In an experiment in functional elegance, episodic memory and learning have been deconstructed in the Sigma cognitive architecture in terms of pre-existing memory and learning mechanisms plus a template-based structure generator. As a side effect, base-level activation also becomes deconstructed in terms of a learned temporal prior.

Sather ooers safety, elegance and interoperability to computational scientists. High performance scalable language extensions were a design goal of the serial language, not an afterthought. This is a DRAFT of an article to appear in the September/October issue of Computers in Physics.

My article addresses the qualities of “good” literature and how an understanding of the nature of literary devices, so-called “literariness”, can enhance the reading experience. Focusing on Hans Rosling’s Factfulness (2018), I discuss some of the most important features of good writing. Six literary devices have been selected for special attention: point of view, tone, amplification, anecdotes,...

This paper characterizes the methodology of Artificial Intelligence by looking at research in speech understanding, a field where AI approaches contrast starkly with the alternatives, particularly engineering approaches. Four values of AI stand out as influential: ambitious goals, introspective plausibility, computational elegance, and wide significance. The paper also discusses the utility and...