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Russia tests monkeys for Mars trip
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7341211.stm, posted 2008 by peter in environment msm russia science space
The macaques will be the first to experience the radiation that poses a big risk to astronauts - or Russian cosmonauts - on any flight to the Red Planet.
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He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html?ex=1365825600, posted 2008 by peter in ai business msm nlp science
But these are not conventional books, and it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. Mr. Parker has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject and turn the results into books.
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SwarmRobot.org
www.swarmrobot.org/, posted 2008 by peter in free hardware inspiration robotics science
The main goal of this project is to develop a cheap, reliable and swarm-capable micro-robot, that can be easily reproduced even at home.
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Jester 4.0: Jokes for Your Sense of Humor
eigentaste.berkeley.edu/user/index.php, posted 2008 by peter in ai humor science
Jester uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste to recommend jokes to you based on your ratings of previous jokes.
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Is Robot Evolution Mirroring the Evolution of Life?
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/is-robot-evolut.html, posted 2008 by peter in robotics science
I see a strong parallel between the evolution of robot intelligence and the biological intelligence that preceded it.
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Six Degrees of Autism
discovermagazine.com/photos/six-degrees-of-autism, posted 2008 by peter in autism health science
Researchers at Columbia University gathered clinical data from 1.5 million patients with 161 different diseases and put the findings together to explore commonalities.
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Does the Human Brain Possess Potential “Super Powers�
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/does-the-human.html, posted 2008 by peter in health science
However, some of the most incredible minds on Earth lack this ability to filter irrelevant facts, or perhaps it is more accurate to say that to a savant, the irrelevant IS relevant, and incredibly so.
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AI researchers think 'Rascals' can pass Turing test
www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206903246, posted 2008 by peter in ai science
RPI is aiming to pass AI's final exam this fall, by pairing the most powerful university-based supercomputing system in the world with a new multimedia group designing a holodeck, a la Star Trek.
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Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities Of A Child
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/100231.php, posted 2008 by peter in ai game multiplayer science
At a recent conference on artificial intelligence, the researchers unveiled the "embodiment" of their success to date: "Eddie," a 4-year-old child in Second Life who can reason about his own beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches human child
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Out of the Blue
www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/out_of_the_blue.php?page=all, posted 2008 by peter in ai science
The behavior of the computer replicates, with shocking precision, the cellular events unfolding inside a mind. "This is the first model of the brain that has been built from the bottom-up," says Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at Ecole Polytechnique Féd
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