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Marti Ward
ALLi Author Member
Location: Australia & New Zealand
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, New Adult, Academic, Young Adult (YA), Popular Science, Crime, Narrative Nonfiction, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Writing & Publishing, Nature/Science, Children's general
Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
Prof. Powers has 300 refereed publications on science and technology from behavioural science to robotic engineering. Several have received best paper awards, either locally or internationally, and in addition Powers has received local and international awards from universities, professional societies, and national and international government bodies.
Powers is best known for his work in Natural Language Learning (as Founder of SIGNLL and CoNLL) as well as his development of the chance-correct evaluation methodology used in AI (notably the Bookmaker Informedness, Markedness and Correlation measures).
Powers has published three non-fiction books (traditionally as David M W Powers) and four award-winning science fiction books (independently as Marti Ward). He is editor-in-chief of Springer-Nature’s Cognitive Science and Technology book series.
Marti Ward's books
Machine Learning of Natural Language
In the 1960s Chomsky decided that language couldn't be learned due to 'Poverty of the Stimulus' based on certain empirical and theoretical evidence, pushing major questions around the origins and nature of language back to biology and evolutionary theory – and then ignoring them. In the 1970s we met because we both share the same views of language, that it had to be learned, –and that Chomsky had too small a view of language.
Time for PsyQ
The building of the hadron collider was once big news, but now it is just part of the scenery for most of the community, until Airlie and other children start showing unusual gifts. Airlie uses her psi abilities to solve a number of mysteries and crimes at her school and in her neighborhood - and comes to the attention of Inspector Jonathan Humble of Minor Crimes.
Casindra Lost
Captain Sideris is a loner and knows LETO ships like nobody else, having risen to command the Lunar-Earth construction fleet, as they build ships to mine asteroids and colonize Mars. Suddenly he finds the colonization effort is for another planet, in another galaxy, and he's the sole human guinea pig being gated through a wormhole with an AI playing Noah to LETO SS Casindra's ark.
Moraturi Lost
20-year-old Veterinary Nurse/Trainee Medical Officer Eva Hughes is junior officer on SS Moraturi, transporting 500 colonists to New Eden. Eva’s responsibility is the domestic and farm animals they are bringing, but she is working towards qualifying as both a veterinary and a medical doctor. After a gamma burst in the wormhole, Eva finds herself looking after colonists whose cryobeds failed, and who now show memory loss for specific things. When another wave of radiation hits, the ship slips out of the wormhole, somewhere, sometime… and Eva finds herself in charge of an impossible mission. The quick trip through the wormhole has turned into an epic journey of biblical proportions. The saga begins...
Moraturi Ring
What a 21st!Eva's big birthday 'present' was a tired old spaceship lost in space and time, a motley crew of amnesiac patients, 500 colonists in cryo, and a mission that would take a lifetime - assuming she could keep everyone alive till they made planetfall.