News tagged with intelligence

UT Austin Villa wins World RoboCup championships in 3-D simulation

UT Austin Villa, a team of programmers led by University of Texas at Austin computer scientists Peter Stone and Patrick MacAlpine, has won the 2011 RoboCupSoccer championships in the 3-D simulation division.

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Teaching robots to identify human activities

(PhysOrg.com) -- If we someday live in "smart houses" or have personal robots to help around the home and office, they will need to be aware of what humans are doing. You don't remind grandpa to take his arthritis ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fewer verbs and nouns in financial reporting could predict stock market bubble, study shows

When the language used by financial analysts and reporters becomes increasingly similar the stock market may be overheated, say scientists.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA's smartphone-powered satellite

In 1999, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor David Miller showed the movie, "Star Wars" to his students on their first day of class. Following the scene where Luke Skywalker spars with a ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An Israeli algorithm sheds light on the Bible

Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible. The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 66

Home of suspected LulzSec member raided: WSJ

US Federal Bureau of Investigation agents carried out a raid on the home of an Ohio man suspected of being a member of the Lulz Security hacker group, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Hackers hit videogame giant Electronic Arts

US videogame giant Electronic Arts (EA) on Friday revealed that hackers had looted user data in "a highly sophisticated" attack.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British teen arrested over CIA, US Senate hacking

British police working with the FBI arrested a 19-year-old man over attacks by a hacker group on businesses and government agencies including the CIA, US Senate and Sony, Scotland Yard said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Inspired by insect intelligence

Monash University researchers, as part of an international collaboration, are using insect intelligence to develop new wireless sensor networks that could transform how we monitor changes to the environment, ...

Technology / Other

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Germany opens cybersecurity centre

Germany's interior minister opened Thursday a new cybersecurity centre to protect the country's infrastructure from what he said was a growing menace posed by hackers.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hackers claim hit on CIA website (Update 2)

A hacker group was brazenly ramping up its antics as waves of cyberattacks targeting even the US spy agency expose how poorly defended many networks are against Internet marauders.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 8

Let's get physics-al: Computing will continue to evolve into the future

Will the future bring us the teleportation devices of "Star Trek" or the sinister machines of the "Matrix"? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku of the City College of New York says that many of the things that were once the ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Interview: Dr. Ben Goertzel on Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source (Part 2/2)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Ben Goertzel is Chairman of Humanity+; CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 52 | with audio podcast feature

Interview: Dr. Ben Goertzel on Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source (Part 1/2)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Ben Goertzel is Chairman of Humanity+; CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 142 | with audio podcast feature

Smart wheelchair soars in top innovations list

Aviator, the smart wheelchair technology developed in the UTS Centre for Health Technologies, has been awarded third place in the Anthill SMART 100 Index. ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0