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This article describes embodied AI, a field involving "AI agents that don't simply accept static images from a data set but can move around and interact with their environments in simulations of three-dimensional virtual worlds." Based on the work of Princeton scientist Fei-Fei...

There's a lot going on in this post. To begin, it explores the use of offline web browser applications instead of a cloud-based LMS using Electron - to learn more about this approach I recommend my presentation Electron Express...

Scheduled to be launched on Wednesday, Octopus is a research publication platform that is advertised as "fast, free and fair". "Octopus is designed to replace journals as the primary research record, allowing journals to concentrate on editorialising primary research and disseminating it in a suitable form to their specific readerships." I've tried it out a bit and even more to the point, Octopus is very structured, breaking down research publications into eight...

This article is ostensibly about the efforts of Clarivate to break what it calls OCLC's (think Dublin Core) "monopoly" over publication metadata. It feels like an argument for a commercial system rather than a more open and public system. But I can't be certain; there's...

This short post excepts from a paywalled Wall Street Journal article setting out the talking points for the current round of education reform advocacy. "The government will spend nearly $250,000 on each of her children. Yet she won't have much of a say in how the dollars are spent. Without her consent, the bureaucrats who run the public schools will build...

As always with Phil Hill and his colleagues, I find myself wishing for a more global perspective. I wonder, for example, whether the decline in enrollments is strictly a U.S. phenomenon, or whether it is reflected internationally. That would tell us, for example, whether students...

The question arises, says Martin Weller, "why would you want to return to traditional exams, giving the damage they cause and the student preference? A week to complete essays using the internet and library resources is much more realistic a task than sitting in a sealed room and...