eSwarm — the art of the talk!

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Dancing Singularity

An old Zen monk came upon a mountain shrine one particularly cold night and discovered the shrine keeper shivering beside a dying fire.
The monk snatched a wooden Buddha from the mantle and tossed it into the flames.
The shrine keeper gasped with horror as the wooden statue burst into flames. So the monk began [...]

nanoscience pushing back frontiers of medicine — discovers cancer softness

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Nano breakthrough in cancer detection: study
Rawstory
“A nano-scale tool that distinguishes soft cancerous cells from stiffer normal ones could save lives by making it easier to diagnose cancer, according to a study released Sunday.
“Using atomic force microscopes, a team of US scientists showed for the first time that the surface of living cancer cells [...]

swarm intelligence — solutions distributing themselves — nothing seems more powerful against time

Honeybees, Maine. 2007. Photo by Peter Essick
National Geographic Photo of the Day
“Swarming honeybees, like these on Maine’s Appledore Island, frequently differ about where to establish a new nest. But the group usually chooses the best site. Bees reach this decision by gathering information, conducting independent evaluations, and holding a kind of vote. [...]

CMU gets $14.4 million to improve robo-tanks — is SIAI’s laudable quest to contain AI to “friendly AI” becoming a fool’s errand?

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Carnegie Mellon gets $14.4 million to build robo-tank
Layer 8  Network World
“Unmanned aircraft are showing up in the skies more often and today the US Army awarded $14.4 million to Carnegie Mellon to build a remote-controlled unmanned tank./”A certain amount of the award will go toward significantly improving the Crusher, a 6.5-ton unmanned support vehicle Carnegie [...]

DARPA CALO — AI learns to detect intention

detecting intention in basketball
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Software That Learns From Users
Nomi Ali
” . . . University of Washington computer science professor Pedro Domingos is developing CALO, a massive, four-year-old artificial intelligence project to help computers understand human intentions. The DARPA-funded project involves researchers from 25 universities and corporations focusing on many areas of artificial intelligence, including machine learning, [...]

if you build it, they may come — Widgetbox introduces AI widget for your website

Widgetbox introduces M.A.I.D. Artificial Intelligence System widget
“No one to talk to right now? Why not communicate with the M.A.I.D. - a live Artificial Intelligence System. Don’t worry about your conversation - it’s just between you and a computer!”
Widgetbox “… enables people to find web widgets across a variety of categories and interests [...]

artificial intelligence advancing science in the global war on AIDS

 Child at vigil for AIDS victims in Ngwenya, Swaziland. Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters
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Researchers Discover Potential Targets for HIV Vaccines
GEN News Highlights
“An essential component of the HIV-1 molecular machinery responsible for infecting cells, the third variable loop (V3), consists of functionally specialized layers, according to investigators at the University of California San Diego Antiviral Research Center.
“The surface [...]

Laboratory for Neuroinformatics — launched by Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept. and General Motors R & D Center

neuroinformatic mapping
GM, Virginia Tech Collaborate to Advance Neuroinformatics
HPC wire
“… Advances in sensing technologies have made exquisite measurements of brain activity possible in the past decade. Using these measurements, computer scientists will now help neuroscientists discover the complex neuronal networks in the brain that result in the actions we take for granted, like reaching for a [...]

if you build it, they may come — artificially intelligent teachers? … a world of students await their teachers

Peruvian students
$1 million grant brings artificial intelligence to schools
Machines like us — Science News
“Imagine a writing teacher being able to assign 24 essays a year to each student in her class — and not having to worry about grading a single one. That’s the promise of a new computer-based writing program that will be rolled [...]