William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 20, 2018

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Won’t Hold Still

Frequency Analysis with the Hilbert-Huang Transform

We start to look at vectors and their importance to motion analysis around chapter three of the freshman physics text. By that time, the related concepts of position, displacement, velocity and acceleration have been…

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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 23, 2018

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Say Hello to ADIOS

Unsupervised Learning of Linguistic Structures

“I brang it to school yesterday” is the most recent conversation starter with our fourth-grader. Like many parents, I would like to have the phrase “Use brought; ‘brang’ isn’t a word” emblazoned on a shirt so I can simply…

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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Mar 31, 2018

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Algorithmic Intelligence

Very Real Advances in the Hierarchical Temporal Memory Platform

I had the great pleasure of dinning with Dr. John McCarthy, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University, when he received the 2003 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and…

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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Apr 17, 2018

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World of Pure Imagination

On the Rise of Materials Informatics

We have enjoyed a century of innovation and productivity since Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company developed the moving assembly line manufacturing process over the years of 1908 to 1915. While originally proposed by…

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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 20, 2018

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Simplifying Complexity

Algorithmic Contributions of Richard M. Karp

During an April award ceremony in Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute awarded the 2004 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive science to Richard M. Karp for “his contributions to the understanding of…

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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Apr 17, 2018

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Thinking in Pictures

General-purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units

In the mid-1970s filmmaker George Lucas sought to capture his vision for a space opera called The Star Wars on motion picture film. The difficulty was that the technology did not yet exist to create the vast…

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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

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Spelunking v. Thunking

Acquiring Data from Acquired Data

While working on his Ph.D. thesis at Yale’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the mid-1970s, James Meehan developed a LISP program capable of generating Aesop ‘s Fable-style stories from a database of facts and character…

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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

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A Space Odyssey

Image Compression and the Wavelet Transform

As a member of the High School class of 1984, I was imbued with more than my fair share of Orwellian analysis. Although a majority of present day references recount the omnipresent surveillance technology contained in George…

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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 9, 2018

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Digital Light Processing and Other Party Tricks

The Varied Uses of TI’s MEMS Device

The transistor has been hailed as the greatest invention of the 20th century. Developed at Bell Laboratories in 1947, this solid-state device uses electrons to switch the flow of other…

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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 22, 2018

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Look Who’s Talking

Spectral Learning Algorithm for Speech Separation

I do not know the first thing about teaching science to the blind. Even my earliest course in problem solving begins with Step 1: Read the Problem; Step 2: Draw a Picture of the Situation — both initial steps…

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