Talk:James S. Albus

Real-Time Control System

I removed the following sentence, which I suppose is not quite correct:

While at NIST, Albus developed a theory for intelligent system design named the Reference Model Architecture, which is a hierarchical control system inspired by the Real-Time Control System.

See further discussion Real-Time Control System. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 21:17, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Biography section

Hi

THe biography section is more like a CV than a biography. Needs a bit of tidying up I think.

Chaosdruid (talk) 12:33, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

In fact, a large part of this article was copy-pasted straight from his CV. No wonder the man seemed to have solved every problem in cognitive science and robotics. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 20:41, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

When this article was expanded in 2009 Albus was working at the NIST, and (most of) the data was made available on the NIST website (for example from the http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/personnel/albus/vitae.htm (now no longer active)). I was under the impression, that therefore this data is in the public domain, but I could have been mistaken. -- Mdd (talk) 22:50, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

It seems the CV document is moved 29 October 2010 from the isd.mel.nist.gov website to http://www.james-albus.org/docs/CV_10_29_10.pdf . If there is a problem here I could contact the relatives and ask for permission. -- Mdd (talk) 23:59, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Then still it's not a reliable source for bold claims such as that CMAC "is orders of magnitude faster in learning non-linear functions than back-propagation" or that 4D/RCS "is designed to enable any level of intelligent behavior". The fact that someone puts their CV up at an institute website doesn't mean everything in it can be taken at face value: the notability and value of all of Albus's inventions should be established by reliable, third-party sources. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 01:12, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

I fully agree that this article needs improvement, more third party sources are needed, and those bold claims should have been put into perspective. I appreciate your effort in this direction. I do question the {{non-free}}, {{unreliable sources}} tags and the "removing copy-pasting from Albus's CV", just because it is copy/pasted.

As to the third party sources, according to Google Scholar (see here) James S. Albus is a high cited scientist (cited 5.000 to 10.000 times). This should give him some credit. -- Mdd (talk) 02:45, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for this update -- Mdd (talk) 10:28, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Obituary/verification of death

Apparently Dr. Albus died in April 2011 but I cannot locate any published information on this; checked the NIST website and the Washington Post with no success. Can this information be located and noted in his biographical information, including family members?--Msr69er (talk) 08:15, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

I did a quick GIS and did not find anything after 2002. The NIST.gov search page turns up some interesting things, including a link to papers by Albus, but nothing beyond Jul 2004. — Loadmaster (talk) 15:54, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

I also tried posting an email from his home page (www.james-albus.org), but the email send operation (addressed to an account at aol.com) failed. It's likely that the web page and email account have not been maintained for quite some time. — Loadmaster (talk) 16:05, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

I found an extremely brief obituary at Tributes.com, which appears to be the very same James S. Albus. The site says it received the obituary from the US Government's Social Security Death Index. — Loadmaster (talk) 17:00, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

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