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Semantic Blog

http://blog.semantic.ch/

Semantic blog is all about (artificial) intelligence.

• Added on: Mar 18th, 2009
• Country: Switzerland
• Language: English

• Author: June von Bonin
• Listed in: Science Technology
• Tags: brain cognition intelligence

Recent Posts

• Semantic System Finalizes OEM Contract with CENDOO

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 08:21 in corporate blog

  Zurich, Switzerland/La Jolla, USA December 16 – CENDOO and Semantic System have entered into an OEM contract to use Semantic’s ai-one™ in CENDOO’s Butler product. Ever felt overwhelmed by too much information and communication? CENDOO and...

• Don’t know what to do next? Your phone does

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 03:22 in semantic

  Researchers have created an “aware” cell phone that learns the user’s behaviour pattern. The phone could provide a better service, for example how to better manage the video download when the user is about to leave the 3G network ra...

• AI anchors to replace human journalists

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 02:20 in semantic

  Engineers at Northwestern University have created with “News At Seven” an entire newsroom operation that uses artificial intelligence to collect stories, produce graphics and even anchor broadcasts via avatars. Check out the NSF video (...

• Are bigger brains always better?

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 03:47 in semantic

  Research shows that animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent. Honeybees for example can count and categorise similar objects like human faces, traits that scientist previously thought were limited to larger animals. So, what ar...

• Rival boffin dimissed IBM cat brain simulation als “hoax”

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 01:54 in semantic

  Remember how Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain project claimed in summer that an “artificial brain is 10 years away” (see Reverse-engineer the brain to build it)? The same boffin now dismissed last weeks news of IBM simulating ...

• IBM simulates cat’s brain with with 10^9 neurons, 10^13 synapses

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 02:43 in semantic

  Almost a year ago we blogged that IBM is trying to create electronic circuits that mimic brains. Now the scientists at IBM have announced that they have made indeed succeeded in simulating a cat-sized cerebral cortex and are now moving towards crea...

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Michael

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Posted: November 21st, 2009 | Report This Comment

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