For all who are interested in the progress and current state artificial intelligence, interesting talks of this year’s summit of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence can be found here. Only a few have transcripts available, the others are only available as podcasts and sometimes hard follow. But there are lot of interesting ideas and thoughts to hear.
Found recently a interesting site concerning highly scalable web architectures, High Scalability. If you go through the realized architectures you see nearly never ASP or JEE (but at least some Java). Most C/C++, MySQL and Memcached besides various script languages seemed to be in favor.
I#ve found a interesting paper published at OOPSLA 2007 by Dan Grossman where he points to the similar patterns in the concept of Transactional Memory and Garbage Collection. The paper is not only well written by itself it is also a good source for finding more resources for both concepts. I also think that his claims are right: Transactional Memory will never need hardware support (as was similar claimed in the beginning for GC), that TM will need more time as expected to become mainstream and that it will not make concurrency programming much easier (but it will certainly help to prevent us from visiting the most silly traps again and again …)
Great presentations form the O’Reilly OSCON 2007 conference.
A fascinating map of trends in 2007!
Google has started a new feature in Google Maps, Street View. Now you can walk through selected places in the US and watch panoramic photos along the streets. This is not so new, but what is amazing is the free navigation along the streets so you can go sight seeing!
The second fascinating thing is Photosynth, presented by the TED2007 conference. Scott Hanselmann posted this information on his blog but it is really a create technology that is worth reposting. What it does is basically to align collections of images of a specific object taken from different viewpoints one to another via automatic feature extraction. What you get is a reconstructed 3D structure of the object which can be viewed as far as pictures are available. Supported is this with the seamless zooming technology of Seadragon which allows to operate with extreme large image collections in real time.
Not only Europe, also the USA has a de facto censorship of the press which is currently by far stronger than every time in the history because of the stupid and commercial interesting “War on terrorism“. A lot of stories pill be actively or indirect prohibited for publications. These two sides at least publish interesting ones on the internet.
I personally ignored podcasts a long time, maybe mainly I am not one of the kids with iPod. But since I got my current mobile, which has wireless LAN and a very good speaker, I learned that there are a lot of good podcasts out there. The nice thing is now, that my device loads automatically all new podcasts eposides in the night and whenever I’ve time I can listen to them. This makes it fool proved for lazy people like me … now what are my favorites:
There are a lot of other good podcasts out there, but at least this four have a constant high quality for their episodes. If only Google Tech Talks can be subscribed as podcasts …
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