Archives for the 'Information' Category
Making Things Talk
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 2:20 am.
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Filed under Coding, Entrepreneurship, Evolution, Exploration, Fun, Gadgets, Information, Intelligent Systems, Internet, Inventions, Research, Robotics, Technology.
Looking back, I am surprised at how electronics has quietly advanced to the point where we can buy small programmable computers on chips for a dollar or two. These are microcontrollers of course, and in my lab we are working on programming them to handle the tedious tasks in our robotics projects.
At makezine.com, I stumbled on this gem of […]
Introducing BigThink.com
Published on 16 Jan 2008 at 2:49 am.
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Filed under Fun, General, Information, Internet.
BigThink.com is a new website that is the YouTube of people’s opinions. They have topics of conversation along with videos of experts and viewers providing their opinions.
This is potentially an exciting new medium for the exchanging of ideas. However, in a world where we have come to believe that everyone’s opinion is somehow worthwhile, this […]
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Why Intelligent Machines Appear Intelligent (or Not)
Published on 24 Nov 2007 at 5:58 am.
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Filed under Computation, Exploration, Information, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Lego, Programming, Research, Robotics, Technology.
I have been working for about 48 hours (straight with intermittent cat naps) on my robotic arm, which is equipped with a point light sensor. I have re-programmed it to characterize polygons as well as circles. However, the main purpose of this research project is to develop an inquiry engine that is generally engineered to […]
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Collective Intelligence in Ant Colonies
Published on 18 Nov 2007 at 12:32 am.
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Filed under Biology, Information, Intelligent Systems.
I have always been fascinated by the idea that ant colonies may exhibit some kind of collective intelligence. Whether this is actually the case needs to be proven, however, I am not quite sure how one can prove such a hypothesis. As far as I am aware, there is no Turing Test for ant colonies. […]
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Wolfram Web Resources
Published on 17 Oct 2007 at 1:12 am.
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Filed under Computation, Entrepreneurship, Exploration, Fun, Information, Intelligent Systems, Internet, Mathematics, Research.
I received this brochure from Wolfram Research (Mathematica) describing their web resources. I am going to lose it… so I will remember it here in my Online Cortex.
wolfram.com
http://www.wolfram.com
Wolfram.com is updated regularly with information on new breakthroughs and developments for Mathematica users and technology enthusiasts around the world. This site features demonstrations and videos on the […]
