What’s Aral Balkan up to?

Posted by Serge Jespers on Jan 5, 2008 in Events, Industry | Comments Off

According to Wikipedia: “In mathematics, singularity theory is the study of the failure of manifold structure. A loop of string can serve as an example of a one-dimensional manifold, if one neglects its width. What is meant by a singularity can be seen by dropping it on the floor.” That still doesn’t tell me anything… Let’s try a dictionary
1 the state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular : he believed in the singularity of all cultures.- a peculiarity or odd trait.

2 Physics & Mathematics a point at which a function takes an infinite value, esp. in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole.

3 ( the Singularity) a point in the future (often set at or around 2030 A.D.) beyond which overwhelming technical changes (especially the development of superhuman artificial intelligence) make reliable predictions impossible.

Aha… That’s it… Aral Balkan is working on superhuman artificial intelligence that will change the world we live in… or maybe not. Come on Aral, tell us what you’re up to instead of teasing us to death ;-)