David Chalmers David John Chalmers (/ˈtʃælmərz/;[1] born 20 April 1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the area of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. He is also Professor of Philosophy at New York University.[2] In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Life[edit] Since 2004, Chalmers has been Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Centre for Consciousness, and an ARC Federation Fellow at the Australian National University. A Rhodes Scholar raised in Australia, Chalmers received his PhD at Indiana University Bloomington under Douglas Hofstadter. He is the lead singer of the Zombie Blues band which performed at the Qualia Fest in 2012.[5] in New York. Thought[edit] Philosophy of mind[edit] With Andy Clark, Chalmers has written The Extended Mind, an article about the borders of the mind.[7] "Water is H2O"
Gymnasium siger endegyldigt farvel til bøgerne Man behøver ikke pakke bøgerne ind. Der er ikke længere bøger med overstregninger og kruseduller fra tidligere elever. Tasken tynger ikke ryggen, når man skal til og fra skole. Sådan bliver den virkelighed, der møder de nye elever i 1.g, når de i morgen starter på Ørestad Gymnasium. Fra dette skoleår er gymnasiet 100 procent digitalt. Bruger iPad til forsøg Skolen har i foråret testet ideen på to gymnasieklasser, og det har der været stor succes med. Det fortæller Mikael Haugbølle, der i morgen fortsætter gymnasielivet i 2. g og i foråret var med til at gemme bøgerne væk og bruge den bærbare og en tablet. »Det er befriende kun at skulle have iPad'en med«, siger Mikael Haugbølle. »Det fungerer især godt i de naturvidenskabelige fag, fordi man kan have iPad'en med i forsøgslokalet, når man laver forsøg. Dumt at glemme iPad Når der står matematik på skemaet, er det også nødvendigt at stoppe en traditionel lommeregner i tasken. LÆS MEREE-bøger sælger bedre end indbundne bøger i USA
Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989,[2] and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.[3][4][5][6][7] Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).[8] He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),[9] and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.[10][11] Early life Career Current work Awards and honours Personal life
Hadrian Hadrian (Latin: Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus[note 1][2][note 2] 24 January, 76 AD – 10 July, 138 AD) was Roman Emperor from 117 to 138. In Latin, the full imperial title of Hadrian was also rendered as Tito Ael[io] Hadriano, just as it appears in ancient epigraphic records.[3] He re-built the Pantheon and constructed the Temple of Venus and Roma. He is also known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Roman Britain. Hadrian was born Publius Aelius Hadrianus to an ethnically Italian family, either in Italica near Santiponce (in modern-day Spain).[1] His predecessor Trajan was a maternal cousin of Hadrian's father.[4] Trajan never officially designated an heir, but according to his wife Pompeia Plotina, Trajan named Hadrian emperor immediately before his death. During his reign, Hadrian traveled to nearly every province of the Empire. Early life[edit] Public service[edit] His first military service was as a tribune of the Legio II Adiutrix. Emperor (117)[edit]
Marquis de Sade Life[edit] Early life and education[edit] The Marquis de Sade was born in the Hôtel de Condé, Paris, to Jean Baptiste François Joseph, Count de Sade and Marie Eléonore de Maillé de Carman, cousin and Lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Condé. He was educated by an uncle, the Abbé de Sade. Later, he attended a Jesuit lycée, then pursued a military career, becoming Colonel of a Dragoon regiment, and fighting in the Seven Years' War. Sade's father, Jean-Baptiste François Joseph de Sade. Title and heirs[edit] The men of the Sade family alternated between using the marquis and comte (count) titles. For many years, Sade's descendants regarded his life and work as a scandal to be suppressed. Scandals and imprisonment[edit] Sade lived a scandalous libertine existence and repeatedly procured young prostitutes as well as employees of both sexes in his castle in Lacoste. Beginning in 1763, Sade lived mainly in or near Paris. He had been working on his magnum opus Les 120 Journées de Sodome.
Is Wikipedia going commercial? When it began 11 years ago, Wikipedia represented utopian ideals: power dispersed more evenly than any democracy, participation open to anyone and work done solely for the promotion of knowledge. But utopian ideals often become diluted when put into practice on a large scale and inevitably fail. Today, to the dismay of many die-hard Wikipedians — the tenacious, voluntary editors who are the site’s backbone — the site also attracts profit-seeking writers. One such writer is Soraya Field Fiorio, a 27-year-old entertainment-relations consultant who has a sideline in writing commissioned Wikipedia articles for musicians and writers. “Just like when I write press releases, clients say, ‘I want this. Having commissioned articles on Wikipedia dilutes one of the last respites from commercialization on the Internet. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, came out against paid editing. The craft of Wiki-editing suits his personality.
