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Artificial brains for robots?

Artificial brains for robots?Interesting...I read somwhere where this scientist thorized that computer are becoming so powerful that it might be possible to transfer the entire life experience of a person into one....ie you into a computer. Now "IF" they can make workable robots well.....Being a diabetic from age 6...

Tags: Robots, Asimov, CyberDyne, robot, Artificial brain

Discussion threads 2007-08-30

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IBM makes progress toward 'thinking' computing system

This is a great set of tools for exploring neural net connnectionismThe human brain is powered by large numbers of parallel processing neurons. This is really cool since it does emulate the structures in brains it should be able to do really deep research into how large connection systems...

Tags: IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists

Yeah, they have been saying this same thing for years....and everytime, they find a way to make computers even faster. I don't think that they will EVER reach a limit for computer power. Not ever.FacinatingI always knew there would be a wall somewhere, but what will be needed with that...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

DEVONthink Pro 2.0pb7 (Mac)

In today's world, everything is digital. From shopping receipts to important research papers, your life often fills your hard drive in the form of emails, PDFs, Word documents, multimedia files and more. Questions eventually pop up, like where do you store all of this stuff? How do you organize these...

Tags: Multimedia, Apple Macintosh, DEVONthink, DEVONthink Professional Office, E-mail, Microsoft Word, Online Communications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-15

DEVONthink Pro Office 2.0pb7 (Mac)

In today's world, everything is digital. From shopping receipts to important research papers, your life often fills your hard drive in the form of emails, PDFs, Word documents, multimedia files and more. Questions eventually pop up, like where do you store all of this stuff? How do you organize these...

Tags: Multimedia, Apple Macintosh, DEVONthink, DEVONthink Professional Office, E-mail, Microsoft Word, Online Communications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-15

Teflon: is it safe?

Teflon: is it safe?And? If it does much more good then harmthen we have to live with it. CRT monitors and cell phones "may" cause tumors, but they are both used in the process of saving lives. Should they disapear, too? It is like saying that some heart medication that...

Tags: teflon, Teflon, plastics

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Wolfram/Alpha details engine's computing power

Wolfram/Alpha details engine's computing powerI sense too much hypethis is supposed to be some sort of artificial brain but it lacks the stuctured data to operate.I don't see how the internet could be the right data feed to train it.

Tags: Wolfram/Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Advances in TREKnology

In September of 1966, the NBC television network released an iconic but short lived series that would inspire generations of inventors and technologists to bring about changes in our daily lives in the use of technology that many of us take for granted but was once...

Tags: Netscape Communicator, Star Trek, Technology, Information Technology Star Trek, McCoy, E-mail Clients, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Autonomous Mental Development: A New Interdisciplinary Transactions for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Although some baby animals can get up and walk within hours after birth, what a human child learns during the first two years of life easily exceeds what those animals learn in their entire lifetime. Furthermore, besides the explosive growth that occurs during this period, it is now well documented...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Neuron

White papers 2009-05-01

Chemical mind hacking: legit, or corporate cheating?

Chemical mind hacking: legit, or corporate cheating?Do you or someone else you know use neuroenhancers?Do you or someone else you know use neuroenhancers?Tell us what you've seen and heard here, in TalkBack.You better use a neuroenhancer or you'll be left behind.That's the message I came away with here Andrew. ...

Tags: speed freak, hacking, Poeple

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

News to know: IBM, Open Cloud Manifesto, Web 2.0 Expo, Conficker, Microsoft ad

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM revamps server lineup based on Intel's Nehalem Larry Dignan: Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Artificial blood, cartilage, and...brain?

Researchers report a dose of new additions this week to the list of lab-produced versions of biological matter; And, taken together, the trio of announcements below span the gamut of organic complexity that they're trying to replicate. First, a team of biochemists from the University of Pennsylvania...

Tags: Researcher, Brain, Protein, Neuron, Team Management, Semiconductors, Management, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-27

Combination Lite 2.0 (Mobile)

Combination Lite is a brain-expanding puzzle game, designed by Dr. Chris Jefferson, expert in Artificial Intelligence, this new puzzle game is sure to entertain and stump you while expanding your brain power. The idea is simple: Place all the pieces on the board, so that pieces of different colours cannot...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Bubble Scope, Games, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-26

Advancing the prosthetic aesthetic

Experimental prosthetic arms in labs across the country will soon pave the way for commercial versions to antiquate the last major upgrade that took place almost a hundred years ago. That was the cable-operated prosthetic hook (for above-the-elbow amputees). Thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects...

Tags: Patient, DARPA, Chicago, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-02-20

A robot that "evolves" and adapts

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Credit: Robert Gordon University "][/caption] British artificial intelligence engineers have created a robot that mimics the evolutionary process in just the span of a few hours.  They programmed a robot’s “brain” to automatically grow in size and complexity as its physical makeup is...

Tags: Network, Macleod, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-02-06

Cortex Command test build 22 (Windows)

In the world of Cortex Command, many humans have opted to amputate their entire natural bodies in order to prolong their lives and enable interstellar space travel. Their disembodied brains are hardly helpless, however, as they can remotely control all kinds of machines and craft through artificial interfaces.Playing as one...

Tags: Body, Data Realms, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-01-28

Personal Iris Recognition Using Neural Network 1.0 (Windows)

Artificial Neural Networks ANNs are programs designed to simulate the way a simple biological nervous system is believed to operate. They are based on simulated nerve cells or neurons, which are joined together in a variety of ways to form networks. These networks have the capacity to learn, memorize and...

Tags: Neural Network, Node, Microsoft Windows, Neuron, Luigi Rosa, Artificial Neural Network, Networking

Software downloads 2009-01-27

Combination 1.0 (Mobile)

Combination is a new, unique and addictive brain-expanding puzzle game. Designed by Dr. Chris Jefferson, expert in Artificial Intelligence, this new puzzle game is sure to entertain and stump you while expanding your brain power. The idea is simple: Place all the pieces on the board, so that pieces of...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Bubble Scope, Games, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-22

Free the Obama Blackberry

Free the Obama BlackberryExecutive recordsDana said: "For too many in the government and media, the main lesson of Watergate seems to have been don’t record anything. If they can’t get proof you can be above the law." I agree the "don't record anything" attitude is not working in practice....

Tags: Government, author obviously, No. People, Obama, Obama Blackberry

Discussion threads 2008-11-16

(Gallery: Honda's walking assist device)

(Gallery: Honda's walking assist device)RE: (Gallery: Honda's walking assist device)The next phase will be to take those that can't use their arms or legs and are house bound to be connected by the web to a serogate android like Honda's little guy that climbs stares and such and then these...

Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Honda Motor Co., Gallery

Discussion threads 2008-11-07