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Mar 9, 2016
Death Reversal — The Reanima Project — Research Whose Time Has Come
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, biotech/medical, business, cryonics, health, life extension, neuroscience, posthumanism, science, scientific freedom
I have spent the last 30 years in various aspects of the biopharmaceutical industry, which for the most part has been a very rewarding experience.
However, during this time period, having been immersed many different components of therapeutic development and commercialization, one thing has always bothered me: a wide array of promising research never makes it off the bench to see the translational light of day, and gets lost in the historical scientific archives.
I always believed that scientific progress happened in a very linear narrative, with each new discovery supporting the next, resulting ultimately in an eventual stairway of scientific enlightenment.
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Mar 8, 2016
Match 1 — Google DeepMind Challenge Match: Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: computing, robotics/AI
Watch DeepMind’s program AlphaGo take on the legendary Lee Sedol (9-dan pro), the top Go player of the past decade, in a $1M 5-game challenge match in Seoul. This is the livestream for Match 1 to be played on: 9th March 13:00 KST (local), 04:00 GMT; note for US viewers this is the day before on: 8th March 20:00 PT, 23:00 ET.
In October 2015, AlphaGo became the first computer program ever to beat a professional Go player by winning 5–0 against the reigning 3-times European Champion Fan Hui (2-dan pro). That work was featured in a front cover article in the science journal Nature in January 2016.
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Mar 8, 2016
Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on His Rocket Company, Blue Origin
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
Mar 8, 2016
Germany: This humanoid can do your housework and keep you company
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
Still can she walk and run without stumbling or jerking?
Toshiba’s humanoid robot ‘ChihiraKanae’ was displayed for the first time in Europe at a press preview of the International Travel Trade Show in Berlin, Tuesday. The humanoid resembles a young woman, and is able to talk, move and act according to the specifications.
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Mar 8, 2016
North Korea attempts horror cyber terror attack on the South’s train network
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, transportation
Mar 8, 2016
Windows Could Soon Power the Entire Building
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: habitats, materials, particle physics, quantum physics, solar power, sustainability
Q-Dots windows to power homes and other buildings.
Researchers at the Los Alamos National Lab may have found a way to take quantum dots and put them in your ordinary windows to turn them into solar collectors.
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Mar 8, 2016
Carnegie Mellon robotics selected for research projects totaling more than $11 million
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
Big news for Carnegie-Mellon’s Robotics department.
Robotics researchers gearing up for busy, productive year.
Mar 8, 2016
The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million “Apollo Project of the Brain”
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, government, information science, military, neuroscience, robotics/AI
US Government’s cool $100 mil in brain research. As we have been highlighting over the past couple of months that the US Government’s IARPA and DARPA program’s have and intends to step up their own efforts in BMIs and robotics for the military; I am certain that this research will help their own efforts and progress.
Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.
By Jordana Cepelewicz on March 8, 2016.
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Mar 8, 2016
Travellers Expect Robots on Their Holidays
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
Interesting set of survey results on travel and robotics. However, like many things in life; things in moderation have more stayong poor v. going overboard. And, robots are not exception to this. It is inate for humans to have and need human interaction especially in personable service space.
LONDON, March 9, 2016 /NEWS.GNOM.ES/ — A survey of more than 6,000 travellers in Asia, Europe, North America and South America reveals nearly 80% of respondents expect robots to play a big part in their lives by 2020, with three quarters believing they will make their lives significantly better. Almost two thirds of respondents would be comfortable with robots being used in the travel industry. (Logo: http://photos.NEWS.GNOM.ES.com/prnh/20160303/340128LOGO )
Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO), a global media commerce company, conducted the research as part of its Future of Travel project exploring consumer acceptance of robots in the travel and tourism industry. Richard Singer, Travelzoo’s European President, will make a keynote speech on the findings at this year’s ITB Berlin – Europe’s largest travel trade show. On March 11, Mr. Singer will share the stage with Toshiba’s Chihira Kanae – one of the world’s most human-looking robots, who will make her European debut at the event.
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