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IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat's Entire Brain
Cats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of working memory for the digital kitty mind.
11.20.2009 at 03:35pm - Comment by ChazZeromusNo that's very different, the matter used as a medium in the simulation is virtual in a physical sense. This is merely float point units stored in memory in binary conglomerates across complementary metal-oxide transistors that are implemented nowhere near biologically similar neurons, deductively if you could write out and perform the simulation in sand with a stick, the calculations would be performed in the same digital-to-information methodology as a processor.
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The Answer Man
In the early 1980s, after earning a doctorate in physics at age 20 and winning a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant at 21, Stephen Wolfram started thinking bigger. He wanted to build an artificial intelligence that would act like the world’s wisest statistician, capable of understanding, researching, and solving any numbers-related problem. So he surveyed the state of technology to see whether this might be possible. “I decided, no,” he recalls. “We were not there yet.”
11.20.2009 at 03:27pm - Comment by ChazZeromusYes, the idea of an artificial cognitive tool to manage content for the facilitation of a search engine would be a great idea, but the amount of textual data for the such an engine to exist would require, for whatever physical frontend used either a biologically engineered brain or a very fast computer, seemingly too much time and learning for the intelligence. My opinion, this individual is nothing more than just like us, nothing special, someone who simply is placed and and begins to look in a direction noone ever noticed. Not the genius in my mind, but the rather usual ostentation.
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Fastest Supercomputer in the World Models Dark Matter, HIV Family Tree Simultaneously
In November of last year, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory switched on Roadrunner, the world's fastest computer. IBM and the Department of Energy built the machine to model nuclear explosions, but two new studies, both released today, are proof that the computer's massive power has been at least as devoted to peaceful science as to simulating thermonuclear weapons.
11.12.2009 at 04:14pm - Comment by ChazZeromusThere are unifying theories, dark matter is one of those phenomenons considered ambiguous. Those who are interested in the way code can shape the thoughts of many ideas, and by those I mean people like me who think code is the most interesting approach to any mathematical or logical theological problem, the apologia for all programmers alike, it still hasn't completely failed anyone's expectation as to how powerful programming is to propagate such algorithms.
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Digital Rat Brain Spontaneously Develops Organized Neuron Patterns
Four years ago, a team of researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland switched on Blue Brain, a computer designed to mimic a functioning slice of a rat's brain. At first, the virtual neurons fired only when prodded by a simulated electrical current. But recently, that has changed. Apparently, the simulated neurons have begun spontaneously coordinating, and organizing themselves into a more complex pattern that resembles a wave. According to the scientists, this is the beginning of the self-organizing neurological patterns that eventually, in more complex mammal brains, become personality.
11.12.2009 at 04:04pm - Comment by ChazZeromusWell, there's no need to simulate the entire human brain once we discover the hidden architecture of thought, simply in terms of being abstract, there's no need to go this far to the molecular level. Though it helps, you're simply observing the nature of an overwhelming amount of data, and by studying the unique patterns of the mind and getting to island that is the manual of a human thought you could significantly create even more simplified neurological structure minus the unwieldy amount of hardware.
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Augmented Google Earth Gets Real-Time People, Cars, Clouds
Researchers from Georgia Tech have devised methods to take real-time, real-world information and layer it onto Google Earth, adding dynamic information to the previously sterile Googlescape. They use live video feeds (sometimes from many angles) to find the position and motion of various objects, which they then combine with behavioral simulations to produce real-time animations for Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth.
10.1.2009 at 02:57pm - Comment by ChazZeromusAn augmentation for Google Earth that aids in visualizing the life-like quality of modern civilization? Seems propitious to some, but more of a seldom quality taken by others; I'd rather see such an implementation in more promising technologies than a simple 3D mapping program; aside from my detestation I'd favor it now because Google Earth seems to be the only candidate.
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A Geek's Guide to Colleges
A. Find "Them"
University of California at Berkeley Where: Berkeley, Calif. Department: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) SETI@home taps the power of thousands of ordinary PCs over the Web to create, in effect, one of the most powerful supercomputers anywhere. It analyzes data from radio telescopes looking for signals from intelligent life. Berkeley students help improve the search algorithms and refine the software that ties all the computers together.2.25.2009 at 11:17pm - Comment by ChazZeromusI love video games, but I want to build a robot. Not in college but I'm a systems programmer and an engineer at electrical circuitry and a wiz at computer science. I just want to make giant robot, know any places that can let me do that? Some funds would be nice!
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Science Dweebs Often Virgins
Think back to your college years. Did you spend more time at the lab bench than at the bar? Was getting a date harder than organic chem? If you carried protection was it for your pocket? We thought so.
2.25.2009 at 11:10pm - Comment by ChazZeromusMakes me wonder about the people that conducted the research.
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Happiness is a Warm Electrode
In the middle of room #11 in the Cleveland Clinic's surgical center, Diane Hire lies on an operating table, the back half of her shaven head hidden behind a plastic curtain. Four pins, one driven into either side of her forehead, the other two in back, hold a titanium halo fast to her skull. An anesthesiologist, several nurses and her psychiatrist cluster around the bed.
Behind the curtain, neurosurgeon Ali R. Rezai surveys Hire's brain, white and snaked with thin red arteries, through a pair of small holes he's drilled in the top of her skull.
2.25.2009 at 11:08pm - Comment by ChazZeromusTruly an aggressive breakthrough. It was like a happy ending to that woman.
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