From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Thu Mar 14 04:50:58 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 14 Mar 2002 12:50:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 88613 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2002 12:50:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Mar 2002 12:50:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr) (139.179.30.24) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2002 12:50:56 -0000 Received: from there (neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.97.69]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with SMTP id EBC9F127AB for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:28:39 +0200 (EET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Bilkent University To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban application in wearable computing Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:50:13 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <20020314061311.GC2700@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020314132839.EBC9F127AB@manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr> From: Robin Turner X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810606 X-Yahoo-Profile: digambaranath On Thursday 14 March 2002 14:19, Robert J. Chassell wrote: [snippet] > > The advantage of Lojban is that it is more than an imperative > language in disguise. So at some point, if used for human-computer interaction, would perhaps be a way to help computers get from reacting to commands to responding to their environment. AI has to progress a little first, but I don't think it's inconceivable that in the future I could sit down at my computer (or wear it!) and say, for example, {.oiro'i} and the computer could decide what an appropriate response (or non-response) would be. robin.tr -- "Give me the views, and I'll give you the arguments." - Chrysippus Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin