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Issue 9
June 24, 2010
This newsletter is for thinking people who has any interest in Artificial Intelligence
Welcome!
Three questions for Ray Kurzweil
Kurzweil, 62, is credited with groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence, optical character recognition, text-to-speech technology, reading machines for the blind, and electronic music synthesizers. Kurzweil, who lives in Newton, Mass., responded to three questions from The Chronicle about what these ideas could mean for the future of business, technology and humankind.
Counterinsurgency Training by ‘Virtual Human’
Using artificial intelligence and the graphics techniques behind “Avatar,” a USC institute creates “virtual humans” and interactive immersions that train American soldiers to win hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Who is Watson?
IBM creates computer that wants to play ‘Jeopardy!’ and that could be good
Robots Can Create Jobs, Too
Industrial robots can help companies compete by boosting quality and productivity. That's ultimately a benefit for American labor
Computer Intelligence Predicts Human Visual Attention for First
Time
Scientists have just come several steps closer to understanding change blindness -- the well studied failure of humans to detect seemingly obvious changes to scenes around them -- with new research that used a computer-based model to predict what types of changes people are more likely to notice.
Raytheon BBN Technologies Achieves Quantum Information Breakthrough
Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) BBN Technologies has achieved a major advance
in quantum information technology with the coupling of light and
superconductors.
Researchers create self-assembling nanodevices that
move and change shape on demand
By emulating nature’s design principles, a team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has created nanodevices made of DNA that self-assemble and can be programmed to move and change shape on demand. In contrast to existing nanotechnologies, these programmable nanodevices are highly suitable for medical applications because DNA is both biocompatible and biodegradable
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