Posts tagged with ‘technology’
brain on a chip ?
How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype “brain on a chip” is already working. “We know that the brain has amazing computational capabilities,” remarks Karlheinz Meier, a physicist at Heidelberg University. “Clearly there is something to learn from biology. I believe that the systems we are going to develop could form part of a new revolution in information technology.”
It’s a strong claim, but Meier is coordinating the EU-supported FACETS project which brings together scientists from 15 institutions in seven countries to do just that. Inspired by research in neuroscience, they are building a ‘neural’ computer that will work just like the brain but on a much smaller scale.
Mon fiancé est persuadé que son iPhone est l’extension de son cerveau, et que l’objet viendra un jour à disparaître pour prendre place sous sa boite crânienne.
Des chercheurs du MIT MediaLab vont dans ce sens. Ils ont eux intégré Internet au bout des doigts, pour que la navigation en ligne devienne un de vos sens.
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Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninoff… You dream that one day you could play the piano, and let your fingers fly on the keyboard. But here is the problem you can’t have your hands do two different things simultaneously. Don’t despair, there might be a machine that could help you practice.
A Social Desk Lamp
Your desk lamp doesn’t understand you. You wish it could be more sensitive to your needs. You wish it could move freely like an animated lamp from the PIXAR cartoon company. Well, perhaps one of these days you will put your old lamp in the trash and replace it with one that communicates with you.
Crazy? Maybe not.
Imagine a lamp that would “feel” when you want more light. Sensing your needs, it would slowly bend its graceful neck, bringing its illumination closer to your page to better suit your eyes, because it “understands” your movements.
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For my generation of people, personal computers and cell phones are just routine.
We’re surrounded by technology devices and wonder how our parents got along without them back in the 70’s. A generation gap has formed: they believe that technology affects the way we build interpersonal relationships.
The OLPC mission misconception
On a rainy evening on January 17, 2007, Walter Bender, president for the software development at the non-profit One Laptop Per Child association (OLPC), arrives at the MIT Museum in Cambridge around 6:30 p.m. He parks his Peugeot mountain bike against the wall, on the left side of the Museum temporary door.
His yellow helmet in one hand, he climbs the stairs leading to the Soap Box event conference room, balancing his steps to the rhythm of his k-way trousers hiss.
The atmosphere is convivial, less than fifty people, men, women and children joined the event, and sit in arc in front of the soapbox. While John Durant, director of the MIT Museum introduces him, Bender pulls two green and white plastic laptops out of his backpack. When he opens them, the two antennas give the laptops a frog silhouette.
Here they stand, on a tiny podium, the famous $100 laptops.
Erasing memorya multimedia project about memory and the science of erasing it.
