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Cognition Technologies unveils their Semantic Map

Los Angeles-based Cognition Technologies today announced availability of their Semantic Map to the English language. According to Cognition's press release, "[their] Semantic Map provides software applications with an 'understanding' of more than four million semantic contexts" The...

Tags: Press Release, Software, Web, Cognition Technology, Cognition Technologies, Channel Management, Semantic Web, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-16

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News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware’s Datacenter OS: Windows isn’t the competition ...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-17

A robotic chef for your kitchen?

The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...

Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-15

A new kind of cognitive autonomous robots

European computer scientists have developed a new kind of cognitive robots. In two articles, ICT Results describes how the researchers have combined classical rule-based artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks ANNs (links to part 1 and to part 2). This learning robot 'employs ANNs to manage the low-level functions based...

Tags: Artificial Neural Network, AI, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?

This came in a press release today from Arizona State University. Biomedical informatics is seen as critical to advancing "customized" medicine, in which care is tailored to specific health profiles of individual patients. It is also emerging as an essential tool in federal and state government...

Tags: Electronic Health Record, Biomedical, Health Care, Biomedical Informatic, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Business Ethics, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Artificial brains for robots?

An international team of European researchers has implanted an artificial cerebellum -- the portion of the brain that controls motor functions -- inside a robotic system. This EU-funded project is dubbed SENSOPAC, an acronym for 'SENSOrimotor structuring of perception and action for emerging cognition.' One of the goals of this...

Tags: Project, Robot, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-28

Smart cars... from Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories SNL are more known for their research on nuclear weapons than for making our cars safer. Still, some SNL researchers are designing safety features for cars that can analyze human behavior. This could lead to smarter cars which would tell us that we're tired or tell our...

Tags: Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-25

CognitionSearch seeks more precise results

Cognition Technologies entered the search engine arena with CognitionSearch, which applies linguistic analysis of queries and documents to render more precise results than the popular search engines for English language queries. Currently, CognitionSearch is technology demonstration, focused on three discrete content categories--medicine, politics and legal. The company is also working...

Tags: SEARCH, CognitionSearch, Scott Jarus, Cognition Technologies

Blog posts 2007-03-20

Galludet wins large NSF grant to study learning

A $3.5 million grant has been awarded to Gallaudet University to develop a National Science of Learning center devoted to researching visual language and learning, reports Campus Technology. The National Science Foundation grant money, given out over a two-year time period, will be used to fund the Science...

Tags: Education Technology, Research, Higher Ed, VL2

Blog posts 2007-01-23

Google's achilles heel

Google's achilles heelPaid Search & the Issue of RelevancyNot only did you recycle the title of a far more insightful article written over year ago by Alice LaPlante(http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177103024), but you failed to provide adequate support for your argument against the relevancy of Google's organic search results. While it is true...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2006-12-13

Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricity

Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricityIt's ok, David...Dan misuses the term "deconstruct"...as well.There seems to be a penchant for media types to expropriate terms philsophopy: paradigm Thomas Kuhn, deconstruct (Derrida, Heidegger) amonng others. Y'all think it makes ya sound real cool! But we (who know better...ex-philosophy majors) forgive, you...

Tags: Strategy, centricity, Wittgenstein

Discussion threads 2006-05-26

The great Singularity debate

Saturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus. Very orderly and probably not very comfortable for the panelists who don't...

Tags: Kurzweil, Singularity

Blog posts 2006-05-13

Google accused of biopiracy

Google accused of biopiracyI think this group is a little confusedOkay, first they define "biopiracy" as:the "monopolization of genetic resources"Then they accuse Google of biopiracy for creating a free and openly available database of genome sequences.Not exactly sure how a free and openly available database exactly results in monopolization of...

Tags: Google Inc., piracy

Discussion threads 2006-03-30

This is your mind. This is your mind in the Army.

The Army and DARPA are working on a system that will, wait for it ... read soldier's minds. Yes, we've come that far. Federal Computer Week explains: The augmented cognition system uses neuro-physiological sensors that assess a warfighter’s attention by measuring and recording brain activity and body...

Tags: Future Force Warrior

Blog posts 2006-01-18