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Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:47:36 GMT

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Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching

Danny Hillis, left, is a founder of Metaweb Technologies and Robert Cook is the executive vice president for product development.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 — A new company founded by a longtime technologist is setting out to create a vast public database intended to be read by computers rather than people, paving the way for a more automated Internet in which machines will routinely share information.

The company, Metaweb Technologies, is led by Danny Hillis, whose background includes a stint at Walt Disney Imagineering and who has long championed the idea of intelligent machines.

Tags: database, smenatic web, searching, automation, ai

Computer with AI Cited for Unlicensed Practice of Law

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:24:42 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Monday, 5 March 2007

AI Cited for Unlicensed Practice of Law

A web-based "expert system" that helped users prepare bankruptcy filings for a fee made too many decisions to be considered a clerical tool, an appeals court said last week, ruling that the software was effectively practicing law without a license.

At issue were two websites maintained by entrepreneur Henry Ihejirika -- Ziinet.com and 700law.com -- which offered automated bankruptcy assistance. That sounded good to consumer Jayson Reynoso, who paid $219 for 60 days of access to the "Ziinet Bankruptcy Engine," described on the websites like this:

Ziinet is an expert system and knows the law. Unlike most bankruptcy programs which are little more than customized word processors the Ziinet engine is an expert system. It knows bankruptcy laws right down to those applicable to the state in which you live. Now you no longer need to spend weeks studying bankruptcy laws.

Tags: ai, expert system, law, technology

Calls of the wild: More than 80,000 sound and video recordings of animals now available to public on

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:42:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Since mankind is killing off the animal kingdom, I suppose this will be a good archive to have in case we want to see nature sometime in the future.

Clip Source: www.news.cornell.edu

Calls of the wild: More than 80,000 sound and video recordings of animals now available to public online

For decades, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has shared the remarkable sounds of birds and other animals with the public through audio guides featuring recordings hand-picked from the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds' vast collection. Now anyone can explore the archive's holdings on his or her own. For the first time, more than 65,000 sound clips and some 18,000 video clips of birds and other animals are accessible for no charge at the Macaulay Library's Web site.

"We've long dreamed of swinging the doors to the archive open. Technology and dedicated work by our staff are, at last, making this a realization," said Greg Budney, acting director of the Macaulay Library. "That's important to our core mission in education and scientific research."

Tags: animal sounds, recoding, birds, wildlife, animals

Hitachi: Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:22:37 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Friday, 17 November 2006

Hitachi: Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011
Topic: Innovations

Hitachi's new neuroimaging technique allows its operator to switch a train set on and off by thought alone, and the Japanese company aims to commercialize it within five years.

Mind-machine interfacing isn't unheard of: just weeks ago, a young patient was given a chance to play Space Invaders through the power of thought. And this all comes hot on the heels of a revolution in microsurgery, allowing artificial limbs to be wired to the brain by reusing existing nerves.

The difference this time is that Hitachi's system doesn't invasively co-opt the nervous sytem, instead using a topographic modelling system to measure blood flow in the brain, translating the images into signals that are sent to the controller. So far, this new technique only allows for simple switching decisions, but Hitachi aims to commercialize it within five years for use by paralyzed patients and those undergoing "cognitive rehabilitation."

Model train controlled via brain-machine interface [Pink Tentacle]

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Tags: min-machine interface, brain, neurology, psychology, computer integration

Intel Does 3-D touch Holograms

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:12:08 GMT

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In a hospital in Houston, two surgeons appear to be performing a difficult procedure on a cardiac patient. In fact, only one of the doctors in the room is real. The other is a replica-a lifelike physical model whose shape, appearance and movements precisely mimic those of a specialist in Tokyo who is performing the actual work."

Clip Source: www.intel.com

Dynamic Physical Rendering Research at Intel

This scenario may seem like science fiction, but research required to realize it has already begun, in a collaborative research project between Carnegie Mellon University and Intel. The goal of the project, which Intel has labeled Dynamic Physical Rendering (DPR), is to create a new form of media the researchers call pario-Greek for "to bring forth" or "to make."

