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Marcus Maertens

Toward brain-like computing: New memristor better mimics synapses | University of Michi... - 3 views

news.umich.edu/mristor-better-mimics-synapses

science AI technology

shared by Marcus Maertens on 11 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 11 Jan 19
     
    And we get another step closer to neuromorphic computing
Eduardo Martin Moraud

Forecasting Brain Science and its impact on technology - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch

shared by Eduardo Martin Moraud on 19 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Eduardo Martin Moraud on 19 Oct 09
     
    For those sceptics about the use of neuroscience: A 20min talk (by a computer scientist!) about brain science and its use to build intelligent technology
  • Christos Ampatzis on 20 Oct 09
     
    so what does he sell? 22' without saying anything? Just "intelligence is prediction" - great but what are you gonna do mate?
  • Eduardo Martin Moraud on 20 Oct 09
     
    I do not think his intention is to sell anything... Just to make people (from a non neuroscience background) aware that brain science will have an impact on technology. Also: I am a firm believer in that "prediction"defines intelligence, as he states, and that making machines that behave in such a way is the way to go :) (the talk is from 2003 btw :p)
jcunha

New angry birds type game with cats and quantum mechanics - 6 views

phys.org/...uantum-cats-game-concepts.html

technology PHY quantum

shared by jcunha on 06 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • jcunha on 06 Oct 15
     
    "A new Angry Birds-style game is set to help launch a new understanding of quantum science. Some find the concepts of quantum science confusing or unintuitive. Einstein even called quantum effects "spooky." To help people better understand some of the core concepts of quantum science, the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo is launching a game - the Quantum Cats" Looking forward to see the ACT winning the Quantum Cats competition :)
Tom Gheysens

Computer searches web 24/7 to analyze images and teach itself common sense - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...131120111956.htm

computer web science technology AI

shared by Tom Gheysens on 21 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Tom Gheysens on 21 Nov 13
     
    Now this is a step in the right direction of the discussion we had in one of the wednesday meetings "thoughts of a biologist part 1" :)
Francesco Biscani

What Should We Teach New Software Developers? Why? | January 2010 | Communications of t... - 3 views

cacm.acm.org/...fulltext

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shared by Francesco Biscani on 15 Jan 10 - Cached
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  • Industry wants to rely on tried-and-true tools and techniques, but is also addicted to dreams of "silver bullets," "transformative breakthroughs," "killer apps," and so forth.
  • This leads to immense conservatism in the choice of basic tools (such as programming languages and operating systems) and a desire for monocultures (to minimize training and deployment costs).
  • The idea of software development as an assembly line manned by semi-skilled interchangeable workers is fundamentally flawed and wasteful.
  • Francesco Biscani on 15 Jan 10
     
    Nice opinion piece by the creator of C++ Bjarne Stroustrup. Substitute "industry" with "science" and many considerations still apply :)
  • Juxi Leitner on 18 Jan 10
     
    "for many, "programming" has become a strange combination of unprincipled hacking and invoking other people's libraries (with only the vaguest idea of what's going on). The notions of "maintenance" and "code quality" are typically forgotten or poorly understood. " ... seen so many of those students :( and ad "My suggestion is to define a structure of CS education based on a core plus specializations and application areas", I am not saying the austrian university system is good, but e.g. the CS degrees in Vienna are done like this, there is a core which is the same for everybody 4-5 semester, and then you specialise in e.g. software engineering or computational mgmt and so forth, and then after 2 semester you specialize again into one of I think 7 or 8 master degrees ... It does not make it easy for industry to hire people, as I have noticed, they sometimes really have no clue what the difference between Software Engineering is compared to Computational Intelligence, at least in HR :/
Luís F. Simões

Seminar: You and Your Research, Dr. Richard W. Hamming (March 7, 1986) - 10 views

www.chris-lott.org/...kaiser.html

science research Methods methodology Nobel Bell Labs Los Alamos

shared by Luís F. Simões on 07 Jan 11 - Cached
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  • This talk centered on Hamming's observations and research on the question "Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run?" From his more than forty years of experience, thirty of which were at Bell Laboratories, he has made a number of direct observations, asked very pointed questions of scientists about what, how, and why they did things, studied the lives of great scientists and great contributions, and has done introspection and studied theories of creativity. The talk is about what he has learned in terms of the properties of the individual scientists, their abilities, traits, working habits, attitudes, and philosophy.
  • Luís F. Simões on 07 Jan 11
     
