Unifying Probabilistic and Rules Based Approaches AI

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software The probabilistic approach to artifical intelligence has been responsible for most of the recent progress in artificial intelligence, such as voice recognition systems, or the system that recommends movies to Netflix subscribers. But Noah Goodman, an MIT research scientist whose department is Brain and Cognitive Sciences but …

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University of Surrey as Developed a Nanosatellite Cubesail Solar Sail to Clear Orbital Junk

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Scientists at the University of Surrey, working on a project funded by the European space company Astrium, have devised a 3 kg miniature satellite or “nanosatellite” fitted with a “solar sail”. “CubeSail” is a device which can be fitted to satellites or launch vehicle upper stages that …

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Superconductivity in just four Pairs of Molecules

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software This image shows the smallest superconductor, which is only .87 nanometer wide. Via Eurekalert Ohio University – Scientists discover world’s smallest superconductor Scientists have discovered the world’s smallest superconductor, a sheet of four pairs of molecules less than one nanometer wide. The Ohio University-led study, published Sunday …

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Diamond Nanowire Emits One Photon at a Time

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Nature Nanotechnology – A diamond nanowire single-photon source Nanowire devices are pumped an order of magnitude more efficiently than bulk devices and allow for an order of magnitude higher single-photon flux. The development of a robust light source that emits one photon at a time will allow …

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South Korean Navy Ship Now Believed to Have Hit An Old Korean War Era Mine

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software A mine dating back to the 1950-53 Korean War might have been responsible for the sinking of a South Korean naval patrol ship last weekend, according to the country’s defence minister. His explanation came as hopes of finding 46 missing South Korean alive faded further after navy …

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Carnival of Space 147 – update on black hole starship, fusion powered space planes and more

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software Carnival of Space 147 is up at Weird Sciences This site provided an article about how an earth orbiting superconducting array could concentrate and trap antimatter at a cost 100,000 times better than current ground based systems This site also provided an artible about using near term …

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Proposal for an all-spin logic device with built-in memory

Nature Nanotechnology – Proposal for an all-spin logic device with built-in memory A spintronic device in which the input, output and internal states are all represented by spin, and that shows the five essential characteristics necessary for logic applications, is proposed. The possible use of spin rather than charge as a state variable in devices …

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Twenty Thousand Nanowires Enable piezoelectric nanogenerators Provide 1.2 Volts and 2.7 Milliwatts From Harvested Mechanical Energy

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what are believed to be the first self-powered nanometer-scale sensing devices that draw power from the conversion of mechanical energy. The new devices can measure the pH of liquids or …

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Medical Center in Israel Has Breakthrough for Mass Production of Embryonic Stem Cells

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A new technology developed at Hadassah University Medical Center has made it possible to produce large amounts of human embryonic stem cells for industry and research by growing them in suspension. Instead of being grown on beds in one layer, the embryonic stem cells could be cultivated …

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Science Fiction Displays Now Real – Navigation Super High Resolution Images and Rollup Displays

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software HP and Arizona state university have Demonstrated flexible displays that can be rolled up This should be on the market in 2012 and in mass production in 2013. The flexible displays can be mass produced by using a production method called Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography (SAIL). By manufacturing …

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Technology For 2010-2020 – Ramping to a Later Technological Singularity

J Storrs Hall looks at what the Singularity look like with just nanotech (full out molecular nanotechnology) and narrow AI? * Life Extension via molecular nanotech * human level AI * nanofactories enable the entire physical economy over into a Moore’s Law-like growth mode, eradicating hunger and poverty in a decade or two. * Flying …

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