From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 08:26:27 PDT
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CRN endorses parts of Greenpeace
nanotech report
July 30, 2003
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The Center for Responsible
Nanotechnology (CRN) announced today
its conditional support of the
Greenpeace report, "Future
technologies, today's choices," on
the risks, benefits, and current
status of nanotechnology. "We have
to accept that some nanomaterials
and nanotechnologies may be...
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A veritable cognitive mind
July 28, 2003
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Marvin Minsky, MIT professor and
AI's founding father, says today's
artificial-intelligence methods are
fine for gluing together two or a
few knowledge domains but still miss
the "big" AI problem. He says the
missing element is something so big
that we can't see it: common sense.
In his...
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AI quest goes small-concept
July 28, 2003
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The Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency has poured hundreds
of millions into every aspect of
"big" artificial intelligence-expert
systems, with little tangible
return. Now DARPA plans to attack
the big-AI problem by providing its
own quantitative measures of
success. Part of that process...
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>From Uzbek to Klingon, the Machine
Cracks the Code
July 31, 2003
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Statistics-based
language-translation technology is
allowing scientists to crack scores
of languages in a fraction of the
time, and at a fraction of the cost
of traditional methods. Johns
Hopkins computer scientists hope to
have working translation systems for
as many as 100 languages within...
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Cyborg Liberation Front
July 30 - August 5, 2003
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The World Transhumanist Association
conference at Yale University in
late June brought together academics
and activists to lay the groundwork
for a society that would admit as
citizens and companions intelligent
robots, cyborgs made from a free
mixing of human and machine parts,
and fully organic,...
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Brain scans 'reveal baby thoughts'
July 29, 2003
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Researchers at Birkbeck College and
University College London are
attempting to answer questions on
baby brain development by monitoring
brain waves. Increased gamma-band
activity, which is associated with
the representation of hidden
objects, will "inform fundamental
issues about how infants...
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Inventions' wonderful world on
display at Microsoft fair
July 30, 2003
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Futuristic projects at Microsoft's
advanced-research division and
affiliates include a self-charging
robot slave that goes to meetings in
your place, a glove that translates
sign language into digitized
letters, a low-cost way for
motor-vehicle departments and
companies to create forgery-proof...
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I Think, Therefore I Communicate
July 30, 2003
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Researchers are working on
brain-computer interfaces to create
a direct link between computers and
the electrical signals in the brain
of "locked in" individuals so they
can operate devices like wheelchairs
or use simple word processing
programs to express their wishes.
Volunteers equipped with...
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