Intelligent Computing: Oxymoron?

Is affective computing an oxymoron?

In one of the Father Brown short-stories, G.K. Chesterton described the (fictitious) French detective Aristide Valentin by writing that ‘‘(h)e was not ‘a thinking machine’; for that is a brainless phrase of modern fatalism and materialism. A machine only is a machine because it cannot think.’’ Although this aphorism dates from 1911, long before the notion of a thinking machine became popular, i...

Cloud Solutions for High Performance Computing: Oxymoron or Realm?

Preliminary notes In the last years a strong interest of the HPC (High Performance Computing) community raised towards cloud computing. There are many apparent benefits of doing HPC in a cloud, the most important of them being better utilization of computational resources, efficient charge back of used resources and applications, on-demand and dynamic reallocation of computational resources bet...

Intelligent Scientific Computing

I will describe what the scientific computing process is (should be?) when it is carried out by humans and indicate where symbolic and artificial intelligence methods can be used to significantly improve the process.

Image Reproduction: An Oxymoron

In our daily lives dealing with images, we have the mental notion that we are reproducing an original. This notion is generally helpful in guiding image and colour processing decisions, but often it turns into a hindrance when the words we use lead to artifi cial constraints that we impose onto the problem. This paper describes some scenarios in which a broader defi nition of the word ‘reproduc...

Design Research, an Oxymoron?