Man and Machines

Computation of emotions in man and machines.

The importance of emotional expression as part of human communication has been understood since Aristotle, and the subject has been explored scientifically since Charles Darwin and others in the nineteenth century. Advances in computer technology now allow machines to recognize and express emotions, paving the way for improved human-computer and human-human communications. Recent advances in ps...

Self-karaoke Machines: Collaborative Man-Machine Improvisations

A new philosophy of man and humanism

The theoretical basis for the new philosophy was laid by the American philosopher James Joseph Dagenais (1923-1981), who came to the conclusion that philosophical anthropology is not a science, but a domain unto itself, and that a philosophy of man can only come about as a joint undertaking of all sciences, in which the object of study must be man himself. The final explanation of man lies outs...

Man, machines, manufacturing, and maintenance: merits of a much-maligned metaphor.

277 W OK, STRICTLY IT IS AN ANALOGY rather than a metaphor, but I couldn’t resist. In overview talks on the “SENS” repair-andmaintenance approach to combating aging that I favor, I generally introduce the basic concept by analogy with the fact that the functional lifespan of a car may be made unusually long by sufficiently comprehensive maintenance. I use this analogy to explain not only why a ...

A Comparative Study of Extreme Learning Machines and Support Vector Machines in Prediction of Sediment Transport in Open Channels

The limiting velocity in open channels to prevent long-term sedimentation is predicted in this paper using a powerful soft computing technique known as Extreme Learning Machines (ELM). The ELM is a single Layer Feed-forward Neural Network (SLFNN) with a high level of training speed. The dimensionless parameter of limiting velocity which is known as the densimetric Froude number (Fr) is predicte...