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Thursday, July 31, 2003

"Les puces �lucident les myst�res de la vision"
Rendre la vue aux aveugles va au-del� de la proph�tie biblique depuis que les chercheurs du monde entier s'attaquent de front au probl�me. Plusieurs chercheurs ont r�cemment pr�sent� des prototypes de r�tine artificielle � la Conf�rence Internationale sur
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030731S0030

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

"PROSTHESIS: Chips unravel vision mysteries"
Enabling the blind to see again is moving beyond the realm of Biblical prophecy as researchers around the world tackle the problem head-on. Recently, several researchers showed off artificial-retina prototypes at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030730S0032

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

"Intel s'associe � l'Alzheimer's Association"
Intel Corp. pense avoir trouv� la solution � ce que l'on appelle le � maintien � domicile des personnes �g�es �, c'est-�-dire l'apport de soins aux personnes �g�es qui d�cident de rester chez elles malgr� des probl�mes de sant� croissants, tels que la mal
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030729S0005

Monday, July 28, 2003

"AI: creating a veritable cognitive mind"
Marvin Minsky, MIT professor and AI's founding father, says today's artificial-intelligence methods are fine for gluing together two or a few knowledge domains but still miss the big AI problem. Indeed, according to Minsky, the missing element is something so big that we can't see it: common sense.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030728S0027
"AI: quest goes small-concept"
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in recent years has poured hundreds of millions into every aspect of big artificial intelligence-expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, fractal geometry, chaos theory, cellular automata, artificial life. And that just scratches the surface on the software side; legions of cognitive hardware architectures have also been beneficiaries of Darpa largesse. But thus far the far-flung investment has yielded little tangible return in solving the big-AI problem-getting machines to think like humans, learning from experience and applying logic and common sense to solve real-world problems. Given laymen's expectations of robots as fully cognitively functional assistants, that lack of quantitative progress has been a thorn in the agency's side.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030728S0026

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

"QUANTUM LED: Sandia's bright idea--hybrids that emit full-spectrum light"
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have blended quantum dots with an LED to produce a solid-state white-emitting device that does not depend on phosphors or multiple light sources.
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Text: http://www.eetuk.com/tech/news/OEG20030723S0030

Thursday, July 17, 2003

"AI: Darpa research focuses on 'cognitive computers'"
The Pentagon is funding artificial intelligence research under a $29 million program called the Perceptive Assistant that Learns (PAL) program.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030717S0040

Monday, July 14, 2003

"VR: Sympathetic' haptic device feels every remote move"
Countless science fiction books muse about systems that let one person share another's sensory experiences. Now a group at the State University of New York at Buffalo's Virtual Reality Lab is applying the concept in a haptic device for real-world applications.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030715S0024