Woohoo!

Our paper on Mapping the Genome of Human Intention has been accepted to the 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services! It’s part of WORLDCOMP’08: The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, being put on in Las Vegas, July 14-17, by the World Academy of Science.

I think this classifies as a coup for us—specifically, for Martin Burley and Branton Kenton-Dau, who wrote the paper. For one thing, the acceptance rate as of April 15 was only 27%. For another, the sponsors include heavy hitters like Harvard, UCLA, the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, and Google, among about a million others.

On another note, a paper that recently came out in Nature provides (in my opinion) further validation of the statement that the mathematics of human intention have predictive characteristics. Aaron Clauset, Christopher Moore, and Mark Newman from the Santa Fe Institute posited that hierarchy is a fundamental organizing principle of complex networks—the picture is ‘a hierarchical network with structure on many scales and the corresponding hierarchical random graph.’ From the press release:

To demonstrate the practical utility of their model, they analyze networks from three disparate fields: the metabolic network of the spirochete Treponema pallidum (the bacteria that causes syphilis), a network of associations between terrorists, and a food web of grassland species. Even when only half of the connections in these networks were shown to their algorithm, the researchers found that hierarchical structure can predict missing connections with an accuracy of up to 80 percent.

The emphasis was mine. Why did I add it? Because one of these things is not like the others. One of these things is behavior-based, and yet it behaves mathematically.

We human beings are behavior-based, and yet we behave mathematically.

That is why these algorithms work, because our purpose, values and intention mathematically predict our behavior.

You can find the full Clauset, Moore, and Newman paper here.

Will we see you in Vegas?

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