Women And The Intellectual Origins of Computing
Read more: Women And The Intellectual Origins of ComputingLanguage, abstraction, and reliability before contemporary intelligent systems When computing history is reconstructed retrospectively, attention tends to gravitate toward machines: hardware innovations, institutional laboratories, or moments in which technological capability visibly expanded. Such narratives privilege technical artefacts while leaving in the background the conceptual work that made those artefacts meaningful. The development of computing did…
Building my first course on AI Search, Entity SEO and Knowledge Graphs
Read more: Building my first course on AI Search, Entity SEO and Knowledge GraphsWhen Lazarina Stoy reached out to me and asked whether I would consider creating a course, the idea immediately made sense. I had spent years applying these concepts in real projects, discussions, and strategic work. The only thing I had never done before was formalize them into a structured learning experience. That challenge was precisely…
David Bowie’s EMS Synthi AKS and Electronic Innovation in Music
Read more: David Bowie’s EMS Synthi AKS and Electronic Innovation in MusicDisclaimerThe following article contains dangerously high levels of geekery. Expect unrestrained enthusiasm about oscillators, patch matrices, algorithmic cut-up techniques, and the uncanny resemblance between David Bowie’s Verbasizer and modern-day GPTs. Side effects may include compulsive rewatching of Bowie interviews and a sudden desire to spend $20,000 on vintage electronic gear. Reader discretion is advised. David…
Being seen, being accountable. My feature in AI Infused Women in AI
Read more: Being seen, being accountable. My feature in AI Infused Women in AII am honored to be included in AI Infused Women in AI Magazine, a space that brings together women who are actively shaping how artificial intelligence is imagined, built, and applied today. The feature appears in the AI Infused Women in AI edition, available here:https://swarmcommunity.hflip.co/ai_infused_women_in_ai.html Over the years, my work as Head of Innovation has…
Steering Innovation Toward Human Agency
Read more: Steering Innovation Toward Human AgencyReading Gravity’s Rainbow in the Age of AI Reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow isn’t a task, it’s a journey, and a notoriously complex one (reading the book actually took several months), filled with shifting perspectives, technological paranoia and systems that feel larger than life. What I didn’t expect was that this postmodern novel would offer…
Gravity’s Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon
Read more: Gravity’s Rainbow and Thomas PynchonThomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (b. 1937), is an American novelist widely considered one of the most important and influential writers of the postmodern era. He is famously reclusive, and has assiduously avoided public life, leading to a focus on his work rather than his biography. His fiction is known for its dense, encyclopedic style, black…
The Context Revolution: Semantics in the Age of Intelligent Search
Read more: The Context Revolution: Semantics in the Age of Intelligent SearchCan Semantic Technology Solve the ‘I Know It’s Here Somewhere’ Problem? We’re deluged with information, often leaving us struggling to pinpoint exactly what we need. The real challenge isn’t a scarcity of data, but a critical lack of meaningful organization that enables information to self-describe and directly address our requirements. As both a knowledge engineer…
The Answer to Life, the Web and Everything: AI’s Search for Meaning
Read more: The Answer to Life, the Web and Everything: AI’s Search for MeaningThe Web’s Ongoing Search for Meaning I recently had dinner with my amazing dad, one of Italy’s most passionate collectors of Urania and a lifelong science fiction enthusiast. Over our favorite pizzas, our conversation drifted to artificial intelligence and technological advancements. This reminded my dad of a short story he loves: Fredric Brown’s The Answer.…
“Answer” by Fredric Brown
Read more: “Answer” by Fredric Brown“Answer” is a classic science fiction short story by Fredric Brown, first published in 1954. It is a very short story that explores themes of artificial intelligence, omniscience and the nature of existence. Summary The story takes place in a future where humanity has finally connected all computers from all inhabited planets into a single,…