Entries from August 2008

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Visualizing Natural Language Processing Data and Extracting Conceptual Relationships

This is the final of three posts wrapping up my experiences with Google Summer of Code 2008 and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. (The other two are here and here.)
In this post, I will show how to visualize NLP parsed data using Wikipedia as an example.
As I mentioned in the previous post, the RelEx […]

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

RelEx Crawler: Natural Language Processing Web Crawler and HyperGraphDB Manager

This is the second of three posts wrapping up my experiences with Google Summer of Code 2008 and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
The RelEx Crawler was the heart of my project. The summary proposal is here on Google’s site and my full project proposal is here on the OpenCog wiki.
Given an input URL and […]

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Linkovbot: A Natural Language Processing IRC Bot

This is the first of three posts wrapping up my experiences with Google Summer of Code 2008 and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Although it had nothing to do with my main project proposal, Linkovbot does use the same NLP software and I did write it to give myself a break from reading too much […]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

New GPG Key; Encrypted GMail with FireGPG

I’m sort of embarrassed that I’ve been using GMail for a while now. I rally for data privacy and yet I let a large company house all of my personal communications? That’s a bit hypocritical.

My solution, at least until I can find something more suitable, is to use the FireGPG extension for Firefox. Now, you […]

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Hacking the MBTA!

Some MIT students have been banned from giving a talk at this years’ DEFCON about their hack on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s CharlieCard system.
I’ve got a copy of their forbidden slides, which I’m mirroring here. It’s a really good presentation, but unfortunately the links to their code in it aren’t working right now.

Anyway, the […]

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Shitty Campus Based Digital Theft Prevention Bill Passes Congress

The Government now requires your college to spy on you and give your money to media companies. Simple as that.
I’ve written a post about this on the Free Culture blog about the bill from a Free Culture perspective, but if you just want news about the bill, I’d recommend Ars Technica’s coverage.
I’ve written my opinions […]

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Switzerland, the EFF’s New Net Neutrality Monitor

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a top digital rights organization out of San Francisco and DC, has just released a new tool which lets users automatically detect network neutrality violations and ensure that their internet experience is left untampered with.
Switzerland, as it is called, is an open source software tool for testing the integrity of data […]