Bertrand du Castel

• PhD
• Fellow at Austin Extreme Neuroscience

This paper will be rejected by Nature, because it is the ultimate paper about Nature. It turns out God has two ways to play dice; the former is quantum repetition; the latter is quantum recursion. They are exclusive; which is the major discovery I am reporting here. The former explains dynamics; the latter explains vision. That exclusion is the ess...

I fully concur with Dan Everett's hypothesis that grammar is cultural, would it be only because my Linguistic Inquiry [1] article on relative clauses in English provides direct evidence * supporting his related analysis of Pirahã. But I cannot support his subsequent hypothesis: that "Grammar came later", an elaboration of his book How Language Bega...

Abstract: A casing deployment apparatus includes a processing resource with a signal pattern recognition engine unit (420), a tubular measurement unit (404) and a decision unit (416). A first sensor input (402) and a second sensor input (406) are attached to the pattern recognition unit (420) and receive first sensor data and second sensor data cor...

A method for determining a status of a drill string in a wellbore. The method can include obtaining pressure data and hook load data for the drill string. The pressure data can be filtered to obtain pressure sections. A low pressure threshold can be determined based upon the pressure sections. The hook load data can be filtered to obtain hook load...

In his 2012 book How to Create a Mind, Ray Kurzweil defines a “Pattern RecognitionTheory of Mind” that states that the brain uses millions of pattern recognizers, plus modules to check, organize, and augment them. In this article, I further the theory to go beyond pattern recognition and include also pattern activation, thus encompassing both senso...

From crocodiles to birds to apes, and humans too, hardware has been a tool of conquest, pleasure, and solace. But who really needs hardware? The author looks at that question by seeking purpose in computer hardware. Using software as a beacon, he looks at a future without hardware with confidence.

A method and system for automating exploration and production of subterranean resources, using data collected from exploration and production activities, including drilling rig data and/or the like is described. The method and system include the use of a knowledge representation containing representation of uncertainty in the exploration and produc...

A method and system for automating exploration and production of subterranean resources, using data collected from exploration and production activities, including drilling rig data and/or the like is described. The method and system include the use of a knowledge representation containing representation of uncertainty in the exploration and produc...

[Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of6yHI8sygI] Cryptographic modules are protected physical agents whose invention dates back to times where physics was ruling the world. Trust in them is based in the same sentiments as those that built castles and moats. Recently, trust has displaced from brick institutions to the moral encounter of crowd h...

In neuroscience, the prevalence of feedback in neural circuits is a challenge to formalization. Neural feedback occurs within and without modules of neurons, between modules, and between modules of modules. It seems that any model thereof would be either reductionist or trivial. Yet recursive feedback lets stochastic modules produce, recognize, and...

In neuroscience, the prevalence of feedback in neural circuits is a challenge to formalization. Neural feedback occurs within and without modules of neurons, between modules, and between modules of modules. It seems that any model thereof would be either reductionist or trivial. Yet recursive feedback lets stochastic modules produce, recognize, and...

In neuroscience, the prevalence of feedback in neural circuits is a challenge to formalization. Neural feedback occurs within and without modules of neurons, between modules, and between modules of modules. It seems that any model thereof would be either reductionist or trivial. Yet recursive feedback lets stochastic modules produce, recognize, and...

A hierarchy of self-describing grammars presents a formal model of biology. This article introduces activation-sensing grammars and evaluates their power of computation. It then shows that the model can be recursively built by reinforcement learning. By progressively generalizing grammars up to their fixed point of self-description, the model encom...

A hierarchy of self-describing grammars presents a formal model of biology. This article introduces activation-sensing grammars and evaluates their power of computation. It then shows that the model can be recursively built by reinforcement learning. By progressively generalizing grammars up to their fixed point of self-description, the model encom...

A portable device including a biometric voice sensor configured to detect voice information and to take an action in response to speech spoken into the voice sensor. The device also includes a voice processor configured to process the voice sensor signal characteristics. The portable device may encrypt the detected signal and may compare the detect...

In pursuit of increased quality and profitability, many in the manufacturing industry have found success in automating processes. The oil and gas industry is looking for ways to replicate this strategy for drilling. Drilling automation may hold the key to efficiently performing intricate and high-speed tasks and thus make complex wells technically...

[YouTube video of the keynote: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bertrand+du+castel+the+driller%27s+brain)] I first highlight the importance to drilling of specific parts of the driller's brain: the thalamus, the posterior, motor, and prefrontal cortex, and the guts, yes, the guts. I then show in real time computers supplementing these br...

