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[HTGP] A Robotics Primer | HTGP: Robots, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) planetary rovers, require a multitude of sensors and powerful onboard computers to process the complex information that allows them mobility. This is particularly true for robots designed to work in close proximity with human beings, such as robots that assist persons with disabilities and robots that deliver meals in a hospital.

[Cool Box - Science] A.I. Machine or Life - Science - Cool Box: If the present is any guide, the answer to your question: "When does a program become a lifeform?" is: "Not yet." Though, "lifeform" and "sentient lifeform" (it's artificial intelligence, not artificial life) are not the same thing... AI research is funny - the idea that sentience can be planned or designed is a lovely theory, but that's all it is (I guess that goes for the "Intelligent Design" folks, too;

[The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel] Researchers Design Funny 'Bot' That Can Understand Humor: saysMazlack, who is the coordinator of the Applied Artificial IntelligenceLaboratory and coordinator of the Data and Knowledge Managementresearch group. "Currently, computers are often difficult tocommunicate with, to use and to apply to solving problems that areinformally stated."

[HarvardScience] Scholar makes robots that detect land mines | HarvardScience: In December 2004, drama visited the Indian Ocean nation in a killer wave: the tsunami that killed 225,000 people in 11 countries, including tens of thousands in coastal Sri Lanka. Thrish and hundreds of other scholars volunteered for relief work, bagging bodies, distributing food, and absorbing a nation’s collective shock.

[MY WORLD] Human Aspects of Software Engineering « MY WORLD: Every organization should aim at HASE as an important benchmark and include an ethics courses in science and engineering and hence increase the ability of professionals to recognize and solve ethical problems, to accept different moral perspectives and to adopt ethical pluralism. It would develop the skill and pattern of thinking rationally about ethical issues and in that way prepares software professionals, immaterial of their hierarchical status in any organization, for the challenges of their profession.

[Darth Mojo] how to survive a cylon uprising « Darth Mojo: Sure, Wilson’s book is an invaluable tool for teaching us how to cope with a generic, run-of-the-mill robot revolution, but what do we do when the world of Battlestar Galactica  becomes reality and the Cylons  rebel?  How do we defend ourselves against chrome-plated, red-eyed monstrosities, enemy fighters that think and robots that look like us?  Luckily for Darth Mojo readers, the good doctor put on his thinking cap, sharpened his pencil and scribbled down some must-have notes for the day when the phrase “By Your Command”  makes the transition from fantasy to fact…

[io9: Top] io9 - Thirteen Books That Will Change The Way You Look At Robots ...: What is still so profound and interesting about this collection of stories over half a century later is the extraordinary sympathy Asimov has for his robots, their minds emerging from a series of commands that often contradict one another. This is still one of the greatest attempts a writer has ever made to explain how robot minds would work differently from humans', while still acknowledging the fundamental personhood of these artificial beings.

[Future Update] California Supreme Court Overturns Law Barring Human-Robot ...: Human-robot marriage advocates gained backing for their arguments against Proposition 52 earlier this year after a CNN.com exposé showed the hypocrisy of the law, Luver said. That investigation, which could have forced the Supreme Court to nullify thousands of marriages, revealed that most of the housewives in Orange County were actually androids passing as botox-saturated women.

[Creekside Art Gallery Blog] MILLENIUM IMPRESSIONS of HUMAN EXPERIENCE | Creekside Art Gallery Blog: His Spencerian teaching method was franchised throughout North America, ultimately influencing the hand writing styles of millions. To learn the fluid artistic pen strokes and fancy flourished lines, students sometimes practiced by drawing pictures incorporating those exacting elements.

[Godssecret's Weblog] The future of space exploration- Droids (Robots) « Godssecret's Weblog: While Fink is encouraged by the progress made by missions such as the Mars Phoenix and its robotic arm, he emphasizes that the link between human and robot needs to be eliminated, allowing robots to make their own decisions on what science needs to be carried out. In reference to the Phoenix’s robotic arm he said, ”The arms are the tools, but it’s about the intent to move the arms. That’s what we’re after. To have the robot know that something there is interesting and that’s where it needs to go and then to go get a sample from it. That’s what we’ve after. You want to get rid of the joystick, in other words. You want the system to take control of itself and then basically use its own tools to explore.”

[Lifeblog] Life blog: Scott Rafer on Collaborative Intelligence: Scott made a comment earlier about Artificial Intelligence, stating basically that the optimistic Singularitarians are mixing up simple ('Weak') AI versus (seemingly) complex ('Strong') AI, and the potential of Strong AI in software actually happening to propel them to their Rapture of Singularity.*

[The Meming of Life] The Meming of Life » Leave them kids alone Parenting Beyond Belief ...: If you develop this into a chapter or speech at some point, you might want to look at robot theologian Anne Foerst’s seminal work in MIT’s artificial intelligence laboratory. Apparently she came from Harvard’s Divinity Schoolin to research whether new intelligence even in robots might need a spiritual advisor and theological counseling, as they became human-like and learned about emotions.

[Chicago Boyz] Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Why the Robots Will Always Rebel: Now take all that and consider this: Computer security today is competing with live, intelligent opponents–those who make use of evolutionary algorithms, distributed computing, and vast controlled computational resources when it suits the problem, and who make use of creative and analytic approaches at other times. And security is keeping pace.

[Blue Sky Sunshine's Blog] Blue Sky Sunshine's Blog » FUTURE WAR - FUTURE WEAPONS: The authors state “Certain biotechnical weapons - considered by some to violate the biological warfare convention to which the United States is a signatory - also may transgress American values regarding appropriate means.” They continue by discussing the public reaction to these weapons that would target “”¦Africans, Jews, Koreans, Hispanics etc.” America is a vast melting pot of races and ethnic groups - who collectively account for a significant portion of the entire US population. Significantly, the authors do not mention European or Anglo-Saxon minorities in their potential “ethnic-cleansing” targeting list?

[Orange Network] Orange Network » Blog Archive » See the latest books for the Month ...: It also brings together novel and philosophical trends in the exciting fields of artificial life and robotics. This book has the advantage of covering a large number of computational approaches, presenting the state-of-the-art before entering into the details of specific extensions and new developments.

[Brain Training, Meditation, Neuro-Leadership Coaching brought to you by The George Greenstein Institute] Brain Training, Meditation, Neuro-Leadership Coaching brought to ...: territory, constructing bots to help us understand precisely how we, as biological intelligence subjects, make sense of the world! After all, the programming of Leo tells us much about the way we are trying to understand ourselves as humans —

[The Linguist - language learning should be fun] The Linguist - language learning should be fun: Critical thinking ...: If their job is to teach how to read English as a second language, or how to read for those who are trying to learn basic reading, then I agree the critical thinking part is out of line at that stage. If they are teaching students that want to understand the deeper message of what they are reading, then they have the right to share their understanding or critical views of what the writer had to say and stimulate discussion in the class regarding this sort of thing.

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