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See on Scoop.it – Knowmads, Infocology of the future Google, in partnership with NASA and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), has launched an initiative to investigate how quantum computing might lead to breakthroughs in machine learning, a branch of AI that focuses on construction and study of systems that learn from data.. The new lab […] - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – Cyborg Lives IN “SKYFALL”, the latest James Bond movie, 007 is given a gun that only he can fire. It works by recognising his palm print, rendering it impotent when it falls into a baddy’s hands. Like many of Q’s more fanciful inventions, the fiction is easier to conjure up than the […] - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – Cyborg Lives When people create and modify their virtual reality avatars, the hardships faced by their alter egos can influence how they perceive virtual environments, according to researchers presenting their findings at 2013 Annual Conference on Human Factors… - When people create and modify their virtual reality avatars, the hardships faced […] - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – Cyborg Lives Haworth and Obscura Digital’s digital whiteboard can hold 160 acres of virtual space- Apple (AAPL) has rolled out smaller models of its iPad. Jeff Reuschel is thinking bigger. The global design director for office-furniture maker Haworth, in partnership with interactive display company Obscura Digital, has created a touchscreen that […] - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – Cyborg Lives Twitter, Facebook, Google… we know the internet is driving us to distraction. But could sitting at your computer actually calm you down? Oliver Burkeman investigates the slow web movement - Back in the summer of 2008 – a long time ago, in internet terms, two years before Instagram, and around […] - Jamreilly

Your data is your interface (via Pando Daily) By Jarno Mikael Koponen On April 17, 2013We all view the world differently and on our own terms. Each of us use different words to describe the same book, movie, favorite food, person, work of art, or news article. We express our uniqueness by reviewing, tagging, commenting, [...] - Jamreilly

Igor Nikolic graduated in 2009 on his dissertation: co-evolutionary process for modelling large scale socio-technical systems evolution. He received his MSc as a chemical– and bioprocess engineer at the Delft University of Technology. He spent several years as an environmental researcher and consultant at University of Leiden where he worked on life cycle analysis and [...] - Jamreilly

Seth Llyod is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT. His talk, “Programming the Universe”, is about the computational power of atoms, electrons, and elementary particles. - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – Philosophy everywhere everywhen How our modular brains lead us to deny and distort evidence - If you have pondered how intelligent and educated people can, in the face of overwhelming contradictory evidence, believe that evolution is a myth, that global warming is a hoax, that vaccines cause autism and asthma, that [...] - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – Cyborg Lives Today, January 8, is Hawking’s birthday, yet on this day it’s worth examining just who and what we are really celebrating: the man, the mind, or … the machines? - Traditionally, assistants execute what the head directs or has thought of beforehand. But Hawking’s assistants – human and machine [...] - Jamreilly

In the main hall of the hands-on science exhibits at the Cape Town Science Center in South Africa, a lifeless, tattered globe stands under naked fluorescent bulbs, all but ignored by children passing through on school tours. Across a sunblasted courtyard and up a dingy staircase, another globe — a digital globe — stands in [...] - Jamreilly

3D Systems, the industrial 3-D printing giant, is expanding its desktop line of printers with the oversized, multicolor-printing CubeX printers. The printers, announced today at CES, promise an oversized print platform that can output objects up to 10.8″ x 10.45″ x 9.5″, more than twice the build volume of printers from other manufacturers such as [...] - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – Knowmads, Infocology of the future It’s hard to get straightforward health guidance from personal genome tests, which are banned in some places. But one way to make them more meaningful is to let more people buy them. - It was easy to send my spit to 23andMe, a personal genetics company [...] - Jamreilly

If you struggle with editing videos, then an app called Magisto might be just what you’re looking for. Available for iOS and Android as well as on the web, the app takes your videos and edits them automatically, creating high-quality movies you can then turn around and share with friends or family, or upload to [...] - Jamreilly

PaperTab: Revolutionary paper tablet reveals future tablets to be thin and flexible as paper. (by humanmedialab) (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – Knowmads, Infocology of the future Scientists at Harvard have pioneered a breakthrough technique that can reproduce an individual’s entire genome from a single cell. “If you give us a single human cell, we report to you 93 percent of the genome that contains three billion base pairs, and if there is [...] - Jamreilly

Tissue engineering research at MIT is now largely focused on creating tissue that can be used in the lab to model human disease and test potential new drugs. MIT professor Sangeeta Bhatia recently developed the first stem-cell-derived liver tissue model that can be infected with the hepatitis C virus. She has also designed thin slices [...] - Jamreilly

The making of a synthetic brain requires now little more Than Time and labor… . such a machine might be used in The distant future … To explore regions of intellectual subtlety and complexity at present beyond The human powers… . how will it end? I suggest That The simplest way To find out is [...] - Jamreilly

What is cognition? Basically, it is a group of mental processes. Cognition requires: Perception Attention Anticipation Reasoning Learning Inner Speech Imagination Memory Emotions Planning Pain and Pleasure Most cognitive scientists view cognition as something that is computational. Cognition = Computational System By computational system they mean a system that manipulates symbols, in the sense that [...] - Jamreilly

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)  (via fast-t-feasts) - Jamreilly

WHAT do you get when you cross a fragrance with an actor? Answer: a smell Gibson. Groan away, but you should know that this joke was written by a computer. “Smell Gibson” is the C.P.U. child of something called Standup (for System to Augment Non-Speakers’ Dialogue Using Puns), a program that generates punning riddles to [...] - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – Philosophy everywhere everywhen Expanding our ethical care to include all of humanity is a nice idea, but it involves a misunderstanding of the source of our empathy: emotions. Now that the year-end holidays have passed, so have the barrage of entreaties to nurture a sense of “good will to all mankind,” [...] - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – Knowmads, Infocology of the future Mobile and social media are driving the next wave of digital change. But is this creating new dilemmas for the way we live and work? It used to be the case that British people had a reputation for buttoned-up restraint. Today we are some of the [...] - Jamreilly

Much has been made of our ancestors “coming down out of the trees,” and many researchers view terrestrial bipedalism as the hallmark of “humanness.” After all, most of our living primate relatives — the great apes, specifically — still spend their time in the trees. Humans are the only member of the family devoted to [...] - Jamreilly

See on Scoop.it – The future of medicine and health HOW can people prepare to have the conversation about what matters most in life and HOW can they prepare for medical decision making? A new, interactive, easy-to-use, advance care planning website called PREPARE can help. See on geripal.org - Jamreilly

Researchers in Japan have come up with a storage solution to keep your most important data with a method that seems to be drawn directly from the pages of Superman. Everyone who has gone through the process of upgrading their computer system knows the inevitable task of transferring data involves a certain amount of acceptance [...] - Jamreilly

NAO Next Gen : the new robot of Aldebaran Robotics (by AldebaranRobotics) (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - Jamreilly

The Eve 1138 Android – Sensual Cyborg / Robot 3D Photorealistic Animation HD (by MacMave) (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) - Jamreilly

In a world of proliferating professions, S. Matthew Liao has a singular title: neuroethicist. Dr. Liao, 40, the director of the bioethics program at New York University, deploys the tools of philosophy, history, psychology, religion and ethics to understand the impact of neuroscientific breakthroughs. Define neuroethics. It’s a kind of subspecialty of bioethics. Until very [...] - Jamreilly

We are seeing a vast increase in the variety of kinds of activities and information available to individuals. This does not just facilitate human freedom, it effectively is human freedom in the sense of there being an increasing variety of possible states of human experience and actions. But on the other hand, constraints are introduced [...] - Jamreilly