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Tuesday August 24, 2010 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Eating berries may activate the brain's natural housekeeper for healthy aging Synaptic Behaviour Captured By New Memristor Circuit Design Mining Mood Swings on the Real-Time Web Ready for 2020? Advice for every career stage Frog cells give artificial nose the power of super smell Replacing a Pile of Textbooks With an iPad Latest News Eating berries may activate the brain's natural housekeeper for healthy aging August 24, 2010   Scientists on Monday reported the first evidence that eating blueberries, strawberries, acai berries, and possibly walnuts may help the aging brain stay healthy in a crucial but previously unrecognized way. Their study concluded that berries activate the brain's natural "housekeeper" mechanism, which cleans up and recycles toxic proteins linked to age-related memory loss and other mental … more… Synaptic Behaviour Captured By New Memristor Circuit Design August 24, 2010   Source Link: the physics ArXiv blog   Farnood Merrikh-Bayat and Saeed Bagheri at the University of Tehran have connected memristors (memory resistors) together in a way that mimics the wiring of human brains, reproducing Hebbian-type synapse strengthening. Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1008.3450: Bottleneck Of Using Single Memristor As A Synapse And Its Solution Mining Mood Swings on the Real-Time Web August 24, 2010   Source Link: Technology Review   Social-media analytics startup Viralheat is now offering free, real-time access to the data it is collecting on attitudes toward particular topics or products. One of the first customers for this new service — called Social Trends — is ESPN, which plans to use Social Trends to show live popularity rankings for different NFL teams.` Viralheat uses natural-language … more… Ready for 2020? Advice for every career stage August 24, 2010   Source Link: Computerworld As the effects of accelerating technology ripple across the corporate world and combine with the forces of the Web, mobile computing, consumerization and virtualization, "traditional IT organizations won't look [the way] they do now," says Thomas Druby, an IT executive. To address the gap between college and real-world experience, the ACM has introduced new curriculum guidelines … more… Frog cells give artificial nose the power of super smell August 24, 2010   Source Link: New Scientist Tech Bioengineers at the University of Tokyo have created a more sensitive e-nose by genetically modifying frog eggs to express proteins known to act as smell receptors. They placed the modified cells between electrodes and measured the telltale currents generated when different molecules bound to the receptors. They found this method can distinguish between many nearly identical … more… Replacing a Pile of Textbooks With an iPad August 24, 2010   Source Link: New York Times   A new company called Inkling hopes to break the standard textbook model and help textbooks enter the interactive age by letting students share and comment on the texts and interact with fellow students, using an iPad. Other features include interactive graphics within a book and the ability to search text, change the size of the type, purchase … more… New EVENTS Second SENS Foundation L.A. Chapter Meeting Dates: Aug 27 – 27, 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA more... 17th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology Dates: May 26 – 29, 2011 Location: Denton, TX more... Latest Kurzweil Corner posts CNET: Ray Kurzweil on the Future of reading Microsoft's Steve Ballmer presents Blio: the Consumer Electronics Show Blio eReader iPhone demo Virtual Tour of the Blio eReader Presenting virtually in holographic 3D using the Teleportec "Teleporter" Public Speaking Highlights Charlie Rose BookTV on C-SPAN2 The Glenn Beck Show, April 2008 The Glenn Beck Show, May 2008 The Daily Show w. John Stewart The Computer History Museum

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Thursday August 12, 2010 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Scientists identify DNA that may contribute to each person's uniqueness First plastic computer memory device the spin of electrons to read and write data MRI scans show brain's response to actions of others Delivering a knockout Light and moderate physical activity reduces the risk of early death A new blueprint for artificial general intelligence Artificial Biology at Singularity Summit 2010 The Mind and How To Build One Latest News Scientists identify DNA that may contribute to each person's uniqueness August 12, 2010 Building on a tool that they developed in yeast four years ago, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine scanned the human genome and discovered what they believe is the reason people have such a variety of physical traits and disease risks. In a report published in the June 25 issue of Cell, the … more… First plastic computer memory device the spin of electrons to read and write data August 12, 2010 Researchers at Ohio State University have demonstrated the first plastic computer memory device that utilizes the spin of electrons to read and write data. An alternative to traditional microelectronics, the "spintronics" device could store more data in less space, process data faster, and consume less power. In the August 2010 issue of the journal Nature Materials, Arthur J. Epstein … more… MRI scans show brain's response to actions of others August 12, 2010 Affter studying the gray matter of 38 people in a Stanford experiment, psychologists concluded it is