A smart card comprises a microcontroller, a memory unit, a storage unit, and a communications unit. The smart card may be connected to a terminal, which is in turn may be connected to a host computer and/or a network. The smart card is configured to initiate communications with the terminal, which enables the smart card to control the terminal, hos...

A method for determining a status of a drill string in a wellbore. The method can include obtaining pressure data and hook load data for the drill string. The pressure data can be filtered to obtain pressure sections. A low pressure threshold can be determined based upon the pressure sections. The hook load data can be filtered to obtain hook load...

Stochastic Consciousness is early work that evolved into my 2015 Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience article "Pattern Activation/Recognition Theory of Mind" when I realized that I could show that stochastic grammars can be self-describing and mapped to neural circuits, with synapses as probabilistic weights.

In this article I spell out basic principles of human-centered oilfield automation with a specific example in a part of oil and gas exploration and production processes that constitutes a dominant expenditure of the industry, namely, drilling.

The upstream industry, so dependent on people and information, has been pursuing for decades a long quest to bridge the need for expert decision with the barriers to sensory input in the oilfield. Size, remoteness, invisibility, all combine to make the use and accumulation of knowledge difficult indeed. From the data bases of the eighties to the ne...

Identity is at the center of network devices interactions. It is at the center of people interactions as well. When people meet with their device, it is a the center of the digital universe. Advances in understanding of the brain have led in a stronger realization of the importance of the relationship between cognitive and emotional facilities. Thi...

The Earth's heat is an inexhaustible resource whose use creates almost no greenhouse gas emissions. Many of the geothermal wells feeding power plants have been constructed by oilfield workers using essentially traditional drilling and completion equipment and techniques. Engineered geothermal systems (EGS) is a system that can tap the widely availa...

Keynote address, NTMS 2009, Cairo, Egypt

Whoever has participated in an historical event can only be surprised seeing it reported in newspapers, books, or other media. It almost appears as their authors have lived a different experience, sometimes and perhaps often even incompatible with one's own. In 2005 I had the honor of receiving the prestigious visionary award of Card Technology mag...

Part 2 of patent: System and method for automating exploration of production of subterranean resources.

A method and system for interpreting oilfield process data, including drilling rig data and/or the like, is described, the method and system including use of a knowledge representation containing a representation of uncertainty in the oilfield process operations.

Computer Theology provides a better understanding of both religion and the world wide web, leading to a new acceptance of ancient and modern differences. The authors present a broad overview of human and computer evolutionary traits that point to their similarities.

Network smart-card technology, which includes built-in networking capabilities, are proving to be effective in addressing the problems of authentication security and flexibility to the Web services. The network smart card facilitates the communication with the host PC and remote machines by using standard networking infrastructure. This allows it u...

In this paper, we intend to establish a unified semantics to interpret generics and metaphors. We argue that they have much in common beyond their apparent differences, and that there is no firm line separating the two. This work is carried out in a four-layer semantic structure for concepts. Each layer matches up with semantic entities of a certai...

A smart card comprises a microcontroller, a memory unit, a storage unit, and a communications unit. The smart card may be connected to a terminal, which is in turn may be connected to a host computer and/or a network. The smart card is configured to initiate communications with the terminal, which enables the smart card to control the terminal, hos...

Invited presentation (Professor Joachim Posegga).

Keynote address

A metrology device incorporates a programmable smart card. The smart card may be a Java programmable smart card and allows the metrology device to access Java applications and resources while still retaining independent control over its metrological functions. A smart card interface allows the smart card and metrological device to communicate with...

The background of the presentation is a perspective on the development of wireless technology from 2000 to 2010. The foreground of the presentation is a contrasted understanding of intelligence in “natural” wireless (human communication) versus “artificial” wireless (communication between devices).

Dans son célèbre article sur les relatives de l'anglais, Kuroda (1968) assigne aux phrases avec relatives des structures profondes où les déterminants des différentes occurrences du nom pivot de la relativation peuvent être de définitions opposées. La forme des structures profondes de Kuroda permet d'établir un relation privilégiée entre les phrase...

At the end of his well-known paper on English relatives, Kuroda (1968) raises the question of the correct analysis of so-called "stacked" relative clauses in the system of rules he proposes. Vergnaud (1974, 18), in his thesis on French relatives, shows that there is an analysis of these relatives that appears to be formally correct in Kuroda's fram...

The full title of my 1977 thesis is (translation): "Recursive Mechanisms in Relativization; Application to a Class of Nominalizations". The thesis includes my Linguistic Inquiry 1978 article: "Form and Interpretation of Relative Clauses". Starting from French "être à" constructions ("to be at"), it presents various phenomena out of which the Lingui...