Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 454.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (60)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Ted Selker, MIT media Lab on _Context Aware
Computing_: Can implicit communication with computers
be more useful
[2] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (56)
dortmund.de>
Subject: _Mind versus Computer_
[3] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (28)
Subject: Lecture by Searle 2/2/01
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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 08:23:19 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Ted Selker, MIT media Lab on _Context Aware Computing
Dear humanists fellows,
[Hi, I thought --this might interest you --fowarded via HCI Center of
Stanford University. -Arun]
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:27:10 -0700
From: Terry Winograd <winograd@cs.stanford.edu>
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Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
Home page: http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar
Video: http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses
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Friday, November 3, 2000 , 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN
Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab
selker@media.mit.edu
<http://www.media.mit.edu/context/>
TITLE: Context Aware Computing; Can implicit communication with computers
be more useful than explicit communication?
ABSTRACT:
The familiar and useful come from things we recognize. Many of our favorite
things appearances communicates their use; they show the change in their value
though patina. As technologists we are now poised to imagine a world where
computing objects communicate with us in-situ; where we are. We use our
looks, feelings, and actions to give the computer the experience it needs
to work with us.
Keyboards and mice will not continue to dominate computer user interfaces.
Keyboard input will be replaced in large measure by systems that know what
we want and require less explicit communication. Sensors are gaining
fidelity and ubiquity to record presence and actions; sensors will notice
when we enter a space, sit down, lie down pump iron, etc. Pervasive
infrastructure is recording it.
This talk will cover projects from the Context Aware Computing Group At MIT
Media Lab
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Dr. Ted Selker is on the faculty of the MIT Media Lab, directing the
Context Aware Computing Group. Previously he was an IBM Fellow and manager
of User System Ergonomics Research at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He
works on cognitive, graphical an physical interface. Ted has taught courses
at Stanford, and previously worked at Xerox PARC and Atari Sunnyvale
Reseach Laboratory. Ted is known for the design of the "TrackPoint III" in
keyboard pointing device with performance advantages derived from a special
behavioral/motor match algorithm, creating "COACH", an adaptive agent that
improves user performance shipping this Fall in OS2, and the design of the
755CV notebook computer that doubles as an LCD projector.
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NEXT WEEK - November 10, 2000 - Kai Li, Princeton University
li@cs.princeton.edu
The Princeton Wall
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The lectures are available each week over the Internet. For details see
<http://stanford-online.stanford.edu>. They can be accessed without
registration.
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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 08:26:47 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: _Mind versus Computer_
Dear Humanist Scholars,
Notes from Arun Tripathi:
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[In the midst of critiques --this outstanding and brainstorming
publication presents analyses of core ideas that will possibly shape
future AI. The book, "Mind Versus Computer" aims to reevaluate the
soundness of current AI research, especially the heavily disputed
strong-AI paradigm, and to pursue new directions towards achieving true
intelligence. Famous American Heideggerian, cognitive scientist and
phenomenologist, Prof. Hubert Dreyfus has argued that the enterprise
of AI consists in turning the rationalist project of philosophers like
Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, and Husserl (Prof. Hubert Dreyfus has also
accomplished a PhD degree in the early 60s, in 1963 at Harvard
University..on "Husserlian Studies and Phenomenology"..entitled _Husserl's
Phenomenology of Perception: From Transcendental to Existential
Phenomenology_) into an empirically rigourous research paradigm. One can
read more contemporary thoughts..In the _phenomenological critique of
representationalism_, which means the "rejection of the notion that
representational states define and explain the most basic kind of human
interaction with environment." The roots of _phenomenological critique of
representationalism_, can be seen and read in the writings of the
Continental philosophers, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, and its importation
into contemporary philosophy of mind has been accomplished largely by
Hubert Dreyfus. Very recently, in the book, _Knowledge Management Tools_
(Editor, Rudy L. Ruggles, III)..Hubert Dreyfus with his brother,
Prof. Stuart Dreyfus contributed a chapter entitled "Why Computers May
Never Think Like People"..states.."without the ability to make intelligent
decisions, without being able to incorporate 'know-how' along with
'know-what', computers can be no more than conduits of human intelligence,
devoid of context, distinctions, or true judgement." This particular
chapter provides a list of reasons, and examples to why computers may
never think like humans. Or more specifically, why people will never be
able to develop machines capable of making intelligent decisions. And, I
would like to highly recommend the book, because besides Dreyfus brothers,
there are also interesting chapters contributed by Harry M. Collins on
"Humans, Machines, and the Structure of Knowledge", Stan Franklin on "Into
the Future"..explores the future of mechanisms of the mind from the
perspectives of physicists, roboticists, and biologists, and Nobel
Laureate Herbert Simon on "Information Processing in Computer and Man"..]
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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:50:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Phil Agre <pagre@weber.ucsd.edu>
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Book announcement:
MIND VERSUS COMPUTER
WERE DREYFUS AND WINOGRAD RIGHT?
"Mind Versus Computer: Were Dreyfus and Winograd Right?", published
recently by IOS Press is dedicated to the question: is the mind just
a very complex computer? The book combines the "strong" versus "weak"
AI debate with new AI approaches and ideas. Twenty papers gathered and
refereed through the Internet are presented in three parts:
[material deleted]
For more information see:
<http://www2.ijs.si/~mezi/book.html>
<http://www.iospress.nl>
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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 08:30:51 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Lecture by Searle 2/2/01
The 2001 Annual Lecture of the Royal Institute of Philosophy will be given
by Professor John Searle in the Beveridge Hall, Senate House, University of
London, Malet St., on Friday 2nd February 2001 at 5.30 p.m. Its title is:
"Freedom of the Will As a Problem in Neurobiology". For more information
see <http://www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org/annual_2001.htm>.
"The RIP aims to promote the study and discussion of philosophy and
original work in it through its Journal PHILOSOPHY and by arranging and
sponsoring programmes of lectures and conferences....
"While waiting to go into prison for sponsoring an anti-war pamphlet in
1916, Bertrand Russell gave his 'Lectures on Logical Atomism' at the Dr
Williams' Library, 14 Gordon Square, in the hall where the Institute's
annual lecture series are now held. He finished them just before he was
incarcerated, during which time the Home Secretary, Lord Balfour, gave the
extraordinary instruction that the prisoner should be allowed writing
materials in this cell, in which he produced his 'Introduction to
Mathematical Philosophy'. Russell, together with Balfour, L T Hobhouse,
Samuel Alexander, Harold Laski, and the Institute's Journal's first editor,
Sydney Hooper, founded the Institute - then the British Institute of
Philosophical Studies - in 1925, initially meeting in King's Way, WC2, but
moving in 1930 to the Dr Williams' Library, with which it has been happily
and grateful ly associated ever since...."
Hope to see you there.
Yours,
WM
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