the perceived intentions — not the actions — of others that lead us to cherish the charitable and spurn the selfish. The finding comes from the work of Jeff Cooper, who spent his time as a Stanford doctoral candidate studying … more… Delivering a knockout August 12, 2010   Source Link: Science News For the first time, scientists have succeeded in genetically engineering a rat by specifically removing a single gene,  reported online August 11 in Nature. The process is known to geneticists as "knocking out" a gene; in this case, the gene encodes a powerful anticancer protein known as p53. Rats lacking the gene p53, which are likely to be … more… Light and moderate physical activity reduces the risk of early death August 12, 2010   Even light or moderate intensity physical activity, such as walking or cycling, can substantially reduce the risk of early death, a new study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Cambridge University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has found. The study,  published this week by the International Journal of Epidemiology, combined … more… New BLOG POSTS A new blueprint for artificial general intelligence August 12, 2010 by Amara D. Angelica   Demis Hassabis, a research fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, is out to create a radical new kind of artficial brain. A former well-known UK videogame designer and programmer, he has produced a number of amazing games, including the legendary Evil Genius — which he denies selling to Microsoft, thus ruining a perfectly good joke. He … more… Artificial Biology at Singularity Summit 2010 August 12, 2010 by David Despain   Humans will one day defeat aging with AI, make death and disease relics of the past, regrow lost tissues and body parts as needed, control robot arms on another continent, unravel the complexities of cells, and in their spare time, save the world. At least that's the hope of six speakers at Singularity Summit 2010 … more… The Mind and How To Build One August 12, 2010 by Ray Kurzweil At the Singularity Summit in San Francisco at 11 AM on Saturday August 14, Ray Kurzweil will present an overview of "arguably the most important project in the history of the human-machine civilization": to model and reverse-engineer the brain, with the goal of creating intelligent machines to address the grand challenges of humanity. He prepared the … more… New EVENTS International Conference on Quantum Information and Computation Dates: Oct 4 — 8, 2010 Location: Stockholm, Sweden more... Anime Expo 2011 Dates: Jul 1 — 4, 2011 Location: Los Angeles, California more...

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Tuesday August 10, 2010 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Brain is organized like the Internet: USC neuroscientists Stephen Hawking's Warning: Abandon Earth—Or Face Extinction The First Church of Robotics Why SIRT1 in your brain may keep you smart Carboncopies–Realistic Routes to Substrate-Independent Minds Latest News Brain is organized like the Internet: USC neuroscientists August 10, 2010 A study by USC scientists of the brain connections in a small area of the rat brain showed them as patterns of circular loops, suggesting that at least in this part of the rat brain, the wiring diagram looks like a distributed network, rather than a hierarchy, the traditional view. "We started in one place and … more… Stephen Hawking's Warning: Abandon Earth—Or Face Extinction August 10, 2010 "Our only chance of long term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space," Stephen Hawking said in an interview Friday with Big Think. "We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future … more… The First Church of Robotics August 10, 2010   Source Link: New York Times "By allowing artificial intelligence to reshape our concept of personhood, we are leaving ourselves open to the flipside: we think of people more and more as computers, just as we think of computers as people," says author and computer scientist Jeron Lanier. "The constant stream of stories about AI suggests that machines are becoming smart … more… New BLOG POSTS Why SIRT1 in your brain may keep you smart August 10, 2010 by David Despain   Picture a scene in the ancient wild: a time when drought and famine has taken the land, food is scant and predators are near, and staying alive depends on being active, alert, and quick-witted — and asking, "Where did I find those nuts last year, and where was that water hole?" A protein called SIRT1 in … more… Carboncopies–Realistic Routes to Substrate-Independent Minds August 9, 2010 by Randal Koene   What might brains and minds look like in the future? It can be difficult to manage and organize ideas from many highly specialized fields of expertise that must necessarily converge to answer this intriguing question. Not only must one consider the areas of brain imaging, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology, but also artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, biotechnology, … more… New EVENTS DEMO Fall 2010 Dates: Sep 13 — 15, 2010 Location: Silicon Valley, California more... GoingGreen Silicon Valley 2010 Dates: Sep 13 — 15, 2010 Location: San Francisco, California more... OnHollywood 2010 Dates: Sep 27 — 29, 2010 Location: Los Angeles, California more... International Conference on 3D Body Scanning Technologies Dates: Oct 19 — 20, 2010 Location: Lugano, Switzerland more... ACM Symposium on Software Visualization Dates: Oct 25 — 26, 2010 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah more... VIEW Conference 2010 Dates: Oct 26 — 29, 2010 Location: Turin, Italy more...