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| Mario Aoun received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon, in 2003. His final-year project, a location-based service for Windows mobile phones, won the Microsoft Competition for Universities in Lebanon that year. In parallel to his university studies, Mario developed complex database applications ranging from client-server applications to mobile and multi-tier applications. In 2007, after fulfilling his master’s (MS) degree in computer science from NDU, he was accepted for a PhD scholarship at the University of Twente, with training at Philips Research Center. Unfortunately, he was struck by a neurological disorder called transverse myelitis (TM). TM is an inflammation of a segment of the spinal cord, making him paraplegic; he was forced to cancel the scholarship. In 2009, he reviewed a book for ACM Computing Reviews (CR), Computational Intelligence: a Compendium, which revived his personal research goals in artificial intelligence and neural networks. Consequently, in 2010, he wrote a research paper based on his MS thesis—“STDP within NDS Neurons”—which he submitted to and presented at the International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2010) in Shanghai, China. At the end of 2010, he immigrated to Canada, and is now in his fourth year as a PhD research student in cognitive informatics at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His research interests include chaos theory, chaos control, reservoir computing, computational neuroscience, neurocognition, and the limits of intelligence. He investigates and approaches the exploit of the theory of chaotic nonlinear dynamics in order to emulate cognitive processes, like memory and perception, which are explained and elucidated by the theory of chaotic neurodynamics. The latter favors the role of chaos in the brain as an essential ingredient that makes the brain distinct from any artificial intelligent machine. The impact of this research will help us understand and delineate the limitations of both natural and artificial intelligence. He presented his latest research paper, “Learning algorithm and neurocomputing architecture for NDS neurons, ” in August 2014 at the IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC 2014) in London, England; he received the Best Paper Award. Also, in the same trip, he was invited to do a seminar at Oxford Brookes University to discuss the potential implication of his research work. Mario’s review of The universal machine was selected as one of the best CR reviews of 2013. |
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Fast and accurate time-series clustering Paparrizos J., Gravano L. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 42(2): 1-49, 2017. Type: Article
Clustering temporal data, namely time series, is a challenging and expensive computational task in terms of accuracy and speed. Despite the fact that a wide variety of time-series clustering algorithms exist in the literature, they rem...
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The science of computing: shaping a discipline Tedre M., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2014. 292 pp. Type: Book (978-1-482217-69-8)
What is computer science? Is it art, science, engineering, or mathematics? This book attempts to define “computer science” and lay the groundwork for making it a discipline on its own. Specifically, the book address...
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Apr 7 2016 |
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Computational intelligence: a methodological introduction Kruse R., Borgelt C., Klawonn F., Moewes C., Steinbrecher M., Held P., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2013. 499 pp. Type: Book (978-1-447150-12-1)
This book teaches computational intelligence (CI) in a thorough, methodological manner that is theoretically profound and educationally oriented. The authors present state-of-the-art, real-world CI problems within a technical scope tha...
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Robot intelligence technology and applications 2012: an edition of the presented papers from the 1st International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications Kim J., Matson E., Myung H., Xu P., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, Berlin, Germany, 2013. 1075 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642373-73-2)
When robots employ intelligent phenomena to solve a problem, such phenomena are collectively called “robot intelligence.” This volume presents the latest advancements in robot intelligence technology, which adapts c...
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The universal machine: from the dawn of computing to digital consciousness Watson I., Copernicus Books, New York, NY, 2012. 367 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642281-01-3)
This interesting popular science book sheds light on important works and key figures in the world of computing. It starts with the early work of Charles Babbage, progresses to recent achievements in the fields of computer science (CS) ...
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System for reminding a user of information obtained through a Web browsing experience Morita T., Hidaka T., Tanaka A., Kato Y. World Wide Web (Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on the World Wide Web, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 8-12, 2007) 1327-1328, 2007. Type: Proceedings
Personal Web browsers still don’t support semantic information organization for previously visited Web pages. If such a feature were implemented in a Web browser, then an Internet surfer would be able to easily find important...
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The scientific works of Rainer Kemp (1949-2004) Flajolet P., Nebel M., Prodinger H. Theoretical Computer Science 355(3): 371-381, 2006. Type: Article
From the enumeration of leftist trees [1] to the basics of parsing context-free grammars, Rainer Kemp (1949--2004) had a major role in shaping the grounding of the analysis of algorithms. His research in the theory of formal l...
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