    Here's the link related to one of the lunch time discussions. I recommend it to every single one of you. I promise it will be worth your time. If you're lazy, you have a summary here (good stuff also in the references, have a look at them):      Erren TC, Cullen P, Erren M, Bourne PE (2007) Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming. PLoS Comput Biol 3(10): e213.
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  • pacome delva on 11 Jan 11
     
    I'm also pretty sure that the ones who are remembered are not the ones who tried to be... so why all these rules !? I think it's bullshit...
  • Luís F. Simões on 11 Jan 11
     
    The seminar is not a manual on how to achieve fame, but rather an analysis on how others were able to perform very significant work. The two things are in some cases related, but the seminar's focus is on the second.
  • pacome delva on 12 Jan 11
     
    Then read a good book on the life of Copernic, it's the anti-manual of Hamming... he breaks all the rules !
  • LeopoldS on 12 Jan 11
     
    honestly I think that some of these rules actually make sense indeed ... but I am always curious to get a good book recommendation (which book of Copernic would you recommend?) btw Pacome: we are in Paris ... in case you have some time ...
  • pacome delva on 12 Jan 11
     
    I warmly recommend this book, a bit old but fascinating: The sleepwalkers from Arthur Koestler. It shows that progress in science is not straight and do not obey any rule... It is not as rational as most of people seem to believe today. http://www.amazon.com/Sleepwalkers-History-Changing-Universe-Compass/dp/0140192468/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294835558&sr=8-1 Otherwise yes I have some time ! my phone number: 0699428926 We live around Denfert-Rochereau and Montparnasse. We could go for a beer this evening ?
LeopoldS

The Army's Bold Plan to Turn Soldiers Into Telepaths | Machine-Brain Connections | DISC... - 0 views

discovermagazine.com/...n-turn-soldiers-into-telepaths

bio technology BMI

shared by LeopoldS on 25 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 25 Jul 11
     
    "The mind reader is Gerwin Schalk, a 39-year-old biomedical scientist and a leading expert on brain-computer interfaces at the New York State Department of Health's Wads­worth Center at Albany Medical College. The 28Austrian-born Schalk, along with a handful of other researchers, is part of a $6.3 million U.S. Army project to establish the basic science required to build a thought helmet-a device that can detect and transmit the unspoken speech of soldiers, allowing them to communicate with one another silently." ...
  • Ma Ru on 01 Aug 11
Luís F. Simões

When Astronomy Met Computer Science | Cosmology | DISCOVER Magazine - 1 views

discovermagazine.com/...astronomy-met-computer-science

astronomy INF data mining

shared by Luís F. Simões on 25 Jul 11 - No Cached
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  • “That’s impossible!” he told Borne. “Don’t you realize that the entire data set NASA has collected over the past 45 years is one terabyte?”
  • The LSST, producing 30 terabytes of data nightly, will become the centerpiece of what some experts have dubbed the age of peta­scale astronomy—that’s 1015 bits (what Borne jokingly calls “a tonabytes”).
  • A major sky survey might detect millions or even billions of objects, and for each object we might measure thousands of attributes in a thousand dimensions. You can get a data-mining package off the shelf, but if you want to deal with a billion data vectors in a thousand dimensions, you’re out of luck even if you own the world’s biggest supercomputer. The challenge is to develop a new scientific methodology for the 21st century.”
  • LeopoldS on 25 Jul 11
     
    Francesco please look at this and get back wrt to the /. question .... thanks
ESA ACT

Extension of Human Senses - A NASA Division! - 0 views

ic.arc.nasa.gov/...ehs.html

BMI neurophysiology AI NASA

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    NEURO-ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES DIVISION NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER
nikolas smyrlakis

Logicomix: an epic search for truth - 1 views

www.independent.co.uk/...tional-bestseller-1801683.html

maths comic bertrand_russel

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Nov 09 - No Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Nov 09
     
    an interesting comic about maths, ideas etc. Co-written by a greek mathematician / writer and a Berkeley computer science professor, sold out in Greece and since its international release a couple of months ago is occupying the top selling comics lists of Amazon etc. also: http://www.logicomix.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=53
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Nov 09
     
    btw I just ordered it from Amazon, so if you want after I finish it I can lend it
Ma Ru

The human Turing machine: a neural framework for mental programs - 2 views

www.cell.com/...S1364-6613%2811%2900088-X

bio inf science computing AI

shared by Ma Ru on 24 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 24 Jun 11
     