Larry Smarr Professor Larry Lee Smarr is a physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure at the University of California, San Diego.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Education[edit] Smarr received both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975. Research[edit] After graduating, Smarr did research at Princeton, Yale, and Harvard,[15][16] and then joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979. While at Illinois Smarr wrote an ambitious proposal to address the future needs of scientific research. Smarr continued to promote the benefits of technological innovation to scientific research, such as his advocacy of a high-speed network linking the national centers, which became the NSFnet, one of the significant predecessors of today's Internet. Awards and honors[edit]
Artificial intelligence AI research is highly technical and specialized, and is deeply divided into subfields that often fail to communicate with each other.[5] Some of the division is due to social and cultural factors: subfields have grown up around particular institutions and the work of individual researchers. AI research is also divided by several technical issues. Some subfields focus on the solution of specific problems. The central problems (or goals) of AI research include reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, natural language processing (communication), perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects.[6] General intelligence is still among the field's long-term goals.[7] Currently popular approaches include statistical methods, computational intelligence and traditional symbolic AI. The field was founded on the claim that a central property of humans, intelligence—the sapience of Homo sapiens—"can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it History[edit]
Charles Bukowski Life and work[edit] Family and early years[edit] Charles Bukowski was born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski in Andernach, Germany, to Heinrich (Henry) Bukowski and Katharina (née Fett). His paternal grandfather Leonard had emigrated to America from Germany in the 1880s. In Cleveland, Leonard met Emilie Krause, who had emigrated from Danzig, Germany (today Gdańsk, northern Poland). Charles Bukowski's parents met in Andernach in western Germany following World War I. The family settled in South Central Los Angeles in 1930, the city where Charles Bukowski's father and grandfather had previously worked and lived.[8][10] In the '30s the poet's father was often unemployed. In his early teens, Bukowski had an epiphany when he was introduced to alcohol by his loyal friend William "Baldy" Mullinax, depicted as "Eli LaCrosse" in Ham on Rye, son of an alcoholic surgeon. Early writing[edit] In 1955 he was treated for a near-fatal bleeding ulcer. 1960s[edit] Black Sparrow years[edit] Charles Bukowski in 1990
LA · En literair Anmeldelse Opgaven er atter her, efter hvad jeg har forstaaet, i en almindeligere Betragtning, der er i Novellens critiske Tjeneste, at avancere netop de Momenter, som Forfatteren med novellistisk Kunst har gjengivet. Nutiden er væsentligen den forstandige, den reflecterende, den lidenskabsløse, den flygtigt i Begeistring opblussende og kløgtigt i Indolents udhvilende. Dersom man, ligesom man har det i Forhold til Forbrugen af Brændeviin o. s. v., havde Tabeller over Forbrugen af Forstand fra Generation til Generation: saa vilde man forbauses ved at see, hvilken uhyre Qvantitet der nuomstunder forbruges, hvilket Qvantum af Betænkninger og Overveielser og Hensyn selv en privatiserende lille Familie bruger, om den dog har sit rigelige Udkomme, hvilket Qvantum endog Børn og Ungdommen bruger, thi som Børne-Korstoget ligner Middelalderen, saa ligner Børne-Klogskaben Nutiden. Maa man sige om Revolutions-Tiden, at den farer vild, saa maa man sige om Nutiden, at den farer ilde.
Speakers Bureau: People: Douglas Van Houweling President and CEO Internet2 dvh@internet2.edu Douglas E. Van Houweling, the founding President and CEO of Internet2, is also a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Dr. Van Houweling has long been active in inter-university initiatives, serving on the EDUCOM Board and playing roles in establishing numerous initiatives to establish cooperative information technology efforts among universities. From 1984 until 1997, Dr. Van Houweling came to Michigan from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh where he was Vice Provost for Computing and Planning from 1981 until 1984. Dr.
Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləm vɑn ˈɣɔx] ( );[note 1] 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work—notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color—had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness,[1][2] he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found).[3][note 2] Letters Vincent c. 1873 aged 19. Although many are undated, art historians have generally been able to put them in chronological order. Biography Early life Vincent c. 1866, approx. age 13 As a child, Vincent was serious, silent, and thoughtful. The house "Holme Court" in Isleworth, where Van Gogh stayed in 1876 [23][24] Van Gogh returned to England for unpaid work as a supply teacher in a small boarding school overlooking the harbor in Ramsgate, where he made sketches of the view. Etten, Drenthe and The Hague Emerging artist