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Dharmendra Modha about cognitive computing

Dharmendra S. Modha , manager of cognitive computing at the IBM Almaden Research Center , discusses building a computing brain that mimics our own. Watch the video (youtube.com, ca 28 min).

Mind reading technology

Have you ever seen those new gadget like Emotiv’s headset (youtube, ca 3 min) to control and play video games? Now aussie scientists have developed a new gadget to read your mind which can “ignore background thoughts and focus on thoughts that require actions”.

Peter Norvig talks about innovation in search and AI

Watch the video (youtube.com, length about 1h) of Peter Norvig’s talk.

The blurb reads:”Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, and in Internet search, have been driven by the ability to build improved models from large amounts of data. This talk looks at the process of gathering and processing the data, building the models, and using them for new applications in language processing, computer vision, and other fields. “

Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, is an expert ace at building machines that answer tough questions.

Reverse engineer the brain with a mathematical model

A team of scientist at the Rockefeller University have developed a mathematical model which describes “how the trillions of interconnections among neurons could maintain a stable but dynamic relationship that leaves the brain sensitive enough to respond ...

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