Personal News Update
Well, I feel like I left some of you hanging (those who read my blog but don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook or FriendFeed or … something) ... I aced my Master’s Defense Which is to say, I got the highest grade possible for my project (yes, RIT grades your Master’s project when you [...]
Project Report Accepted — Defense Scheduled!
Well, my project report has been accepted and I’m defending my Master’s on December 2nd, 2008 at 4:30pm. You’re all invited to come and see how slick my Self-Organizing Maps Recommender is, from database to PowerShell cmdlets and all.
Fabruary 4th Progress Report
The last month went rather badly. First I got distracted by another project for two weeks … and then when I finally got back to working on the recommender, I found a bunch of problems with the way my database code was working (or rather, not working). Essentially, I made a mistake when I wrote [...]
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.
Recommender Project Proposal – Accepted
My project proposal was accepted, and I’ve started working on code and databases. I’ll be posting regular updates here, along with a link to my subversion server, but I wanted to start by posting a short summary of my project…
The project comprises designing and implementing a hybrid recommender system for web–pages which uses data from a social tagging system to recommend interesting items to users… The focus of the programming project will be a scraper for gathering tagged URLs from del.icio.us, a visualizer, and the recommender.
Week 2 – Progress
My wife and I went on vacation for most of last week, so I didn’t get a whole lot done on my research. I did some searching online for projects and papers related to SOM classifiers, and found a couple that show promise in the sense of incorporating their methods into my project, but nothing [...]
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 [...]