Neuroscience
A New Company to Focus on Artificial Intelligence
March 24, 2005
Technology: A New Company to Focus on Artificial Intelligence
New York Times
By JOHN MARKOFF
The technologist and the marketing executive who co-founded Palm Computing
are starting a new company to license software technologies based on a
theory of how the mind works.
" ... Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky will remain involved with what is now called PalmOne, but on Thursday they plan to announce the creation of Numenta, a technology development firm that will conduct research in an effort to extend Mr. Hawkins's theories. Those ideas were initially sketched out last year in his book "On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines," co-written with Sandra Blakeslee."
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Machineslikeus
MachinesLikeUs is a new website about artificial intelligence, evolution, cognition and related topics. It features a news blog, book reviews, links, user forum, and informative profiles (links, quotes, bios) of scientists such as Jeff Hawkins, Stephen...
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Novamente Llc - Artificial General Intelligence
Novamente LLC - Artificial General Intelligence Who are these guys? It looks like they rose from the ashes of Genobyte in 2001, which was working on the artifical neuron and artificial brain hardware. They had a paper in AAAI about artificial general...
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Jeff Hawkins & The Redwood Center For Theoretical Neuroscience
A UC Berkeley Press Release:Jeff Hawkins, computing pioneer, endows new center to develop model of brain By Robert Sanders, Media Relations 06 October 2005 BERKELEY – Jeff Hawkins, creator of the first commercially...
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Cyc! (pronounced "psych")
There's a nice review of artificial intelligence from the April 23, 2005 issue of New Scientist. Covers various AI devices, including versions of the ALICE chatbot, as well as a brief history of AI. Also mentions cyc, a new artificial brain called...
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New Books, Jan 21
Arab mass media : newspapers, radio, and television in Arab politics; by Rugh, William A.. publisher: Praeger, 2004. for more info.
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking; by Malcolm Gladwell. publisher: Little, Brown, 2005. for more info....
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