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[Aaai.org] AI in the news: Student projects from the first graduating class included a robot controlled by a Madagascar cockroach by Garnet Hertz -- a commentary on artificial intelligence and robotics – and 'Infinicity,' Adrien Herbertz's application that allows for the algorithmic generation of an infinite three-dimensional digital space by gradual variation of objects that are loaded into a computerized world navigated by a user on a 'Dance Dance Revolution'-style foot pad with a large screen in front of them. 'Part of the idea is that there’s value to be gained from an interdisciplinary approach, to knowledge in a general sense,' said Robert Nideffer, co-director of ACE and an associate professor in studio art and informatics.

 [Blogs.chron.com] SciGuy: Is the Singularity near?: "Singularitans" should read "Singularitarians." It's an inaccurate generalization and a simplification to say that Singularitarian "predictions are based on exponential growth." Exponential growth trends are variables that support specific working views, e.g., that the difficulty of strong AI decreases as Moore's Law continues, but there are a large number of other variables involved in Singularitarian reasoning, many of which are dramatically more important than the accuracy of exponential growth trend claims.

[Rudyrucker.com] Rudy's Blog at rudyrucker.com: Paul and I went to look at the Science Hall instrument collection (Paul is with the original cyclotron in the photo), bascially scavenged from demo tools and lab equipment left over from earlier times at Harvard which has, after all, been in the education biz for, what, better than 200 years. The woman running the place was didactically asking us if we could see what was “wrong” with a certain mechanical orrery model of the solar system, and I told her, “We don’t know any science, we’re science fiction writers.” She found our levity in poor taste.

 [Crookedtimber.org] Crooked Timber » » Singularity draft review: The term Singularity, used to describe this event, apparently arose  in discussions between the mathematicians Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann. The idea of the Singularity was popularised in the 1980s and 1990s by mathematician and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, and later by  Kurzweil, a prominent technologist and innovator.

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