Two scientist are able to identify a sound that an object makes specifially when it collides into something else. This article identifies the sounds and introduces the two nobel-prise wimming acientists work.

Are intelligence and pattern recognition the same thing? Do they go hand in hand? Or are the two completely unrelated? This article discusses the possibility of programs to either be intelligent or simply able to recognize a pattern.

This article explores our useage/dependance on technology. Could this be the machine/device that, in human history, we have been most attached to, most intimate with. A video comments and explores our intimate dependance of technology to connect us with the world.

This article describes a quitbit. It juxtaposes the new quantum computer with its quibits to the current ones we have now that une the simple bit and byte mode of operation. Basically a quibit is a much more deeply complex for of the 0 and 1, yes and no unit that computers use traditionally.

Researching is being done to exime just how different a "genius" brain is, compared to a normal brain. This article discusses the finding when digging through tissue in Einstein's brain.

Mrs. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin blazed her own trail in the Harvard School of Astrology in the early 1900's. She, and a group of other women known as the "computers." They worked hard to make a name for themselves, and make a name they did. These women, in particular, were some of the first to blaze new trails at the university.

Meet Watson, the new medical "miracle" machine. In an understaffed hospital this machine is being used to monitor and treat patients around the clock. It is interactive and meet the medical needs of patients based on their age. An interesting piece of machinery, that's for sure.

In this article we discuss the "intelligence" of the machine. They are able to do just about anything we ask of them these days, but are they actually able to "think" and "feel?" This article delves in to try and reason whether or not this phenominon is possible in the real world.

In this article four mathematicle "fanatics" as one might tend to call them sit down to discuss thier mathematical passions, how they began their journey into the mathmatic field, and what are the cons of math classes in today's classroom.

Is our information safe out there? This is the real underlying question behing this humorous blog posting. I love the way this article pulls up the humors or encryptions and juxtaposes it with some of the ways that encrytion can be used in poor ways as well.

Cryptography is the art of being able to encrypt coding onto computers. But what has this "art" done to the safety of our information online. If this information is put into the wrong hands, it could be devistating to someone whose information (and most of ours is now days) on the internet. This article brings up the importance of safe guarding our information against those who could potentially attempt to steal it.

Quantum computers, argue many skilled MIT professionals, are the new, revolutionary way to perform advanced parallel quantum equations. They harness the use of particle, instead of bionary, which allows for a fast, multitaking, more advanced computer.

This article discusses the theory of "the evolving brain" arguing that due to our environmental and cultural influences our cognitive skills and neurological giftings will constantly be different. For example, one of the men mentioned in the article never learned long division but argues he doesnt have to develop that skill when a computer can do it for him. At the same time, the arguement comes about that he will possess a different set of skills (like harnessing computer lioteracy) that are more applicable to himself and his surrounding enviorment.

Alan Turing is written about in this article and praised for his pioneering efforts in the technology we see around us today. He set in motion that breaking of coding information to help spur on what we know today and information technology. He also had strong beliefs in the theory that technology could become intelligent.

This post talks about the intricate role that Quantum Physics play as an undertone in nature. How could we function without a GPS these days, furthermore how does nature know instinctively how to coordinate with its inner instincts and does quantum physicas have something to do with this?

Can emotions be replicated by a machine? Yann LeCun, a computer scientist at NYU, discusses the importance of emotions being prevelent in intelligent machines.

This post attempts to discuss and explor the possibility of the "thinking machine." Could computers become so smart as to function on a human level: think, feel, act, etc. as if it were really human? A panel discusses these phenominons and the reality behind the questions.

The Creator is a film that personifies computers in the future to ask where it is they came from and trace their lineage back to a man named Alan Turing, who first asked the question, "Can Machines Think?" After the viewing of the film top computers scientist will have open discussions concerning the questions and concerns this film brings up.

This article attempts to survey the history and turn up the evidence of who actually invented the internet. Who were its' pioneers? And what was the driving force behing it all, what is the history here?

Digital physicists try to explain that computation is not just for approximating reality but might actually be reality itself. The use examples such as bits instead of elementary particles or computer algorithims instead of physics. An interesting view on the computer world.

Eitan Grinspun walks us through the wonderful world of computers and physics and how they contribute, no how they make or break, a movie. This topic is so interesting because I feel like it embodies the term digital humanities. It is actually intertwined to make an inhuman thing human with the characteristics of movement, communication, etc.

How intricately is physics intertwined with nature: flight patterns or birds, photosynthesis, etc? How is the subatomic realm affecting the real world that we see taking place all around us each day, or is it? This posting talks about the correlations between the two and if there really is a correlation at all?