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.

This past weekend I was in New York City for the College Media Advisers conference. Not many of the sessions were of interest to me, a lowly Associate Copy Editor, but I enjoyed the opportunity to stay in the Marriott Marquis in the heart of Times Square.

The keynote speaker was Valerie Plame Wilson, the exposed [...]

I’ve been running a 5,066-entry wordlist though an algorithm designed to rank the words in descending order of fitness according to a gauntlet of tests. Each word is assigned a net score between 0 and 1 that indicates how well it is able to filter distractors (unrelated terms) from targets (related terms).

I first ran my [...]