What the researchers propose to make are moving, physical, three-dimensional replicas of people or objects, so lifelike that human senses would accept them as real. This would eliminate the need for cumbersome virtual reality gear and overcome the viewing angle limitations of modern 3D approaches. The replicas would mimic the shape and appearance of a person or object being imaged in real time, and as the originals moved, so would their replicas. These 3D models would be physical entities, not holograms. You could touch them and interact with them, just as if the originals were in the room with you.

Tags: dynamic physical rendering, intel, holograms, visualization

Talk with George -- King of the chatbots

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:50:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Damn! He is smarter then the George in the Whitehouse.

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

King of the chatbots

September 25, 2006 10:58am

Article from: Agence France-Presse

George, who is 39, single and light-hearted, is looking for friends on the Internet.

He has gifts: the ability to speak in 40 languages and with 2000 people at the same time.

George is a piece of software, arguably the best of the speaking "chatbots" or talking robots, and he's recently received the Loebner prize in Britain, a scientific award recognising the machines best capable of matching the most realistic human dialogues with their own.

There's just one quirk: he doesn't really exist.

Tags: ai, george, chatbots, future technology

Experts Fear Future Will be Like Sci-Fi Movies

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:29:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Will be or already is happening?

Clip Source: slashdot.org

"In the year 2020, Luddite terrorists attack technology infrastructure and artificial intelligences dominate earth! Or at least that's what 700 experts predict in the latest poll conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project (pdf). Is the future really going to be like a science fiction movie? Ars Technica provides a humorous overview of the survey results. From the article: 'Are these scenarios really indicative of future trends? Given the prevalence of many of these concepts in science fiction content, it is obvious that the ideas themselves are at least relevant enough to warrant consideration. That said, the nature of the survey and the way that the scenarios are presented makes the entire thing seem less plausible. In looking at classic science fiction films of the past, from Blade Runner to Soylent Green, one realizes that few of them really predict with any accuracy the world we live in today. Culture and technology can change in radically unpredictable ways, and today's experts may lack the foresight to perceive the future with the clarity of Hari Seldon.'"

Experts Fear Future Will be Like Sci-Fi Movies

Tags: future, technology, predictions, sci-fi

BitTorrent Simulator: How and Why BitTorrent works

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 01:02:02 GMT

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Clip Source: torrentfreak.com

BitTorrent Simulator: How and Why BitTorrent works

BitTorrent is a great protocol to distribute large files. One of it’s main advantages is that every downloader starts sharing right away, even without having a full copy of the file.

Other key features of BitTorrent are:

Rarest piece first: sending the rarest piece first to ensure its availability in the swarm

Tit-for-tat sharing: what you give is what you get

The BitTorrent simulator is a nice graphical representation of how and why BitTorrent works.

via p2pblog

Tags: bit torrent, torrent simulators, swarm technology, swarms

via boing-boing: Web 2.0 in space? "Borg" PC posse designs NASA antennas

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:23:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Web 2.0 in space? "Borg" PC posse designs NASA antennas

NASA spokesperson John Bluck explains,

For the first time, objects 'evolved by computers' will be launched into space in March 2006, if all goes to plan. The objects are antennas mounted on three small NASA satellites.
Earlier, 80 personal computers, running artificial intelligence software, quickly 'evolved' the design of the small space antennas at NASA Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley.

Here's a snip from a NASA article about the project:

Like a friendly, non-biological form of the Borg Collective of science fiction fame, 80 personal computers, using artificial intelligence (AI), have combined their silicon brains to quickly design a tiny, advanced space antenna.
If all goes well, three of these computer-designed space antennas will begin their trip into space in March 2006, when an L-1011 aircraft will take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The airplane will drop a Pegasus XL rocket into the sky high above the Pacific Ocean. The rocket will ignite and carry three small Space Technology (ST5) satellites into orbit.
Each satellite will be equipped with a strange-looking, computer-designed space antenna. Although they resemble bent paperclips, the antennas are highly efficient, according to scientists.

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Tags: web20, antenna, borg, collective, ai