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Definitions are very important and they choose in a way the paths we eventually take. It is crucial that at the beginning of any venture woth doing that we know what we are doing. I heard an interview with John McCarthy and it was very enlightening. Noel Sharkey, who was the host of the show asked some very excellent questions. At one point John McCarthy had some second thoughts about the term he helped choose the term "Artificial Intelligence". I was amazed to hear that if he had to do i… Continue

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I have been away too long and I have a bunch of excuses. You know no excuse is good enough. I am just beginning to get back to writing stuff on the various web sites that I am interested in. It does my heart good to see that this site, one of my favourites is still alive and with some very interesting posts. I am ever so glad that others have began to add blogs.

The world continues to march on and all of the developments are not always for the maximum good. My last blog was about a debat… Continue

Traveling in the U.S. can prove to be interesting. Hotels in Augusta GA have recently began using robotic technology to assist in the exercise room. I wonder if Temporary Medical facilities will adopt these same sorts of devices. They help to schedule and track workouts. It really se… Continue

I have been reading about robotic surgery. It is really amazing how this is coming along. I have a friend who has had several dental procedures that are fairly extensive. He can only have them done at Indianapolis hospitals. I wonder if Dental insurance plans cover this type of surgery.
Anyway, I wonder as we… Continue

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I will soon begin to work at a research facility on Saarland University's campus in the "Statistical Geometry Processing" research group as a 5-hours a week student research assistant.

One of the main mid-term goals of the research group is to enable computers to detect symmetries in large point data clouds. There already exist a few recent algorithms (e.g.… Continue