Archive for Research
Donald A. Norman Critique
I was trying to put together my paper with a section on Donald A. Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things when I came across this review:
Dear Mr. Norman,
Judging from the fact that Amazon.com offered the two as a set, I bet they didn’t know, either, that The Design of Everyday Things is the same book as The Psychology of Everyday Things.
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Computer Generated Eye Tracking using Artificial Intelligence
This is cool.
One of my final project ideas for my Artificial Intelligence class was to recreate expensive and cumbersome human eye tracking with Artificial Intelligence, specifically a Neural Network. Much to my chagrin, with a little Googling I find out it has already been done and done quite well:
Genetic Algorithms and Cloning
Wired Magazine published an interesting article this month focused around embracing human cloning. The writer, Greg Easterbrook, argues cloning is actually quite natural. He states; “Nature wants us to pass on our genes; if cloning assists in that effort, nature would not be offended… there is nothing intrinsically unnatural about human inventions that improve reproductive odds.” Read more
