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Sinularity Summit 2007: Will you still love me tomorrow?: Â Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...; Tags: Professor, Robot, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-08
Singularity Summit 2007: iPod of the future: Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT and CTO of iRobot. From 1997 - 2003 and from 2003 - 2007, respectively, he was Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He knows a lot about robots, AI...; Tags: Professor, Apple iPod, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Rodney Brooks, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-08

iRobot's Brooks starts worker bot company: Even as iRobot won a wide-open contract with the Army, the company's part-time CTO, Rodney Brooks, left the company to start a new robotics firm, Cambridge-based Heartland Robotics. The new company is focused on industrial robotics, which logic would dictate would put...; Tags: iRobot Corp., Robotics, Bot, Worker, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-09-03
Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer: So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...; Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Your Cards and Letters: First, let me thank everyone who took a moment to comment on my first entry. It looks like there is an audience for this kind of commentary, although not everyone was thrilled with me taking the longer view. I’ll do what I can to relate a bit more of what...; Tags: Chris; Blog posts 2006-07-07

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