User talk:Davimaro

Yay! your on wikipedia. Thank you for contributing, I'm the user who created your academic stub. The reason I created your wiki page, (and the reason why it hasn't been deleted yet ^:) is because of the work of you, and your colleagues have web-published, on developing an approach to solve artificial cognizance using language. Which I believe is significant enough to be added to wikipedia and improved upon.

Currently, your page is ok as a stub, but wiki-biographies can be improved upon greatly by citing awards, and accomplishments of notoriety. They tend to receive a lot of negative criticism if the biography is about someone not globally known, and who is currently living. This helps to keep the high schoolers from promoting their garage bands on wikipedia. So while your page is a stub, I would like to improve it.

So the story of your page existance was that I read an article published by by PhysOrg.com[1] which I felt was news and info that could be added to wikipedia, which lead me to Stefano Nolfi, and you (Davide Marocco). So I looked around, read some stuff and added this to the AI page on 20 Feb 2008[2]

Language and thought

Scientists, philosophers, and pyschologists have understood for many years that language influences thought. Philosophers of language commonly investigate about how language shapes definitions of truth and perception. Human behavior is believed to be directly influenced by language development, known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. Researchers are currently looking at ways to adapt linguistic determinism into a object-self oriented recognition. By giving machines a way to develop and evolve their own language, scientists hope to approach cognitive intelligence in a new way. By allowing computers to develop their own language, researchers hope that computers will evolve cognitive skills that have so far been difficult to tackle, such as abstraction, imagination and conceptualization.

This was removed from the AI article, not for it's content, but for it's placement. The AI article is rather long, and we're working on how to shorten it now, however the Evolutionary robotics article, where this information should belong, is rather underdeveloped at the moment. Adding this information to Evolutionary robotics at this time is not currently possible as it would violate policy WP:UNDUE, putting too much emphasis on your work alone.

I am not expert in cognitive science, far from it actually, I'm just a user wishing to improve articles on wikipedia. So if you would like to contribute further, I understand that your busy, as we all are, but you are an expert in the field and can help me significantly simply by answering a few questions.

• Is the information I added above correct? misrepresented?
• Who are the big names, and projects that are using language evolution as an approach to AI?
• What have been the major breakthroughs and disasters of this approach?
• What is the fundamental rationale guiding researchers into believing machine language evolution can significantly improve AI research development?
• Take a guess and tell me, what ratio of researchers are working on this approach? How many colleagues or compatriots do you have?

(Know that anything you tell me can NOT be added to wikipedia directly, as it would violate WP:NOR. It's just helps me get ideas where to look)

Anything I find out will not be able to be added until the evolutionary robotics article is in a better shape. If you want to contribute there that would of course be great. Otherwise, if you could give me some tips, on how you think the article needs to be improved, that would also be very helpful. Such things like:

• What are other significant approaches being studied in Evolutionary robotics?
• What is lacking in this article? What should be there that isn't?
• What are the fundamental differences in how people perceive, work, and classify what the study of evolutionary robotics is about?

Finally regarding your own biography, your welcome to add anything you like, but your identity is not yet verifiable. As a notable wikipedian(Category:Notable_Wikipedians) your have certain rights, including the right to remain anonymous, and certain responsibilities. Currently your only notable for one thing. While your research, which I believe, is significant enough to allow you a place on wikipedia, it would be best if we could make your stub into an article. Including simple family history ("Me mum is an architect" and "Me Da was a brewer"), place of birth, date of birth, other notable achievements, and current research. Like I said, there is nothing from stopping you from editing your own profile, in fact I encourage you to do so, however so that the addition of material does not violate any conflict of interest it's probably best that any major breakthrough you make, have made, any mistake, scandal, or anything of significant note be first added to a offsite webpage... such as 3rd party web page, and then you can add it, or have someone like me add it for you. This will help your stub from being deleted in the future.

Well that was rather longer than I had intended. I do apologize for that, I have a bit of a habit to ramble. I'm very pleased you found your stub, I hope it meets with your approval and hope to see you around wikipedia! :)  :)--Sparkygravity (talk) 14:59, 6 March 2008 (UTC)