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What is Collective Intelligence?

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A 5 min video presentation on the meaning and importance of collective intelligence from Ideas Lab’s YouTube Channel of MIT’s Thomas Malone. Related articles by Zemanta Forget IQ, Collective Intelligence is the New Measure of Smart (video) (singularityhub.com)

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Bodybuilder Sushi or Frankenstein’s Fish: Trout with 6-pack Abs

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After 10 years of trying researchers at the University of Rhode Island have succeeded in creating transgenic fish with six pack abs and muscular shoulders. By inhibiting myostatin, a protein which regulates muscle growth, the team managed to breed rainbow trout that on average had 15 to 20 percent more muscle mass than normal fish, thereby increasing proportionally its total body mass. I don’t know if it is the looks or the thought of it, but I have to admit that, while I can see how such transgenic fish can indeed provide a tremendous boost to the profitability of the fish farming industry, somehow I am not eager to see it in my plate anytime soon. How about you? Fancy a fish with 6-pack abs? Bodybuilder Sushi or Frankenstein’s Fish: Trout with 6-pack Abs Or do you think it is [...]

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Virtopsy: Autopsy goes Virtual with Virtobot

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As stated on their Virtopsy.com web site the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland is working on the future of forensic medicine and science by creating what the British daily the Telegraph recently called Autopsy without the Scalpel. From the Vitropsy.com web site: “Virtopsy® was born from the desire to implement new techniques in radiology for the benefit of forensic science. There have been great improvements in MSCT and MRI technology, increasing both contrast and resolution and offering possibilities of 2D and 3D reconstruction. The aim is to establish an observer independent, objective and reproducible forensic assessment method using modern imaging technology, eventually leading to minimally invasive “virtual” forensic autopsy.” Check out the videos below to learn more about the process, its applications and its respective technological break-throughs. Warning: Some of the images may be [...]

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Who was Ada Lovelace?

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BrainPOP.com, a site that makes short educational animated films, recently posted a short film about the life and work of Ada Lovelace. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage‘s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; as such she is often regarded as the world’s first computer programmer. Click the link to see the film: Who was Ada Lovelace?

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Optogenetics: Controlling the Brain with Light

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Continuing the topic of Mind Reading, Thought Control and Neuro Marketing I am posting this YouTube video of Karl Deisseroth who is pioneering bold new treatments for depression and other psychiatric diseases. By sending pulses of light into the brain, Deisseroth can control neural activity with remarkable precision. In this short talk, Deisseroth gives a thoughtful and awe-inspiring overview of his Stanford University lab’s groundbreaking research in “optogenetics” while not hiding the number of philosophical, ethical, moral and clinical implications of his research. Related articles by Zemanta Optogenetics: controlling brain cells with lasers (newscientist.com) Using Light and Genes to Probe the Brain (scientificamerican.com) Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again (neatorama.com) Mind control with sound and light (boingboing.net) Playing the Body Electric (scientificamerican.com)

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CCTV predicts suspicious behavior (or makes you buy more)

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An interesting Reuters News video about a new software that uses CCTV cameras to predict suspicious behavior. Click the link to watch the original Reuters video CCTV predicsts suspicious behavior. Tech news update from Engadget.com: DARPA sets sight on cameras that understand Video Update from the NY Times: Now on Video: Your Trip to the Mall In these series of videos Paco Underhill, the author of Why We Buy and Call of the Mall shared samples of video used by retailers with The New York Times and explained how retailers are using such technology to improve their operations. The videos and Paco’s analysis of each video clip can be reached by clicking the link below. Mr. Underhill is the founder of Envirosell, a company that provides video surveillance services and research to major retailers in the United States and abroad. [...]

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Elementary, my dear, Watson: Who is Smarter than Human?

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In the 1940s Alan Turing famously predicted that one day computers will defeat humans in chess. In 1997 IBM’s Deep Blue defeated the reigning world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Currently, IBM is building a natural language processing computer named Watson, designed to compete in the game show Jeopardy and, ultimately, defeat any human opponent. (You can test yourself against Watson by playing the NY Times Trivia Challenge Game here.) As you can see in the videos Watson is still very much a work in progress. However, is there anyone who honestly doubts the inevitable? Do you need to be a Sherlock Holmes to see what’s coming? I think it’s elementary. Big deal. Someone will say. I remember reading once that famous linguist Noam Chomsky commented that Deep Blue defeating Kasparov in chess was as interesting as a bulldozer winning the [...]

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The Future of the Internet and Its Impact

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Following my post asking Does technology make us smart or stupid? I found this interesting ABC News video interview with Lee Rainie director of the Pew Internet Project. Mr Rainie is discussing their findings not only about the above question but also whether Google makes us stupid, the impact of the internet on human cognition and literacy, the future of the internet and innovation in general, the free flow of internet information and free content and so on. Related articles by Zemanta Internet making our brains different, not dumb (msnbc.msn.com) Pew: Online News Users Don’t Want To Pay – Or Look At Ads (paidcontent.org) Facebook and Twitter making news social (vator.tv) Internet makes news shared experience, Pew says (sfgate.com) If you’re stupid, it’s not Google’s fault (computerworld.com) Futures of the Internet (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

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