Stationary Features - Google Tech Talk

François Fleuret, my PhD advisor, recently gave a talk about object detection at Google (Zurich offices).
You can now see it online:




If you wonder where my research will try to extend the work done so far, just go to minute 45:30!

How Ant Colonies Get Things Done

Here you have a nice and very informative Google Tech Talk by Dr. Deborah Gordon on how ant colonies work without any central control:






It seems that ants make most of their decisions just based on the frequency they encounter other ants (which have a specific smell according to their role in the colony).

Videolectures.net

A fast recommendation to the people interested in assisting to video talks in their computers:

http://www.videolectures.net

The website is specially interesting for the Machine Learning community, given that it has currently almost 600 videos on the topic, however you may find many other nice subjects. In fact if you work on Machine Learning, most likely I am not telling you anything new. In this case you could perhaps post a comment pointing to a video lecture that you found specially relevant. Thanks!

John Searle: Beyond Dualism

It's now time to make the first suggestion about philosophy of mind.

And who else could it be if not the well-known american philosopher John Searle (the one from the Chinese-room argument against strong AI). 

Check out this animated talk at IBM Almaden Institute on Cognitive Computing (2006).