My first paper, Defining the Dimensions of the Human Semantic Space, has been accepted as a poster at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society conference to be held in Washington, D.C. from July 23 - 28. I am second author on the paper; many thanks go to graduate student V. Dan Veksler [...]

Rensselaer’s Inside Rensselaer bulletin, which is sent to faculty and staff, ran an article on RPISEC’s participation in ISTS6 at the Rochester Institute of Technology. It’s a bit sensationalistic, though it couldn’t go into too much detail.

Since I haven’t had much to post about as of late, I’ll provide you with an update of what I’ve been doing lately:

UPE Programming Competition

From 2-5:30 PM today I participated in the UPE Programming Competition sponsored by Morgan Stanley and hosted by the Rensselaer Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. The competition [...]

The Consumerist has a neat tip for figuring out how old a candy bar is:

For M&Ms and Mars candy, there’s usually a 10 digit code of numbers and letters, but you only need to worry about the first three. The first number is the last number in the year (8 means 2008, 7 [...]