Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Wired reports that robots of the future will be capable of learning more complex behaviours than ever before if a new, pan-European research project succeeds in its goal of developing the world’s first architecture for advanced robotic motor skills. If successful, the four-year AMARSi (Adaptive Modular Architecture …
Blomoberg reports – President Barack Obama, acting on a pledge to support nuclear power, will propose tripling loan guarantees for new reactors to more than $54 billion, two people familiar with the plan said. This is expected to be in the 2011 budget. If passed and the loans made promptly this should ensure that there …
Michael is reviewing development in AI up to this point. A lot of big developments in AI in the 2000’s and in the last few months. Discusses the use of AI by corporations and military and others. Provides another perspective on Hod Lipson’s work. Reviewing the mainstream recognition of AI Wired talked about Eureqa – …
At the Bishop Hill blog there is a summary of the key emails and data hacked from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) – a leading climate research facility It shows made biased and overly alarmist presentations of the climate data and worked to suppress the work of scientists who disagreed with …
An analysis showed that low cost materials are needed to scal solar power and Pyrite (FeS2) is a leading candidate. Solar photovoltaics have great promise for a low-carbon future but remain expensive relative to other technologies. Greatly increased penetration of photovoltaics into global energy markets requires an expansion in attention from designs of high-performance to …
Here is an interview with Dr. Itamar Arel interview by Sander Olson. Dr. Arel runs the Machine Intelligence Lab at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Arel believes that “baby” AIs are possible within 3 years and computers with human-level intelligence are feasible within ten. Dr. Arel is further convinced that the individual components necessary for …
Nesscap Inc., a South Korean-based ultracapacitor manufacturing and power storage solutions company, announced today that it has closed a bridge financing round in the amount of $9 million. Nesscap ultracapacitor information * High energy density (2.7V 5000F Prismatic : 5.8Wh/kg, 7.1Wh/l) Which is not that special. Experimental electric double-layer capacitors from the MIT LEES project …
Scientists in Bell Labs, the Alcatel’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). This transmission experiment involved sending the equivalent of 400 DVDs per second over 7,000 kilometers, roughly the distance between Paris and Chicago. This is the highest …
About two years ago, I was speculating about the never ending but rapidly progressing process of humanity gaining control (mastery) of information, light, energy, magnetism, and matter. (ILEMM control) I would also add another L for life referring to synthetic life, genomic, protenomics, epigenomics and control of stem cells and other cells. So ILLEMM control. …