四螺旋创新集群:研究型大学人工智能发展生态重构与路向探究——以加拿大多伦多大学为例

以人工智能为代表的知识迭代发展,促使知识生产模式发生重大转变,催生了“大学—产业—政府—公众”四螺旋动力结构的建立和研究型大学知识生产新生态重构。以多伦多大学人工智能发展为例,考察其四螺旋利益相关主体及实践。从内在机理看,4个主体在互动运作中不仅重新确定了各自角色,而且还建立了大学(知识)—产业(产品)—政府(治理)—公众(公益)的新型逻辑链条,平衡公私利益格局,把公益指向作为人工智能四螺旋运作的中心目标;从外在特征看,4个主体形成了以大学为中心的区域创新网络,并牵引其他主体形成环高校创新集群。当前,我国在人工智能发展中不断发力,已进入世界第一方阵,但仍需要在国际比较学习中不断提升自身竞争力。基于案例分析,我国研究型大学发展人工智能有必要把握4个方面:一是走进中心,塑造大学在人工智能发展中的领导地位;二是以专促通,创新研究型大学人工智能专业培养模式;三是引企入研,提升校企合作人工智能创新的转化升级;四是人本导向,突出大学在人工智能发展中的公共价值。总体来看,我国研究型大学发展人工智能不仅要面临技术上的挑战,更要面临来自治理的挑战。     

天然自然与人工自然的张力--信息论视域中的SARS事件形而上学探源

自然界在人类出现以前以天然自然的状态存在着，遵循自己固有的演化规律。人类创造的人工自然中所蕴含的人工信息具有直接和间接效应，其中间接效应尤其具有不可预测、难以控制、不可逆、强度大等特点。随着科学技术的发展，人工信息及其给生态系统和人类社会带来的效应都飞速增加。人类社会对人工信息的正面效应和负面效应的承受力是不对称的，大量增加的负面效应(例如非典病毒)如果超过临界值，可以将人类社会摧毁。因此它预示眷一个新时代的来临。     

知识经济的可持续发展刍议

知识经济被视为实现可持续发展的必由之路，但它本身也有个可持续发展的问题。知识经济本质上是人的经济，它淡化了经济发展对天然资源的依赖关系，强化了对人自己创造的知识资源的依赖性，使得科技和教育的发展成为实现其可持续发展的关键；同时，处理和运用知识的手段和能力是知识转化为资源的重要环节，高科技产业的发展也因之成为其必要的条件；知识经济又是商品化经济，知识产权的保护等措施是保证知识生产和再生产顺利进行的环境支持。     

Accurate forecasting of the undecided population in a public opinion poll

The problem of pollsters is addressed which is to forecast accurately the final answers of the undecided respondents to the primary question in a public opinion poll. The task is viewed as a pattern‐recognition problem of correlating the answers of the respondents to the peripheral questions in the survey with their primary answers. The underlying pattern is determined with a supervised artificial neural network that is trained using the peripheral answers of the decided respondents whose primary answers are also known. With peripheral answers as inputs, the trained network outputs the most probable primary response of an undecided respondent. For a poll conducted to determine the approval rating of the (former) Philippine president, J. E. Estrada in December 1999 and March 2000, the trained network predicted with a 95% success rate the direct responses of a test population that consists of 24.57% of the decided population who were excluded in the network training set. For the undecided population (22.67% of December respondents; 23.67% of March respondents), the network predicted a final response distribution that is consistent with the approval/disapproval ratio of the decided population. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The melatonin rhythm: both a clock and a calendar

The paper briefly reviews the data which shows that the circadian production and secretion of melatonin by the pineal gland can impart both daily, i.e., clock, and seasonal, i.e., calendar, information to the organism. The paper summarizes the 3 patterns of nocturnal melatonin production that have been described. Clearly, regardless of the pattern of nocturnal melatonin production a particular species normally displays, the duration of nightime elevated melatonin is proportional to the duration of the night length. Since daylength under natural conditions changes daily the melatonin rhythm, which adjusts to the photoperiod sends time of year information to the organism. The melatonin receptors which subserve the clock message sent by the pineal gland in the form of a melatonin cycle may reside in the biological clock itself, namely, the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN). The melatonin receptors that mediate seasonal changes in reproductive physiology are presumably those that are located on the pars tuberalis cells of the anterior pituitary gland. Besides these receptors which likely mediate clock and calendar information, melatonin receptors have been described in other organs. Interestingly, the distribution of melatonin receptors is highly species-specific. Whereas the clock and calendar information that the melatonin cycle imparts to the organism relies on cell membrane receptors, a fact that is of some interest considering the high lipophilicity of melatonin, recent studies indicate that other functions of melatonin may require no receptor whatsoever.     

专家系统技术在注塑模故障诊断中的应用

论述了用人工智能技术对模具故障进行诊断和确定对策的原理和方法。对模具在工作中常遇到的与模具制造、工艺条件及塑料材料有关的问题及相应对策进行了归纳整理，组成了模具诊断与维修知识库。收集了常用工程塑料的各种有关成型工艺条件和主要性能，建立了塑料材料数据库。采用正向推理控制策略搜索知识库，并将推理结果与理论计算结果进行对比校验，最后确定出模具工作中出现故障的原因，并输出相应的解决办法和建议．     

浅谈人工挖孔桩

分析了人工挖孔桩施工中遇到的问题(如水、溶洞、淤泥层、流砂),并提出了相应的处理措施。     

论辅助生殖技术引发的伦理问题及其应对机制

简单介绍了辅助生殖技术,分析了辅助生殖技术引发的伦理问题,提出了应对这些伦理问题的机制。