ASIMO Demo at Disneyland’s Innoventions
ASIMO Demo at Disneyland’s Innovations Originally uploaded by JoeDuck. This was an impressive but simple demo of an amazing technological achievement. The locomotion was very realistic and impressive...
View ArticleBlue Brain Project – IBM has not withdrawn support.
The Blue Brain project represents the most promising effort to date to reverse engineer a human brain. In phase one of this project, completed last year, the team has modelled a rat neocortical column...
View ArticleSyNapse and Blue Brain Projects Update
As noted before I think the two most promising “Artificial Intelligence” projects are Blue Brain and DARPA SyNAPSE and I’m happy to see in this Boston blog “Neurdon” by some of the SyNAPSE project...
View ArticleArtificial Life created with Synthetic DNA – a major science milestone?
A team led by Dr Craig Venter has announced what is potentially a huge genetics engineering breakthrough – using synthetic DNA to drive the reproductive processes of cells. The team created a...
View ArticleBrain Chips from DARPA
Wired’s Danger Room is reporting on a new DARPA project to build brain implant chips that will fix brain injuries. The focus appears to have come from the large number of returning veterans who...
View ArticleComputer Consciousness – let the games begin!
Over at the Neurdon blog we’re following a great series about Artificial Intelligence “AI” in general and about developments in Darpa SyNAPSE, the best funded project to date that is working on a...
View ArticleThe Goldilocks Planets and SETI
Two extraordinary technology items this week are the identification of a new “goldilocks planet” named Kepler-22b. Kepler-22b may have attributes so similar to earth it could harbor life that is “like...
View ArticleEurope’s Human Brain Project – can a billion Euros buy a brain?
In January Henry Markram got a late Christmas present. After intense international competition, Markram’s quest for a brain simulation received one of the largest grants in the history of science –...
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