20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Jaywalking is the term that popularly coins the fact of a pedestrian crossing the street ignoring the traffic lights. It is an unlawful action in many countries and is punished in some states. However, in New York, police are pretty permissive and just jaywalkers whose behavior goes beyond a non-written rule are warned. In addition, [...]
It seems that the artificial intelligence related in science fiction is not as far from reality as we used to think. The main character of the film AI, a little boy belonging to a robot series capable of emulating human behavior, is now a model to reach in current scientific projects, which aim at providing [...]
GECCO, one of the most relevant conferences on evolutionary computation, starts its 10th edition today in Montréal (Canada). The organization committee has prepared a lot of surprises within a tight agenda. From July 8 to July 12, full days of tutorials, workshops, poster sessions, talks, competitions, awards, the birthday, and the star talk by John [...]
New York (USA) Morning saw the City calm after eleven days of rains. This sunny day allowed people to have picnics and enjoy a peaceful holiday. At eight, however, things got hectic. The roofs of the buildings welcomed the most impatient onlookers. Neighbor communities began the preparations with the following ingredients: barbecues, beers, and joy. [...]
Some days ago I noticed that there is no button thirteen in the control panel of the elevator of my building. The owner, the architect, or someone else should be superstitious. Because of that, an ad hoc control panel was made and the displayer programming was adjusted to jump from 12 to 14. Nevertheless, despite [...]
Three weeks ago I read the post Prof. Cirac interviewed about quantum physics and theory information, where you can find the link to the video of the Cirac’s interview by a Catalan TV. It is amazing how Prof. Cirac introduces some basics of the quantum physics by using easy words and a couple of dices. [...]
The special session Knowledge extraction based on evolutionary learning, organized by Salvador García, Albert Orriols, and José Otero, was one of the opening sessions of the 4th international conference on hybrid artificial intelligent systems (HAIS 2009). Its program, full of interesting talks that discussed the new trends for knowledge extraction processes by means of evolutionary [...]
Manny’s Music, a classic among the guitar stores founded in 1935, has been definitely closed. I just visited this place twice, but the first time I already felt a unique vibe coming from the stories that it enclosed. This store, which walls were covered by pictures of legendary stars and real gems of guitars, had [...]
May said goodbye with two magic moments. On Saturday 30 and Sunday 31, the so-called Manhattanhenge, an astronomical event in which the Sun is perfectly aligned with the Manhattan’s grid, took place. The connoisseurs were ready in the strategic points, along the 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, and 57th streets, with their cameras, to hunt the [...]