Hi there, nice to meet you all. In '85 my father was pleased that I enjoyed working out how a ZX Spectrum computer worked, rather than take apart his electro-mechanical devices. This lead to a degree in Computer Science, graduating in '93.
Back then my main interest was with global illumination simulation. After a few years working on low-level driver software for custom graphics cards, I drifted into computer game production here in London (DirectX 3 and PlayStation 1 on-wards). After eight years working on a variety of games and hardware, a friend and I set up a VFX media development studio. Continuing with game development we also branched into short films, commercials, and music videos. Winding that company up after six years, I've spent the last few years working out what direction to go next. Learning Robotics has allowed me to tinker with AI. Initially disappointed, I thankfully came across "On Intelligence" earlier this year. A light went off, something clicked inside. I'm sidetracked diving into the Neuroscience. Fascinated how it all connects together. Imagining a day when I assist my robot in it's first steps into the world, to when it recognizes my voice and that I'm calling it's name. Lofty dreams, but seem more achievable day by day. I'm interested in evolving the build system, critic and vision projects. Thank you Numenta. Thank you Matthew. And thank you to all involved. We live in exciting times. Best regards, Richard. On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Jim Bridgewater <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have been interested in biologically inspired artificial > intelligence since 2005 when I was applying to PhD programs. Most of > the programs I applied to were in neuroengineering and in order to > prepare for work in this field I took an introductory class in > neuroscience at Cal State, Sacremento where I learned to dissect sheep > brains, prepare and stain slices of rat brains and perform patch clamp > experiments on cray fish tails. I got an excellent offer to work in > this field from Georgia Tech, but I ended up at Arizona State for my > PhD because at the time I was engaged to a woman that did not want to > move to Georgia. At ASU I worked on organic semiconductors and would > have continued to do so except that 4 years into my PhD, at the age of > 35, I was diagnosed with leukemia. This convinced me that working in > a chemistry lab with a bunch of carcinogens is not a great life plan > for me. The last several years have been interesting to say the > least, but the good news is I survived, which makes twice for me as I > was previously diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma when I was 14 years > old. I just wrapped up my PhD this spring and spent the summer > working with NuPIC as part of the season of NuPIC. I worked on a > toolkit for applying NuPIC to visual problems. You can find this code > on github under baroobob/nupic.vision. Hopefully it will find its way > to Numenta's family of repositories. I've also been applying for > postdocs in computational neuroscience this summer in the hopes of > learning much more about how the brain works. If I don't find a > suitable position in this field then entrepreneurship here I come. > I've been harboring entrepreneurial ambitions for a decade and it's > time to let them loose. > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Seyyed Mohammad mohammadzadeh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm S. Mohammad M. Ziabary I've studied AI at Amir Kabir university of > > technology, Tehran, Iran. My final thesis was about a machine translation > > system based on HTM which introduced HLMT (Human Like Machine > Translation) > > as final product > > > > > > 2014-08-31 6:03 GMT+04:30 tatuya karino <[email protected]>: > > > >> Hi all. > >> > >> It's my first time to send an email to online communities. > >> > >> I'm an engineer, and I'm interested in machine intelligence. > >> I research and develop it personally on most of all holidays. > >> When I read "On intelligence" and white paper, ( thank you for > translation > >> in Japanese :) ), > >> I think it's very interesting and I hope to be able to contribute > >> something. > >> Now I'm making some examples. I'll ask some questions. > >> > >> Best regards > >> > >> > >> 2014-08-29 23:55 GMT+09:00 Matthew Taylor <[email protected]>: > >>> > >>> Hello NuPIC, > >>> > >>> Thanks for your patience during this very annoying mailing list > >>> situation. It seems that the dust has settled after migrating to our > >>> own virtual private server, and the lists are back to 100% > >>> functionality. > >>> > >>> ... But that's not good enough for me! I think we should STRESS-TEST > >>> our mailing lists' new home. So here is the plan: I've sent this > >>> message to each of our four mailing lists. Please reply to this > >>> message with a short SELF-INTRODUCTION! I'm especially interested in > >>> hearing from LURKERs who've been reading the lists but never posted. > >>> Let us know you exist, even if it's just a short "hello world!". If > >>> you are an established poster that everyone knows, perhaps you should > >>> share something interesting or unique about yourself that no one on > >>> the list knows. > >>> > >>> Here's mine: > >>> > >>> I spent over four years in the US Air Force working as an intelligence > >>> analyst. I worked to support the B-2 Stealth program, and I trained > >>> pilots about air defense systems, so I know a lot about surface-to-air > >>> missiles. After leaving the Air Force, I worked as a defense > >>> contractor, where I really got into programming mostly in fortran77 > >>> and shell scripts. I had to convince my coworkers to use Java!! Can > >>> you believe that? Anyway, I realized I wanted to dedicate my career to > >>> software development instead of supporting combat operations, so I > >>> left to build code, and I ended up here at Numenta. > >>> > >>> Your turn! > >>> > >>> --------- > >>> Matt Taylor > >>> OS Community Flag-Bearer > >>> Numenta > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Tatsuya Karino > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Best Regards. > > S.M. Mohammadzadeh > > Web: www.mohammadzadeh.info > > Blog: blog.mohammadzadeh.info > > > > * softnhard ==> software and hardware expert > > > > -- > James Bridgewater, PhD > Arizona State University > 480-227-9592 > >
