... Bio inspired Artificial Intelligence and Bayesian Networks.

In the past few months I met researchers from Rome's CNR, Stanford and EPFL (Lausanne). They are great researchers, all involved in this Bio-Inspired quest.

I like what I am reading, I like brainstorming about it and the idea of applying these techniques to the Net/Web is stimulating ...

I studied Engineering and graduated with honors, but I must admit that I never liked mathematical analysis, and was never too good at it. I found it as being too abstract and hard to visualize; on the other hand, I loved computer science, it was my second nature, I could naturally visualize it without efforts. My thesis work, when I graduated, was about a simulation of an automatic storage system at a car factory, which I simulated using what are now generically called cellular automata.

We now give it for granted that neurons fire, and basically work (mostly) digitally. It is amazing, though, that they work digitally, given the fact that the incoming patterns they are supposed to work on are not digital.

There is certainly a great incentive in being digital :-)

I managed to install the Numenta framework on my Ubuntu PC. Had to work around a few problems and had to learn some simple Linux and Python commands, but now it works. Feels like 1984 :-)

BTW: I am back to Milan after a brief stop in Cagliari. The weather is not hot, there are very few people around, and many bicycles ... seems like a nice city today!