Congratulations Dr Feel Good, well deserved. Looking forward to hearing about what you get up to in the future... Duncan
Brad Chapman
· 8 months ago
Congrats!
Cameron Neylon
· 8 months ago
Congrats! Looks like you're spreading the good word as well!
Duncan
· 8 months ago
Congratulations Doctor (Feel) Good!
Matt Cassarino
· 8 months ago
Congrats Ben! I mean Dr.
Like from Spies Like Us: doctor, doctor. Doctor, doctor. Doctor, doctor!
Did you record your defense on video? I'd also love to read your thesis (or (happy to show my ignorance) whatever your final piece of work is called).
Now what?
Pedro Beltrao
· 8 months ago
Congratulations Dr Good :)
Shirley Wu
· 8 months ago
Congratulations, Dr. Good! Can't wait to join you on the other side, the grass looks so green over there...
bgood
· 8 months ago
Thanks everyone! We will see about the next steps..
Shirley, yes the grass is indeed greener over here on the other side, but it is also a strange and uncharted land. It feels like I've been pushing for years to reach the top of this mountain and now that I made it I find myself in the middle of a seemingly endless plateau - most of which is hidden from my view. The only solution? - pick a direction and start walking I guess.
Egon Willighagen
· 8 months ago
Congrats!
Secondly, I was wondering what you replied to Wyeth's question "What emerging technologies do you think might have the biggest impact on the future of your research"? Your comment on the question suggests that you did immediately see emerging technologies outside your own research...
PS. I love to get a copy of your thesis.
bgood
· 8 months ago
Thanks Egon. Honestly I really didn't have a good answer on the spot. To clarify, most of the discussion oriented around ways to crowdsource knowledge acquisition in the name of ontology creation and semantic annotation. The only thing that came to mind when he asked the question was improved natural language processing - but I don't really think that was what he was hoping to hear nor do I think we will see any paradigm shifting improvements in the area for a while. (Plenty of incremental improvements all the time of course.) He mentioned better voice-based interfaces with computers but I'm not really sure if they would help. Since then, I've been thinking about it and, if given the chance to answer the question again, I would probably say something about Mobile devices -> which could might connect directly to his ideas about voice-based interfaces. In the end, I don't think we need any new technology to effect dramatic change - just better use of existing human and technical resources.
The revised thesis will be up online via the UBC library (open access!) within about a week. I'll post a link to it when its ready.
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Like from Spies Like Us: doctor, doctor. Doctor, doctor. Doctor, doctor!
Did you record your defense on video? I'd also love to read your thesis (or (happy to show my ignorance) whatever your final piece of work is called).
Now what?
Shirley, yes the grass is indeed greener over here on the other side, but it is also a strange and uncharted land. It feels like I've been pushing for years to reach the top of this mountain and now that I made it I find myself in the middle of a seemingly endless plateau - most of which is hidden from my view. The only solution? - pick a direction and start walking I guess.
Secondly, I was wondering what you replied to Wyeth's question "What emerging technologies do you think might have the biggest impact on the future of your research"? Your comment on the question suggests that you did immediately see emerging technologies outside your own research...
PS. I love to get a copy of your thesis.
spot. To clarify, most of the discussion oriented around ways to
crowdsource knowledge acquisition in the name of ontology creation and
semantic annotation. The only thing that came to mind when he asked
the question was improved natural language processing - but I don't
really think that was what he was hoping to hear nor do I think we
will see any paradigm shifting improvements in the area for a while.
(Plenty of incremental improvements all the time of course.) He
mentioned better voice-based interfaces with computers but I'm not
really sure if they would help. Since then, I've been thinking about
it and, if given the chance to answer the question again, I would
probably say something about Mobile devices -> which could might
connect directly to his ideas about voice-based interfaces. In the
end, I don't think we need any new technology to effect dramatic
change - just better use of existing human and technical resources.
The revised thesis will be up online via the UBC library (open
access!) within about a week. I'll post a link to it when its ready.