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Earliest Coffee
Before the first 8 AM lecture begins, while the crew team puts its oars in the water and new life unfolds at University Hospital, the campus comes alive with gardeners, electricians, road crews builders beginning another summer day before it gets too hot.
Language 600
AI does not merely follow language standards through widespread daily use: it helps create them We explore English as a common carrier for technical language in order to inform our response to a NIST Call for Letters of Interest.
Tokens
The principal unit of measurement for artificial intelligence is not the token—it is the meaning conveyed by standardized language. American English is effectively the de facto reference language for most modern LLM tokenization. During today's session we explore the state of play in the AI zietgeist. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
print(“Python”)
Python is an open-source programming language that enables applications across a wide range of domains; not the least of which are artificial intelligence platforms. In real asset facility management it is the "glue code" that binds the Internet of Things and Large Language Models. The stable version of Python 3.14.5 was released for public use on May 10th.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Innovation and Competitiveness in Artificial Intelligence
In May of this year NIST renamed and expanded its former "AI Safety Institute Consortium" into the NIST "Artificial Intelligence Consortium". This shift moves the focus from primarily safety toward AI measurement, innovation, adoption, and U.S. competitiveness. NIST is actively seeking new members. Participation involves a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). Letters of interest are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Morgan Wallen
Curated social media posts about how the largest college stadium in the world accommodated the Country Swing zeitgeist -- the Woodstock of our time. With links to our work in public safety and electrotechnology standards.