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Cognitive computing: Building a machine that can learn from experience

Cognitive computing: Building a machine that can learn from experience

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Suppose you want to build a computer that operates like the brain of a mammal. How hard could it be? After all, there are supercomputers that can decode the human genome, play chess and calculate ...





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Expert: AI computers by 2020

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 17, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

A U.S. computer expert predicts computers will have the same intellectual capacity as humans by 2020.


In search of machines that play at being human

In search of machines that play at being human

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at Carlos III University (Spain) have taken part in an international contest whose objective is to improve artificial intelligence utilized in virtual worlds. The challenge for the participants ...


Energy drinks work -- in mysterious ways

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Runners clutching bottles of energy drink are a common sight, and it has long been known that sugary drinks and sweets can significantly improve athletes' performance in endurance events. The question is how?


'Now you see it, now you don't'

'Now you see it, now you don't'

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Queen Mary scientists have, for the first time, used computer artificial intelligence to create previously unseen types of pictures to explore the abilities of the human visual system.


Mind over body: new hope for quadriplegics

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Around 2.5 million people worldwide are wheelchair bound because of spinal injuries. Half of them are quadriplegic, paralysed from the neck down. European researchers are now offering them new hope thanks to groundbreaking ...


Technology to Treat Blindness Earns Award

Technology to Treat Blindness Earns Award

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research performed at Caltech as part of a collaborative U.S. Department of Energy-funded artificial-retina project designed to restore sight to the blind has received one of R&D Magazine's 2009 R&D 100 Awards. ...


Face recognition: the eyes have it

Biology / Other

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Our brain extracts important information for face recognition principally from the eyes, and secondly from the mouth and nose, according to a new study from a researcher at the University of Barcelona. This result, published ...


Free will takes flight: how our brains respond to an approaching menace

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 23, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Wellcome Trust scientists have identified for the first time how our brain's response changes the closer a threat gets. Using a "Pac Man"-like computer game where a volunteer is pursued by an artificial predator, the researchers ...


Scientists create working artificial nerve networks

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 7

Scientists have already hooked brains directly to computers by means of metal electrodes, in the hope of both measuring what goes on inside the brain and eventually healing conditions such as blindness or epilepsy. In the ...


Formerly conjoined twins in stable condition (AP)

Formerly conjoined twins in stable condition

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain ...



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