from slashdot
Shneiderman thinks visual tools are what will let humans master
computers. If he's right, the next-generation Internet may have fewer
software "robots" than most pundits predict. Or if software agents do
catch on, visual tools may be how we control them.
The air in this room is not good...
math 308 or 318, stat 390, and 300 level math class.
9cr
cse 143
321
--1q
322
326
341
370
--2q
378 4
473 3
403 4
421 3
431 3
--3q
7 more credits.
--1 year, 1 quarter.
4,419 * 3 + 3300 = 16557
Goal: to be a place where I can take classes--work/research/learn. AI, something like it.
Would I work for Mike Full time in Q/A for one year?
I've got to get into research.
research programming-- in programming working on the edge.
2002-05-09-1725
If I were a student at the UW, back years ago, I would simply register for courses, and begin taking CS classes.
Now, it is not that simple.
I don't wish to be a professor or a teacher (in person).
I wish to spend time as a research programmer on interesting research.
I have chosen affective computing as an area which I would like to be a
reasearch programmer. As opposed to say, compiler optimization.
I have time, and access to the resources of NYC. Even though I cannot
simply register for classes at a good univ, and start that way. I can
start this fall, at a perhaps below par Univ. It could be a stepping
stone to something better-- like that computer vision job in State
College, PA for example.
I should go speak to the CUNY Graduate Center CS dept about my interests. Tomorrow - make appointment.
we should also research the area as if we had a project?
earlier...
(9) Emotion: I am interested in developments in all fields that advance
our understanding of the experience of emotion. I am interested in
attempts to give artificial entities (e.g. software) emotion and
emotion recognizing ability. I find Affect Control Theory thought
provoking, though I am not yet very familiar with it.
earlier...
The mystery is no longer "what is meaningful experience?" it is now,
"How does one come to perceive an experience as emotionally rewarding?"
Emotion, then, or more explicitly, the process of valuing, is the next
area to explore. Why does a child pick up a leaf when she is walking
along, carry it with her, and then cry when it breaks? How does it
happen that a person could be absolutely apathetic about existence? How
can that person come to experience emotional involvement in living
again?
Perhaps emotional development in childhood is like language
development. We are excited about all sorts of things and then we learn
to only be excited about a few. A lot of emotional experience seems
easy enough to understandóthe most emotionally drawing experiences are
those that we would expect from an evolutionary perspective to be most
reinforcing. Few things can be more emotionally rewarding than
involvement with a responsive partner in an intimate relationship. On
the other hand, for a person in an environment she perceives as
absolutely unresponsive to her, apathy is understandable.
Now that the question, "What is the experience of meaning in life?" is
a question of understanding the emotional basis for valuing an
experience, the area we need to work on is a more clear. We should be
able to make significant progress.
robotics?
http://robotics.usc.edu/~maja/note.html
I am currently not taking new students. Only if you already have a
strong background in control and/or learning in distributed mobile or
humanoid robotics or in modeling human activity, contact me by email.
Please read about the USC PhD program admissions policy before sending
email.
2002-05-09-2107
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/edsinger/research.htm
What do we do here?
If you ask me, we are investigating some of the fundamental questions
that have driven philosophers and priests and artists and scientists
nuts for centuries.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/people.html
Juan Velasquez
Graduate Student
I am interested in understanding affect from a computational
perspective. Drawing inspiration from work in Psychology, Neuroscience,
and Ethology, I have been developing control architectures for some of
our robots that rely on the use of computational models of affective
processes to integrate and coordinate other models and systems that
mediate perception, motivation, attention, behavior selection,
learning, and motor control.
jvelas@ai.mit.edu
Brian Scassellati
Graduate Student
I am building a theory of mind for our humanoid robots. My interests
also include using robotics as a tool for evaluating models from human
development, machine vision, and social skill development. I am also
the contact person for the Cog project.
scaz ai.mit.edu
I believe that robot autonomy is essential for rewarding robot-human relationships. Naoki Sadakuni
--
I was an idiot when I said:
regarding abandoned city-owned property
it was in dc regarding abandoned private property rather.
I overate at 0100 or so and ran off gas not feeling hungry for most of the day.
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swarming robots
learning to see the reversible hanging wire cube.
use of 3ds max character studio for emotion/expression generation..
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