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- Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?
- The fate of the human species depends on AI Artificial Intelligence entities far smarter than us and who aren't prone to wipe out or enslave us. That is one of the topics to be discussed by luminaries in the AI world at the Singularity Summit 2007 held at the Palace...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Processor geeks convene at Hot Chips 19
- News.com is covering the Hot Chips 19 conference on high performance processors taking place this week at Stanford University. Among the highlights, chip-to-chip interconnect technology; wireless HDTV transmission for home use; looking beyond CMOS to photonics, nanotech and quantum computing; the Tile64 chip from Tilera; science fiction icon Vernor Vinge...
- Tags: Processor, Quad-core, High-performance, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- William Gibson: Forget about corporate futurism
- Silicon.com has an interview the William Gibson, author of the cyberspace classic Neuromancer and of the just published Spook Country. In the interview, Gibson is asked why he doesn't write about the future in his latest books:The trouble is there are enough crazy factors and wild cards on the table...
- Tags: Silicon.com, Possibility, Interview, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Live forever coming soon says Ray Kurzweil...are we already in the Singularity?
- Live forever coming soon says Ray Kurzweil...are we already in the Singularity?The Graphs are right....so farI too have been following Ray's theory on the Singularity (read: Law of Accelerating Returns for whole theory) as well as Vinge and others.It is interesting to note that one of Ray's charts shows the...
- Tags: Singularity, Live Forever, Ray Kurzweil
- Discussion threads 2007-07-12
- Ten leaders brainstorm U.S. global leadership at Rockefeller University
- Ten technology, business, academic and government heavyweights gathered at Rockefeller University in New York City today at the Newsweek Executive Forum “Global Leadership Conference on Science, Technology and Education" to brainstorm: “Can America Compete” and “Keeping the Lead.”Brian Williams, Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News, as moderator of “Keeping...
- Tags: Williams
- Blog posts 2006-06-06
- Responding to Readers
- My January 30th blog was about the boot time controversy. As various people pointed out this is really a complete non issue that somehow became a metric favoring Windows over Linux simply because Microsoft made the early appearance of the login screen a design goal for Windows/XP. What I...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, Unix, attack, Linux
- Blog posts 2006-02-06
- Using Cell: a modest proposal
- Using Cell: a modest proposalI can't think of anyone more "open"than pornographers! But I just don't see them "teaming up" to work on ANYTHING together. Any VC porno companies out there?It's an intriging ideaThe R+D would have to be done by a software vendor who would purport to be packaging...
- Tags: Processors, Cell, Sony PlayStation 2
- Discussion threads 2006-01-31
- Gates at CES: Digital workstyle circa 2010
- Gates at CES: Digital workstyle circa 2010Scary new world.If life ends up revolving around digital technology as opposed to technology around life and Microsoft is at the center of it all I can say is I am glad we only live around a hundred years.So how many times did it...
- Tags: Patches, Linux, Operating systems, SP-2, patch management, Scary New World, service pack, operating system, patch
- Discussion threads 2006-01-05
- Ray Kurzweil accelerates change at weekend confab
- This past weekend Stanford University hosted the Accelerating Change 2005 conference, bringing together visionaries, academics, and forward-thinking executives to share thoughts on Artificial intelligence AI—in the broadest sense of the word—and Intelligence amplification IA, which, according to the conference Website, "empowers human beings and their social, political, and economic environments."...
- Tags: Kurzweil
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- Goodbye SOA grunt work?
- "You stop sending me information, and you start getting me some."- Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987Our IT systems and processes, thanks in large part to standardization and Web services specs, are pulling data out of stovepipes and making it accessible to anyone who needs or wants it. A purchase order...
- Tags: Pink
- Blog posts 2005-03-02
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