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Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL
Talkback With this approach one is searching for a solution, but is not tied to the biological model. First there are researchers with the “mechanism” mindset that use biological models as the foundation for their work in AI.
[April 3, 2006, 16:54]
Physicist remakes universe in computer's image
News Understanding the algorithms and rules that govern the formation of biological tissue could vastly improve transplants and medicine. What I think is going to be possible is to have computational models of biological cells in which all the possible...
[November 21, 2002, 7:34]
NS Biorhythm
Downloads These inherent rhythms are said to control or initiate various biological processes and are classically composed of three cyclic rhythms that are said to govern human behavior and demonstrate innate periodicity in natural physiological change: the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Detecting Danger: Applying a Novel Immunological Concept to Intrusion Detection Systems
White Papers Computer scientists have recently drawn inspiration from mechanisms found in biological systems and, in the context of computer security, have focused on the Human Immune System (HIS). The human immune system provides an example of a robust...
[June 24, 2009, 16:01]
Can a human love a robot?
News It is not appropriate to think of robots as being tied up with human biological heritage, as we're not aiming to put things that matter in robots," he says. The hypothetical nature of sentience debates leads experts such as Dr Murray Shanahan...
[January 23, 2001, 14:01]
Research: Mobiles potentially harmful to human cells
News Professor Jose Luis Sebastian, who led the researchers, explained that in order to understand the mechanisms that underlie the biological effects caused by electromagnetic radiation it is essential to consider the combined effects of shape and...
[December 11, 2000, 11:19]
Joy warns of tech Armageddon
News Joy quotes from a passage of Kaczynski's Unabomber "Manifesto", which posits a scenario where computers become sufficiently sophisticated to make their own decisions, and where any human control over the systems devolves to a "tiny elite" who will...
[March 14, 2000, 10:03]
UK government launches artificial intelligence drive
News The government said on Tuesday that the pilot project would examine how work on artificial intelligence could benefit from our knowledge of neuroscience -- the study of the human nervous system and the brain, which examines the biological basis of...
[April 30, 2002, 17:40]
Computer and Web Technology crucial to scientific breakthrough
News A creature's genome -- all its DNA, including genes -- is the biological recipe for what makes it what it is. Apart from identical twins, a human's genome is unique to the individual. To have a better understanding of how an animal is built we can...
[December 11, 1998, 16:33]
Hawking warns of AI world takeover
News The best-selling author of A Brief History of Time says "we should follow this road [of genetic engineering] if we want biological systems to remain superior to electronic ones. In an interview published on Saturday by the German magazine Focus...
[September 3, 2001, 12:10]
IBM plans self-healing computers
News But there are some differences between IBM's plan and actual biological systems. IBM didn't base the project's name on Eliza, a storied pre-PC program that performed psuedo-psychoanalysis on users, but to another biological system.
[April 27, 2001, 10:11]
Terahertz camera takes snapshot of the future
News Detecting explosives or biological agents in parcels, cancers beneath the skin, the state of wounds beneath dressings, and seeing through fog: all have been suggested by StarTiger and other researchers.
[February 11, 2003, 13:35]
Robot scientist makes gene discovery
News Adam is a still a prototype, but King's team — which is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, among others — believes another robot, Eve, holds promise for scientists searching for new drugs to combat diseases such...
[April 3, 2009, 16:55]
Government to investigate mobile phone safety
News However, that inquiry warned that there was "the risk of a risk", and indicated that exposure to mobile phones and handsets could result in subtle biological changes. A total of 15 research programmes, which will involve human volunteers, were...
[January 25, 2002, 13:26]
Artificial Intelligence: The edge of research and beyond
News Each biological neuron sprouts synaptic links to thousands of other neurons, while each Web page branches into dozens of hyperlinks. The human brain has about 100 times that number—but brains are not doubling in size every few years.
[March 29, 2006, 18:40]
Organic robot mixes rat brain with silicon
News High speed cameras and voltage-sensitive dyes, in conjunction with laser-scanning microscopes, return information that the team hope will show evidence for growth and learning patterns in biological systems.
[June 13, 2003, 16:19]
US scientists build brainy leech computer
News And the thinking behind the biological computer is relatively simple. The enormous capacity and availability of organic computing -- "it's relatively easy to grow cells," explained Ditto -- means biological machines will eventually replace silicon...
[June 7, 1999, 12:22]
CIA looks online for WMDs
News The CIA is especially interested in hearing from anyone that knows the "location of stocks of recently made chemical or biological weapons munitions. The location of chemical or biological laboratories.
[February 13, 2004, 16:55]
Infectious Diseases -- MobiReader Version
Downloads TB, Leprosy, Lymphadenopathy, Biological/ Chemical Weapons/ Terrorism agents, meningitis/ encephalitis, osteomyelitis, skin infections, fevers, sepsis, antibiotic use, common skin infections, tick bites, animal bites, wounds.Features: Edited by a...
[October 16, 2005, 8:00]
'Cyborgs' to converge in London
News Technology experts and enthusiasts who unflinchingly refer to themselves as "cyborgs" will gather at City University Saturday to discuss how technology can help overcome humankind's biological limitations.
[July 14, 2000, 9:41]
