Dharmendra Modha is manager of manager of cognitive computing at IBM Research Almaden. He also heads the project SyNAPSE, Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics. The aim of SyNAPSE is to build brain-like computers.

Dharmendra Modha has published a paper detailing the latest achievement: mapping a monkey’s brain. Watch the video in which Modha explains SyNAPSE or read his blog.

In last weeks post we discussed how AI can help make our lives easier (AI enters the home and workplace) - and not only there. Now a investment banking is looking into it too: Rebellion Research, a hedge fund in New York are using AI to make investment decisions. Watch the video below are read the WSJ article.

ai-one inc. has signed Martin Kopp and his firm Kopp Solutions GmbH as subject matter experts for project management, business development and sales support for enterprise accounts.

To view the entire press release please click here: PR_Kopp July 19 2010

AI applications are entering the home and workplace and making our lives easier today. Not only Siri, with which you can have a conversation, is helpful, but the auto maker Ford is building artificial intelligence into its interior design. Read more on how AI is helping us in our every day lives (forbes.com).

Research in cognition shows how entangled the body and brain are. So is it matter over mind? It seems so according to a new study. The study shows shows that objects you touch may influence the way you think and behave.

So, if you want to negotiate a tough deal, make sure you are sitting on a hard chair - or are you searching for a job? Take not: Resumes printed on heavy paper stock are likely considered more seriously than those on lightweight sheets. Read more about how touch influences what you think (abc.net.au)

Walter Digglemann presented at the SemTech 2010 partner projects CENDOO, Brainup and ASTIS™. You can download the slides of the presentation here.

We have all seen the Star Trek Science Fiction series where the crew talks and interacts with the computer in natural language. This is not so far away anymore, as in the recent years, rapid progress has been made in machines that can listen, speak, see, reason and learn, in their way. This will transform how we interact with machines, we already talk to our cars to do things like play music or talk to our cellphones to place a call instead of typing. Read more about the advances in AI in “Computers Learn to Listen, and Some Talk Back” (nytimes.com).

For the last three years, IBM has been working on perfecting Watson - a supercomputer they expect to be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution, or natural language and respond with a precise, factual answer.

Read the wonderful (albeit lengthy) article in New York Times or watch the IBM informercial below.

Walt Diggelmann will present partner projects CENDOO, Brainup and ASTIS™ at SemTech 2010, which takes place June 21-25 in San Francisco.

To view the entire press release please click here: PR_SemTech Presentation June 18 2010

ai-one inc. has signed Dr. Babak Nemati and his firm Strategic Intelligence   as subject matter experts for life science applications.  Dr. Nemati’s firm will provide scientific and industry domain expertise for the development of applications in medical imaging, drug discovery research tools and genomic sequencing.

To view the entire press release please click here: PR_Nemati June 17 2010