Author Archives: Joe Roushar
About Joe Roushar
Former spy, current enterprise systems architect and entrpreneur, camper, canoeist, musician, grandparent, inventor.About Joe Roushar
Former spy, current enterprise systems architect and entrpreneur, camper, canoeist, musician, grandparent, inventor.About Joe Roushar
Former spy, current enterprise systems architect and entrpreneur, camper, canoeist, musician, grandparent, inventor.About Joe Roushar
Former spy, current enterprise systems architect and entrpreneur, camper, canoeist, musician, grandparent, inventor.About Joe Roushar
Former spy, current enterprise systems architect and entrpreneur, camper, canoeist, musician, grandparent, inventor.About Joe Roushar
Former spy, current enterprise systems architect and entrpreneur, camper, canoeist, musician, grandparent, inventor.About Joe Roushar
Former spy, current enterprise systems architect and entrpreneur, camper, canoeist, musician, grandparent, inventor.About Joe Roushar
Former spy, current enterprise systems architect and entrpreneur, camper, canoeist, musician, grandparent, inventor.About Joe Roushar
Former spy, current enterprise systems architect and entrpreneur, camper, canoeist, musician, grandparent, inventor.About Joe Roushar
Former spy, current enterprise systems architect and entrpreneur, camper, canoeist, musician, grandparent, inventor.18 Aug Neuromorphic Computing
To Mimic is Human When is imitation not flattering or sincere? I try to be sincere in my blogging, and I have tried not to unnecessarily emphasize the computing ability of the human brain, but the whole point of this blog is to imitate it using computers. A neuromorphic (resembling the brain and/or neurons) computing model […]
17 Aug Stimuli
Responses to Stimuli When we speak of computational systems, we use words like “input” and “output” and “program“. When computers become able to communicate, understand and process knowledge in context, will we use different words: words that are more anthropomorphic? I’ve been playing with anthropomorphic concepts with MIPUS. In today’s post I will draw us […]
13 Aug MIPUS the Robot Assistant
MIPUS Graphical Study Aid I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine: His name is MIPUS. The main intent of the Understanding Context blog is to investigate mechanical models of cognition. What do robots have to do with language understanding (my main focus), you may ask. As you can see in the illustration, […]
11 Aug Emotion – The Perturbable Mr. Amygdala
Fear and the Amygdala Have you ever been asked not to be so emotional, or on the contrary, to show more emotion? Or have you been asked to suppress a specific emotion, such as fear? I recall a scene from an Indiana Jones movie in which, after a scene of amazing heroics, a pilot tells […]
06 Aug Finding yourself in the Hippocampus
On October 6, 2014, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine to John O´Keefe and to May‐Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. John O´Keefe is Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in Neural Circuits […]
03 Aug Exformation vs. Subtext
Many of us humans like to congregate and communicate. Much of our communication, including this blog, is intended to be shared widely and to persist beyond the moment, whether we are attempting to share the thought of the moment, or change the course of human history. When we congregate, whether for a TED talk, a […]
02 Aug What is a Set: Multiple Meanings in Digital Lingo
Polysemy What is the meaning of “bump” or “set” or “spike”? Polysemy means multiple meanings, or semantic representations for a single word or phrase. In digital Lingo, that is ones and zeros, we have the ultimate example of minimal symbolic diversity delivering infinite possible meanings. Fortunately human languages give you more than two choices of symbols, […]