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Twitter Links Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders
The differences, across a number of different brands of automated essay scoring software (AES) and essay types, were minute. “The results demonstrated that over…

April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments
Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments
Link The Art of the Accident : Institute for…
Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it…

May 15 2011, 6:04am | Comments
Link The First Church of Robotics
THE news of the day often includes an item about some development in artificial intelligence: a machine that smiles, a program that can predict human tastes in mates or music,…

August 28 2010, 6:43am | Comments
Link The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan…
Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger.…

May 29 2010, 2:00am | Comments
Link When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like…
Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the…

December 23 2009, 3:24am | Comments
Link The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English
In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that…

November 1 2009, 4:32am | Comments
Link Dick Higgins: Statement on Intermedia
Art is one of the ways that people communicate. It is difficult for me to imagine a serious person attacking any means of communication per se. Our real enemies are…

January 30 2009, 7:03am | Comments

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