The plural of anecdote is not data (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} q_through_t) wrote,@ 2005-12-12 11:53:00 |
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out there on the edge, bleeding
One of the new buzzwords in information/computer research is apparently "ambient intelligence" (as in this book title: "Ambient Intelligence for Scientific Discovery: Foundations, Theories, and Systems" [Springer, LNCS 2005]). This is related to ubiquitous computing; Phillips, for instance, envisions a (post-apocalyptic? - eds.) world filled with tiny sensors and chips, in everything, documenting our every environmental change. They may be in bed with MIT to achieve such a thing (this site is worth looking at just for the design); however, this research group seems to be playing around with images and all kinds of other things. The aforementioned book, by contrast, talks about making sense out of the huge clouds of scientific data that are created, disseminated, and have somehow to be analyzed:
Recent estimates suggest that human knowledge doubles every two to three years – and with the advances in information and communication technologies, this wide body of scientific knowledge is available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. This may also be referred to as ambient intelligence - an environment characterized by plentiful and available knowledge.
-- Madhavi Ganapathiraju, Narayanas Balakrishnan, Raj Reddy, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Computational Biology and Language, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3345, Jan 2005, Pages 25 - 47.
One of the new buzzwords in information/computer research is apparently "ambient intelligence" (as in this book title: "Ambient Intelligence for Scientific Discovery: Foundations, Theories, and Systems" [Springer, LNCS 2005]). This is related to ubiquitous computing; Phillips, for instance, envisions a (post-apocalyptic? - eds.) world filled with tiny sensors and chips, in everything, documenting our every environmental change. They may be in bed with MIT to achieve such a thing (this site is worth looking at just for the design); however, this research group seems to be playing around with images and all kinds of other things. The aforementioned book, by contrast, talks about making sense out of the huge clouds of scientific data that are created, disseminated, and have somehow to be analyzed:
Recent estimates suggest that human knowledge doubles every two to three years – and with the advances in information and communication technologies, this wide body of scientific knowledge is available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. This may also be referred to as ambient intelligence - an environment characterized by plentiful and available knowledge.
-- Madhavi Ganapathiraju, Narayanas Balakrishnan, Raj Reddy, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Computational Biology and Language, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3345, Jan 2005, Pages 25 - 47.
