Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Demis Hassabis – Combining systems neuroscience and machine learning: a new approach to AGI Neuroscience is rapidly teasing apart the functional roles of the brain’s components, and in some cases even the types of algorithms that they use. Machine learning, meanwhile, is producing a growing collection …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Brian Litt and Brain-Computer Interfaces: Past, Present and Future Brain-computer interfaces (aka Brain-Machine Interfaces or Neuroprosthetics), long of interest to science fiction writers and creative thinkers, became a government funded research discipline in the United States beginning in the 1970s. The vision of its architects at …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The topic of brain emulation will be discussed this weekend at the Singularity Summit. Ray Kurzweil: The Mind and How to Build One Brian Litt: The past, present and future of brain machine interfaces Demis Hassabis: Combining systems neuroscience and machine learning: a new approach to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The topic of brain emulation will be discussed this weekend at the Singularity Summit. Ray Kurzweil: The Mind and How to Build One Brian Litt: The past, present and future of brain machine interfaces Demis Hassabis: Combining systems neuroscience and machine learning: a new approach to …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software David Gelertner was writing about the concept of Lifestreams back in 1995 and 1996 and predicted the modern internet in the book Mirror Worlds in 1991. A lifestream is a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life; every document you …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Bio-based Society Speaker: Steen Riisgaard, Novozymes A/S Joined by: Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Steen Riisgaard- A lot of the worlds products is based upon cheap oil. We need to replace oil at its low price but without its high cost. Projection of $232 billion biofuel …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Should a new war break out, Israel is determined to strike a devastating blow more quickly than it did during the last conflict, in which it failed in its objective of destroying Hizballah. Israel has publicly warned that it would destroy Lebanese civilian infrastructure and that …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Terrafugia has released specifications and computer graphics of its next generation flying-car design. * automotive crash safety features * a touch-screen interface * improved wing design * folding mechanism can be activated from inside the vehicle Performance Max, Vh: 100 kts (115 mph, 185 km/h) Cruise, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There is a development project for using sound based generators that are over 18% efficient at converting heat to electricity. The target is to mass produce the units starting in 2012. * Target of 100-150 Watts electrical thermo-acoustic generator (stove, fridge, electricity) for £20 in 1 …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Focus fusion provides an update on progress on the eight goals of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Nuclear Fusion experiments. Milestone 1: Achieve pinch on FF1 machine This milestone was already achieved before the last milestone update in November 2009. Milestone 2: Achieve pinch at 25kV and 1MA, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Analysis of technological progress in China and India by Peilei Fan (UN study 2008) Matthew Yglesias at ThinkProgress wrote about China’s economy and indicates that he believes that almost all of China’s gains have come from shifting from low efficiency agriculture to high efficiency industry. Matthew …