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Tinkering with evolution: Ecological implications of modular software networks

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 1960s, Dr. Lawrence J. Fogel introduced what would come to be known as evolutionary programming to the nascent field of Artificial Intelligence in an attempt to produce intelligent softwa ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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Neural network learns to identify group sizes without knowledge of numbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cognitive sciences research duo out of Università di Padova, in Italy, have succeeded in building an artificial intelligence network that has through repetition, learned to identify relative group ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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Ping-pong robots debut in China (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week some oohs and ahhs were in order as two ping-pong playing robots made their debut at Zhejiang University in China. The two robots played against each other and with humans. True, ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 15, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 10 | with audio podcast weblog

Researchers give robot ability to learn (w/ Video)

Researchers with the Hasegawa Group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have created a robot that is capable of applying learned concepts to perform new tasks. Using a type of self-replicating neural technology ...

Electronics / Robotics

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Researchers create the first artificial neural network out of DNA

Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Spacesuits with artificial intelligence may look for life on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts may in future be wearing spacesuits equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital eyes, turning them into what the researchers call cyborg astrobiologists.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Ego City: Cities organized like human brains

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cities are organized like brains, and the evolution of cities mirrors the evolution of human and animal brains, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Mollusks taste memories to build shells (w/Video)

University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Alistair Boettiger has amassed a beautiful collection of seashells, but not by combing the beach. He created them in his computer.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Researchers develop method that shows diverse complex networks have similar skeletons

Northwestern University researchers are the first to discover that very different complex networks -- ranging from global air traffic to neural networks -- share very similar backbones. By stripping each network down to its ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Vertebrates share ancient neural circuitry for complex social behaviors: study

Humans, fish and frogs share neural circuits responsible for a diversity of social behavior, from flashy mating displays to aggression and monogamy, that have existed for more than 450 million years, biologists at The University ...

Biology / Other

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Computer scientists form mathematical formulation of the brain's neural networks

As computer scientists this year celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematical genius Alan Turing, who set out the basis for digital computing in the 1930s to anticipate the electronic age, they still quest ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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Japanese scientist unveils 'thinking' robot

Robots that learn from experience and can solve novel problems -- just like humans -- sound like science fiction.

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 38

Web-crawling the brain

The brain is a black box. A complex circuitry of neurons fires information through channels, much like the inner workings of a computer chip. But while computer processors are regimented with the deft economy of an assembly ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify 'Facebook neurons'

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found that within the brain's neocortex lies a subnetwork of highly active neurons that behave much like people in social networks. Like Facebook, these neuronal ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

I want to see what you see: Babies treat 'social robots' as sentient beings

Babies are curious about nearly everything, and they're especially interested in what their adult companions are doing. Touch your tummy, they'll touch their own tummies. Wave your hands in the air, they'll ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast