Dr. Rachel Yager
NEW BOOK! Classic Works of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing): This book brings together a collection of classic research papers on the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions. This book will serve as the authoritative reference in the field of evidential reasoning and an important archival reference in a [...]
March 12th, 2008 | | Continued
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) helps high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be. See details @ http://www.usfirst.org/: Dates: 4/4/2008 – 4/6/2008 View the 64 teams registered for this event Event Website Sphere: Related Content
March 11th, 2008 | | Continued
Ordered Weighted Averaging Operator — OWA – is explained on Wikipedia : operator of dimension is a mapping that has an associated collection of weights lying in the unit interval and summing to one and with where bj is the jth largest of the aj Sphere: Related Content
March 7th, 2008 | | Continued
Bill Gates recently posted an interesting question: How to encourage young people to pursue careers in science and technology? I believe that we can start by having the cartoons that little kids watch on TV portray engineers and scientists as heroes rather than villains and nerds as it’s done. There’s a disconnect between media and [...]
March 4th, 2008 | | Continued
At a recent reception organized by Mike Bloomberg, I took the time to admire some of the beautiful arts at Gracie Mansion. I like the portraits of the lady and gentleman on the wall. Wonder who they are? This is also the first time I met with the Mayor, and he appeared charming in person. [...]
February 26th, 2008 | | Continued
A week ago, I attended a round-table on the Future of Technology with well-known speakers: Esther Dyson, Jaron Lanier, Bernie Meyerson and Ken Perlin. The discussion quickly focused around the phenomena of Web 2.0, with endless ramblings of the new found popularity with facebook, myspace, secondlife and blogging. The echoes of concern around the table sound [...]
December 26th, 2007 | | Continued
We were at the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2007) in ChengDu China. We took some time off and saw the amazing Pandas for the first time! The effort by the researchers in Chengdu’s Panda research center is truly remarkable. They were able to use artificial insemination techniques to multiply the pandas. [...]
October 26th, 2007 | | Continued
My interview with BusinessWeek – Companies can also use Semantic Web technologies to better respond to rapid change. Financial analysts and traders at Citigroup are inundated with information about fast-moving financial markets. So the banking powerhouse is looking at ways Semantic Web technologies can help extract valuable information, uncover trends, and generally help financial analysts, [...]
April 10th, 2007 | | Continued
My Semantic Web initiative was featured in MIT Technology Review: One of the company’s early clients is Citigroup. The banking giant’s global head of capital markets and banking technology, Chris Augustin, is heading an initiative to use semantic technologies to organize and correlate information from diverse financial-data feeds. The goal is to help identify capital-market [...]
April 5th, 2007 | | Continued
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