Barski on How To Tell Stuff To Your Computer
Tim Finin, 3:15am 3 October 2008
Conrad Barski, M.D. will give a talk on “How To Tell Stuff To Your Computer — The Enigmatic Art of Knowledge Representation” at UMBC at 1:00pm on Friday 17 October in Lecture Hall 8 in the ITE building.
Barski maintains an interesting site, Lisperati , that has graphical introductions to a number of topics, including Lisp, Haskell, Emacs, etc. and well as serving as he home of FringeDC an informal group of people interested in “fringe” programming languages.
Here’s the abstract for his talk.
“Have you ever wondered how we take information from the “real world” and put it into our computers? When we do this, do we lose parts of the information? Are some concepts just too hard to turn into ones and zeroes? How is our ability to enter information limited by the data structures we use inside of our computers? These questions enter into a science that is rarely discussed: The science of Knowledge Representation.
My presentation on KR will include some navel gazing, but also some nitty-gritty practical examples of Description Logics, RDF, and other modern approaches to capturing complicated information within a computer. We will also discuss some likely future directions this field may head into.”
Dr. Barski is a Medical Software Developer working on cardiology procedure documentation for Wolters Kluwer Health. He is also currently working on a textbook on the Common Lisp programming language.
You can submit a question either before, during or after the talk here.
Ebiquity Blog
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
You should consider recording the guest lectures and then putting them online (through something like youtube – and then maybe post them to this blog). Yesterday’s Google App Engine talk was pretty interesting, and many don’t have the time to get to all of these talks.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Yes, that would be a great idea.. I wanted to attend the Google App Engine Talk, but somehow couldn’t make it there
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