Joe passes the message

Joe Armstrong is a bit of a legend in programming circles. As one of the founding fathers of the Erlang programming language he spent a lot of time working at Ericsson where Erlang was created and as an interesting aside he likes his British motorbikes, a Royal Enfield and a Triumph. He is also a [...]

An intelligent approach to artificial intelligence

I thought I’d follow up on recent postings about artificial intelligence (AI) – Watson supercomputer beats game show contestants and the growth of artificial intelligence – by looking at the topic of parallel programming languages for AI. To start with AI has become such a huge field that it’s very difficult to point to any [...]

The future? It’s already out there.

After my recent posting on the Watson supercomputer beating the two all-time top players of Jeopardy, I couldn’t help but think how far we’ve come in terms of artificial intelligence and how much further we can go aided by parallel processing. Single core processors went out of fashion years ago, though it’s taking some time [...]

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