New name for this user group - suggestions

[Nima]

Hi everyone.

Since I started this user group, I've experienced a negative effect
from the "Artificial Intelligence" part of the name, and if you're
already thinking "That was the whole point wasn't it?" - then you've
proven my point yet once more.

A key component in the name is "and intersecting sciences", and if I
were to draw a Venn diagram of these intersections, the "AI" would be
a very small chunk. Remember that a key goal of this group is to
break away from the purely comp-sci world of AI, and enjoy the company
of all the various sciences that are related to AI, perhaps not even
directly.

For this reason, I'm strongly suggesting a change of name; I would
hate to disappoint any members who attend a talk by misleading them in
any way; having a name that implies a strong degeneralization of what
this group is about can do this as I've seen from contacting almost
every department outside of CS.

I've been thinking about this for a few days now, and tonight I met
some very interesting people at an advanced security course held at
UNSW. They're not at all related to AI - they're all about hacking -
breaking into systems, and security engineering. I thought why should
we limit the group from enjoying such people giving talks - and my
deliberation on a name change started to crystallize even more.

I would love to know what you all think, and a suggestion of names for
the group would be great too!

I personally love TED talks, if you haven't already done so - have a
look at a few on TED.com - you may get a taste for what I've been
craving.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. I only like the
Technology out of those 3 names however, as I see the latter two as
side-effects of more general paradigms - which I'll now brainstorm
here:

Technology
Intelligence
Knowledge
Art
Mind
Growth
Collaboration
Heart/Passion

That could produce a rather strange acronym, but I think it's a good
start.

Now - I ask you all for your feedback - please email the list and
share your ideas.

Nima

[David Basde]

I'm thinking that TEK-MAGE would be a very cool acronym.

David

[Nima]

That's a good start!

Maybe we can be super-lazy and write a script to generate all
permutations and extract all english-sounding words :)

TEACH is in there too, hmmm...

[Heinrich]

Skynet? :)

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 "We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." --Albert Einstein

[alistair buchanan]

How about KET: Knowledge Empowering Technology. or KET[Vector]
implying also magnitude and direction towards...KET and referencing
quantum mechanics because, err thats where I fall down. Although you
do list 8 terms which could be expressed as the eight dimensions of
our vector... if you squint.

[Nima]

I like Empowerment :)

Hmmm, adding S for Science, maybe PSCIMATEK? (But that drops the G)

On Mar 4, 11:48 pm, alistair buchanan <alistair.bucha...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Nima]

The only thing I've come up with that houses all these words is
PSCIKMAGET - which is terrible.

[alistair buchanan]

Drop the P and G that would be fully SICK MATE!

:)

[Nima Talebi]

Haah! Well that's certainly better than my last suggestion. Back to
serious... PSIGMATECK, it has all the words - which reminds - does
anybody want to and words to the list or debate existing ones? We
should do the name change as soon possible, I need to next write a
formal proposal for supporting this group! Nima

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[Nima Talebi]

I'm liking PSIGMATECK more and more.

I'll go with this unless anyone has any last comments.

Quadrescence has already suggested an excellent logo for the Mathematics part of the group, a more touched version of:

P = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \Te^{ck}

\sum is ofcourse the greek SIGMA :)

...I've posted up the image on the discussion page.  Thanks Quad :)

Nima

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[Bochin, Stan]

Get rid of the C at the end :D!

 

PSIGMATEK

 

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[Nima Talebi]

The C was for collaboration, but what do others think of this?

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[Heinrich]

I personally don't have a problem with the c...

[Nima Talebi]

Thanks Heinrich,

I like the TEK - as per Stan and David's first post, but in this case, I think the "collaboration" is important enough to keep.

By the way - more good news - This group will be advertised this week in the Machine Learning class at UNSW by Professor Mike Bain, so we should interest a few more members.

Nima

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[Nima Talebi]

I think we'll stay with the current name, but I got a couple more nice ideas from the Psychology people (RandIter at #Psychology):

ImpactKegs
MagicsKept

Nice anagrams! Maybe we could use them for special functions :)

Nima

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[Philip Thomas]

I am liking TAK-MAGE.

Philip