Windows RSS Platform – Part the first.
The inaptly named Windows RSS Platform is actually part of IE7, not part of Windows, and therefore is available on Windows XP if IE 7 has been installed, as well as on Windows Vista (where IE 7 is included originally). However, having said that, it isn’t just for IE: it includes a complete COM API [...]
SOM Recommender Progress
Rather than just keep everything here in my blog, I created a Trac website so that those of you who are interested can easily track my progress. I’m hosting that site on my home server (on residential cable) so if you have problems accessing it, it’s probably just momentarily off-line, it’s at somr.jaykul.org. Trac has a timeline which will allow you to easily see the subversion checkins, as well as tracking my progress against the milestones that I set out in my project proposal.
Masters: Thesis or Project
Well, I’ve started taking the “MS Thesis and Project Seminar” course at RIT, which is the first step towards registering my Thesis (or project) with the school and finishing off my degree! I’m currently nursing two main ideas for projects related to Artificial Intelligence, and this past week I met with Jessica Bayliss to discuss [...]
Masters Thesis Proposal: An SOM Classifier
The basic idea here is to build a classification system based on SOM algorithms which can be used to pick “interesting” articles from sites like delicious, diigo, magnolia, and lilisto (I have a partial list of possible sites here). There are currently several parts to this idea, and it’s really possible that this could be [...]
Masters Project Proposal: A Learning Notification System
There are many opportunities for the use of AI in improving mainstream user interfaces. One particular area where little has been done is in the way our computers “alert” us of problems or information that we may need to know. Current operating systems provide little or no way for the user to control this, making [...]