On Wednesday November 4, 2009 (11:30-13:00 CET) Walter Diggelmann will talk to University Pforzheim students and industry representatives (Daimler, Bosch, Festo, Porsche) of “AK Wissensmanagement” about biologically inspired intelligence.
On Thursday October 29, 2009 the Swiss shares of semantic system were exchanged into US-shares. Shareholder picked up their US-shares at the reception in the premises of semantic system in Zurich.
Neuroscientists are studying how the structure of the brain might be related to intelligence. They hope that finding the brain areas and circuits involved in intelligence will provide new insight into our cognitive ability. Watch Richard Haier, psychologgist and emeritus professor at the University of California, Irvine, explain how brain imaging is shedding light on intelligence or read the article “Intelligence Explained“.
(Via technologyreview)
Dharmendra S. Modha, manager of cognitive computing at the IBM Almaden Research Center, discusses building a computing brain that mimics our own. Watch the video (youtube.com, ca 28 min).
Have you ever seen those new gadget like Emotiv’s headset (youtube, ca 3 min) to control and play video games? Now aussie scientists have developed a new gadget to read your mind which can “ignore background thoughts and focus on thoughts that require actions”.
(via news.com.au)
Watch the video (youtube.com, length about 1h) of Peter Norvig’s talk.
The blurb reads:”Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, and in Internet search, have been driven by the ability to build improved models from large amounts of data. This talk looks at the process of gathering and processing the data, building the models, and using them for new applications in language processing, computer vision, and other fields. “
Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, is an expert ace at building machines that answer tough questions.
