Kybernetica.com: June 2006 Archives

Kybernetica.com > June 28, 2006

Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?

[Evolving Trends] This is specially true from the point of view of machine comprehension as opposed to human comprehension.The Semantic Web requires the use of a declarative ontological language like OWL to produce domain-specific ontologies that machines can use to reason about information and make new conclusions, not simply match keywords.

Fast Food Chains Gain Efficiency with Robotics Technology

[TechnologyTalk.net: A look at technology's role in modern culture] The systems have been tested in McDonald's and Burger King, but Zaxby's is the company's first big client. The system was created by former Carnegie Mellon University researcher, Kerien Fitzpatrick, who designed the robotic technology to analyze its environment and make a decision.

Posted at 02:39 AM

June 28, 2006

Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?

Posted at 02:40 AM

Fast Food Chains Gain Efficiency with Robotics Technology

Posted at 02:39 AM

June 25, 2006

Smart device blocks unwanted video & still photography; camera neutralizing technology could halt movie piracy and clandestine

[Smart Economy] Video movie piracy is a booming billion dollar industry worldwide- a $3 billion-a-year problem by some estimates and endemic in countries like China and Russia. If someone clandestinely videotapes a movie in a theater and then puts it up on the web that day or burns several hundred thousand

Posted at 02:43 AM

Was There Ever A Time When Garfield Was Funny?

[The Official Site of Lafayette Park News--Home of Scurrilous Pundits Fred'n'Bert] Was There Ever A Time When Garfield Was Funny?This cartoon is about the compromises that the Democrats have been making and continue to make with this evil administration. Support for a disastrous war taken up for no GOOD reasons (although plenty of bad reasons) has been linked to patriotism--support an open-ended war with no end strategy and you're patriotic--call for a phased withdrawal and you're an evil traitor who's threatening the lives of "OUR BOYS".

Posted at 02:40 AM

June 22, 2006

Brussels Swarmanoid PostDoc

[Phase Portrait] I got this in the mail today... It's for a post-doctoral position building a SWARMANOID. I'm not kidding. PostDoc position available IRIDIA Institut...

Posted at 02:41 AM

Cafe Scientifique: Who’s afraid of conscious machines?

[Velcro City Tourist Board] I can say with certainty that there were at least forty or so people in the UK last night who weren’t obsessing over the fate of twentytwo overpaid men in shorts and one air-filled leather sack. We had far more interesting things to think about.

Posted at 02:41 AM

June 19, 2006

The Literature Map

[Mother Tongue Annoyances] Imagine a Web site where you could plug in your favorite author's name and you'd see an interactive map showing several other authors who are closely associated with your chosen author.

Posted at 02:55 AM

Guide to robot ethics set for publication

[Engadget] Well at least one group of roboticists aren't taking the danger lying down, and next month are set to release the first comprehensive guide to robot ethics since Isaac Hayes Asimov laid down his three famous rules over 60 years ago. Members of the European Robotics Research Network (Euron) have identified five major areas that need to be addressed before intelligent, self-aware bots start rolling off the assembly line -- safety, security, privacy, traceability, and identifiability -- so that humans can both control and keep track of their creations while ensuring that the data they collect is used only for its intended purposes.

Posted at 02:47 AM

June 16, 2006

Jay Barnson on AI

[News, opinions, articles, tips & tricks on game development with an Indie twist.] When I read Jay Barnson’s review of TGB last week, I made the mistake of not subscribing to his blog feed. Today, I went back to the blog by chance and found some great posts he has made recently on game AI.

Posted at 02:46 AM

Termination of Earth - T minus 10 years and counting

[Monkeypup! · Toys for Tots and Handjobs for everyone else] The University of Pennsylvania, which I once thought a decent school, has created robots that can work together. Great. First we give them brains, then we give them teamwork.

Posted at 02:43 AM

June 13, 2006

Minimal Rationality

[CrunchyLogic] Anyway, I doubt anyone would disagree with the motivation for Cherniak’s project, namely that the traditional assumptions that have been made about reasoning agents could not possibly lead to an accurate story about the logical abilities of finite agents (like humans.) Yet work on resource-bounded agents still seems to be a small fragment of the literature that explores these topics. An upcoming workshop that will fill some of this void will take place in ESSLLI:

Posted at 02:44 AM

geek porn of the day #4 - world cup winner predicted by artificial intelligence!

[Steal this idea!] Even though I'm very not much of a watching sports kind of guy I found this news geeky enough to qualify as geek porn of the day!

Posted at 02:42 AM

June 10, 2006

CAPTCHA This

[Semantic Void] Heres a cool CAPTCHA I came across at an IBM Developerworks Blog: So brush up your mathematics before plan to comment (-;...

Read related posts for „CAPTCHA This“.

Posted at 02:43 AM

104 - New Roots

[Pulse] Ecology is our tool for understanding how complex systems in nature””called ecosystems””work. As human population continues to grow and our impact on the world grows with it, the need to understand ecology and work within those principles increases.

Posted at 02:41 AM

June 07, 2006

Links for 06-06-2006

[Velcro City Tourist Board] UK All Party Parliamentary Internet Group recommends a number of things, most of which involve not repeating the DRM mistakes made over the pond. Hopefully the government will actually respond to the report the sensible way.

Posted at 02:47 AM

This Week in Science - June 06, 2006 Broadcast

[- This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast -] Disclaiming Disclaimers, Chocoholics Nightmare, Hayabusa Update!, Universal Baby Pictures, Australia Bashing… Really, Neutrinos Down By the Sea, Human or Not Human You Make the Call, No Need to Count Sheep, World Robot Domination!!!

Posted at 02:44 AM

June 04, 2006

Robot Rules

[Smart Economy] This set of regulations would constitute a first attempt at a formal version of the first of Asimov's science-fictional Laws of Robotics, or at least the portion that states that humans shall not be harmed by robots.

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Posted at 02:45 AM

93 - Real Artificial Life (Part Two)

[Pulse] Ray has joined with virtual-reality visionary Jaron Lanier, and a board of other luminaries, in the Darwin@Home project. It preserves and extends the concept of linking private computers through the Web, as a habitat for experimental new A-Life creatures.

Posted at 02:44 AM

Kybernetica.com > June 28, 2006

Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?

Fast Food Chains Gain Efficiency with Robotics Technology

June 28, 2006

Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?

Fast Food Chains Gain Efficiency with Robotics Technology

June 25, 2006

Smart device blocks unwanted video & still photography; camera neutralizing technology could halt movie piracy and clandestine

Was There Ever A Time When Garfield Was Funny?

June 22, 2006

Brussels Swarmanoid PostDoc

Cafe Scientifique: Who’s afraid of conscious machines?

June 19, 2006

The Literature Map

Guide to robot ethics set for publication

June 16, 2006

Jay Barnson on AI

Termination of Earth - T minus 10 years and counting

June 13, 2006

Minimal Rationality

geek porn of the day #4 - world cup winner predicted by artificial intelligence!

June 10, 2006

CAPTCHA This

104 - New Roots

June 07, 2006

Links for 06-06-2006

This Week in Science - June 06, 2006 Broadcast

June 04, 2006

Robot Rules

93 - Real Artificial Life (Part Two)

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