Neuroscience
Wired News: It's Alive (ish)
A lovely article on Animats with Potter at Georgia Tech. $60K is the going rate for an Animat setup these days. At $60K, he can't do the kind of multi-animat networking he'd like to do -- too bad, but maybe something similar can be done!
- Hybrot Neuroart
The Animat multi-electrode array consists of 60 electrodes embedded on a glass culture dish on which thousands of cultured rat neurons spontaneously form a neural network. They interface to control a simulator for a pair of pneumatic robot arms which...
- Brains Can Be Kept Alive In Isolation
Keeping brains alive in vitro has been possible since the sixties. Part one of the prerequisites for "biological AI" seems to be mostly solved. Robert J White on head transplantation. Brain transplantation (Warning: mildly gory/sensationalist article):...
- Web 2.0 For My Friends Or, A Facebook Frenzy!
In thinking back over 2008, one of the best things about the year was the proliferation of friends, buddies, and acquaintances I met. For the most part, this meeting took place online, through various social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and...
- Fiction Science
I just finished a fabulous novel: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Ishiguro wrote The Remains of the Day, and while this shares the exquisite sadness and beautifully-drawn characters of the 1989 novel, it's really nothing like it. Never Let Me...
- Splogs = Bad News
An article in the September issue of Wired: Spam + Blogs =Trouble answers the question "why do I have to type 'zvtmzu' to post a comment on your blog?!" Because of splogs & link farms. Blech. Jon Gordon on Future Tense interviewed Charles C. Mann,...
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Wired News: It's Alive (ish)
A lovely article on Animats with Potter at Georgia Tech. $60K is the going rate for an Animat setup these days. At $60K, he can't do the kind of multi-animat networking he'd like to do -- too bad, but maybe something similar can be done!
- Hybrot Neuroart
The Animat multi-electrode array consists of 60 electrodes embedded on a glass culture dish on which thousands of cultured rat neurons spontaneously form a neural network. They interface to control a simulator for a pair of pneumatic robot arms which...
- Brains Can Be Kept Alive In Isolation
Keeping brains alive in vitro has been possible since the sixties. Part one of the prerequisites for "biological AI" seems to be mostly solved. Robert J White on head transplantation. Brain transplantation (Warning: mildly gory/sensationalist article):...
- Web 2.0 For My Friends Or, A Facebook Frenzy!
In thinking back over 2008, one of the best things about the year was the proliferation of friends, buddies, and acquaintances I met. For the most part, this meeting took place online, through various social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and...
- Fiction Science
I just finished a fabulous novel: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Ishiguro wrote The Remains of the Day, and while this shares the exquisite sadness and beautifully-drawn characters of the 1989 novel, it's really nothing like it. Never Let Me...
- Splogs = Bad News
An article in the September issue of Wired: Spam + Blogs =Trouble answers the question "why do I have to type 'zvtmzu' to post a comment on your blog?!" Because of splogs & link farms. Blech. Jon Gordon on Future Tense interviewed Charles C. Mann,...