Most scientists, doctors, analysts, and even computer animators are faced with a data deluge. They must analyze, extract meaningful information, and create solutions from huge quantities of data whose size is increasing at an enormous rate. However, screen resolution, image generation techniques, and visualization techniques are only making modest improvements. This has led us to take a differe...

Many studies have been carried out and many commercial software applications have been developed to improve the performances of surface mining operations, especially for the loader-trucks cycle of surface mining. However, there have been quite few studies aiming to improve the mining process of underground mines. In underground mines, mobile mining equipment is mostly scheduled instinctively, w...

Internet is at the heart of the labor market and its use spreads as increase the number of Internet users in the population. Seeking employment through "electronic employment bursary" and e-recruitment has become something current. This information explosion poses various problems in their processing with the large amount of information difficult to manage quickly and effectively. We present in...

I make some basic observations about hard takeoff, value alignment, and coherent extrapolated volition, concepts which have been central in analyses of superintelligent AI systems.

Human genetics is undergoing an information explosion. The availability of chip-based technology facilitates the measurement of thousands of DNA sequence variation from across the human genome. The challenge is to sift through these high-dimensional datasets to identify combinations of interacting DNA sequence variations that are predictive of common diseases. The goal of this paper was to deve...