    From the alternative computing series...
Nina Nadine Ridder

Quantum computer around the corner after Australian scientists make key breakthrough - 1 views

www.abc.net.au/...s4325962.htm

technology quantum_computing science

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  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 07 Oct 15
     
    Australian scientists have cleared one of the final hurdles for designing and building a quantum computer. The team of engineers from the University of New South Wales has successfully built a core component needed for the computer to operate and the work is published today in the journal Nature.
Juxi Leitner

Real-Life Cyborg Astrobiologists to Search for Signs of Life on Future Mars Missions - 0 views

www.dailygalaxy.com/...e-on-future-mars-missions.html

technology novelty detection inf science

shared by Juxi Leitner on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
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  • EuroGeo team developed a wearable-computer platform for testing computer-vision exploration algorithms in real-time at geological or astrobiological field sites, focusing on the concept of "uncommon mapping"  in order to identify contrasting areas in an image of a planetary surface. Recently, the system was made more ergonomic and easy to use by porting the system into a phone-cam platform connected to a remote server.
  • a second computer-vision exploration algorithm using a  neural network in order to remember aspects of previous images and to perform novelty detection
  • Juxi Leitner on 03 Nov 09
     
    well a bit misleading title...
ESA ACT

Towards Physarum Robots: Computing and Manipulating on Water Surface - 0 views

www.sciencedirect.com/science

paper bio robotics

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Behavioural analysis of computation capabilities of amoeba.
Francesco Biscani

NASA Nebula, Cloud Computing In a Container - 0 views

science.slashdot.org/...Cloud-Computing-In-a-Container

INF

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  • Francesco Biscani on 03 Dec 09
     
    Open-source cloud computing platform from NASA... Nice!
Tom Gheysens

Computing with silicon neurons: Scientists use artificial nerve cells to classify diffe... - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...140128094539.htm

BIO science technology

shared by Tom Gheysens on 29 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Tom Gheysens on 29 Jan 14
     
    Scientists in Germany are using artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data. These silicon 'neurons' could recognize handwritten numbers, or distinguish plant species based on their flowers.
johannessimon81

Crowdsourced game to study synthetic RNA for nano-machinery - 0 views

arstechnica.com/...eat-computers-in-designing-rna

science

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  • johannessimon81 on 04 Mar 14
     
    Pretty cool - and pretty addictive to play :-D
LeopoldS

A Biological Solution to a Fundamental Distributed Computing Problem | Science/AAAS - 3 views

www.sciencemag.org/...183.abstract

BIO science

shared by LeopoldS on 18 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 18 Jan 11
     
    .... sounds interesting
Luís F. Simões

New algorithm offers ability to influence systems such as living cells or social networks - 3 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110512104220.htm

control complex_networks complex networks

shared by Luís F. Simões on 13 May 11 - No Cached
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  • a new computational model that can analyze any type of complex network -- biological, social or electronic -- and reveal the critical points that can be used to control the entire system.
  • Slotine and his colleagues applied traditional control theory to these recent advances, devising a new model for controlling complex, self-assembling networks.
  • Yang-Yu Liu, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Albert-László Barabási. Controllability of complex networks. Nature, 2011; 473 (7346): 167 DOI: 10.1038/nature10011
  • LeopoldS on 14 May 11
     
    Sounds too super to be true, no?
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  • LeopoldS on 15 May 11
     
    cover story in the May 12 issue of Nature
  • LeopoldS on 15 May 11
     
    For each, they calculated the percentage of points that need to be controlled in order to gain control of the entire system.
  • LeopoldS on 16 May 11
  • Ma Ru on 17 May 11
     
    > Sounds too super to be true, no? Yeah, how else may it sound, being a combination of hi-quality (I assume) research targeted at attracting funding, raised to the power of Science Daily's pop-pseudo-scientific journalists' bu****it? Original article starts with a cool sentence too: > The ultimate proof of our understanding of natural or technological systems is reflected in our ability to control them. ...a good starting point for a never-ending philosophers' debate... Now seriously, because of a big name behind the study, I'm very curious to read the original article. Although I expect the conclusion to be that in practical cases (i.e. the cases of "networks" you *would like to* "control"), you need to control all nodes or something equally impractical...
  • LeopoldS on 18 May 11
     
    then I am looking forward to reading your conclusions here after you will have actually read the paper
nikolas smyrlakis

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Bridging the gap to quantum world - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8081058.stm

bridging quantum computing atoms

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 05 Jun 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 05 Jun 09
     
    A "spooky" quantum effect is seen in a mechanical system for the first time.
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