Archive for 2007
Lecture 12: Social means interaction (I): Learning what you like
11 April 2007This lecture covered some of the work presented in “Mining Social Network in Message Boards” (the paper PDF may be found here (1Mb)) published in the Sympposium on Conversational Informatics for Supporting Social Intelligence and Interaction (AISB’05, 12-15 April, Hatfield, UK, 2005). The lecture covered how to identify relevant topic and player in an ongoing discussion. You can download the PDF here (2Mb)—or see below.
Wordpress MU plugin to render math using latex commands
10 April 2007I just run into an interesting Wordpress MU plugin to render mathematical equations via LaTeX commands. Kumara just put up a demo here. There is another on below
More on Wordpress themes
9 April 2007Via wpmudev, I run into a huge pack of themes for Wordpress. Kumara Sastry also have a nice collection of his favorites.
GE498-ECI, Lecture 11: Summarize and drill: Helping to avoid cognitive overload
4 April 2007This lecture covered the basic of how to identify relevant topics and extract summaries out of a conversation. This lecture is based on the paper “Delineating Topic and Discussant Transitions in Online Collaborative Environments” by Yasui, N.I., Llorà, X., and Goldberg, D.E.. You may find the PDF of the paper here.
GE498-ECI, Lecture 10: Innovation and visual concept maps
4 April 2007This lecture covered how to visualizes concepts on an ongoing conversation. The lecture was based on the paper about using interactive genetic algorithms to tune the KeyGraph algorithm for a given document. The paper was published in the First European Workshop on Chance Discovery, EWCD 2004 (Valencia, Spain). The paper may be found here (PDF, 0.7Mb) and the presentation slides here (PDF, 0.5Mb)—or see below.
Paul Borgeson poetry contest at UIUC
4 April 2007
There is a poetry contest at UIUC in honor of Paul Borgeson (former UIUC decesed faculty). You still have time to turn your poem in till April 6th. It is never to late to have fun.
Interesting compilation of Firefox add-ons
3 April 2007Kumara Sastry has an interesting blog post about add-ons for Mozilla Firefox.
Java and Open GL
3 April 2007I knew there were some efforts to have access to OpenGL from Java, but I did not check it for a while. The JOGL API project has made a long journey since its inception. You can check the demos easily, since they are Java web started applications.
GE498-ECI, Lecture 9:The Unstructured Data Contains a Clue
28 March 2007GE498-ECI, Lecture 9:The Unstructured Data Contains a Clue covered a quick introduction to text mining. The slides for this lecture can be download as PDF.
GE498-ECI, Lecture 8: Connectivity Everywhere; Graph Theory 101
28 March 2007GE498-ECI, Lecture 8: Connectivity Everywhere; Graph Theory 101 covered some of the basis of graph theory. The slides for this lecture can be download as PDF.