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Well, almost none. The VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge is an epic autonomous road trip from Italy to China. Four (mostly) driverless vans are navigating the streets of Moscow, across Siberia and the Gobi Desert, and into Shanghai in time for the World Fair. The three-month, 8,000 mile venture is electric-powered, robot-steered, and a massive step forward for the field of autonomous driving technology. Check out this EuroNews feature on the VisLab trip: The VisLab vans on show in Milan, Italy. Computer Chip Implant to Program Brain Activity, Treat Parkinson’s. The ReNaChip will allow for fully programmable deep brain stimulation An international team of researchers led by Dr. Matti Mintz at the University of Tel Aviv is working on a biomimetic computer chip for brain stimulation that is programmable, responsive to neural activity, and capable of bridging broken connections in the brain.
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Best of all? It’s free. As we previously reported, the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB) is a project to produce thousands of standardized genetic “parts” for researchers to use in the pioneering work of synthetic biology. Started with a seed grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), BIOFAB is the world’s very first biological design-build facility. So what exactly is a synthetic biology “part”? Synthetic biology is an emerging field that combines biology and engineering to reconfigure DNA into desirable results, generally microorganisms that can be used to produce drugs, perform chemical reactions, or work as fuels. So who sets the standards?
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Baidu. Baidu, Inc. (Chinese: 百度; pinyin: Bǎidù, pronounced BY-doo in English), incorporated on January 18, 2000, is a Chinese web services company headquartered in the Baidu Campus in Haidian District in Beijing.[5] Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese language-search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online collaboratively built encyclopedia, and a searchable, keyword-based discussion forum.[6] Baidu was established in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu.
Both of the co-founders are Chinese nationals who studied and worked overseas before returning to China. Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files.[10] Baidu offers multimedia content including MP3 music, and movies, and is the first in China to offer Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and personal digital assistant (PDA)-based mobile search. Name[edit] Development[edit] Services[edit] LexisNexis. LexisNexis Group is a corporation providing computer-assisted legal research as well as business research and risk solution services.[2][3] During the 1970s, LexisNexis pioneered the electronic accessibility of legal and journalistic documents.[4] As of 2006, the company has the world's largest electronic database for legal and public-records related information.[5] History[edit] LexisNexis office in Markham Currently a division of Reed Elsevier,[6] LexisNexis was first a product of the Mead Data Central company.[3][5] The Anglo-Dutch publishing company Reed Elsevier has owned LexisNexis and its predecessor company since 1994.
At its inception in 1970, the database was named LEXIS by Mead Data Central (MDC), a subsidiary of the Mead Corporation. It was a continuation of an experiment organized by the Ohio State Bar in 1967. In December 1994, Mead sold the LexisNexis system to Reed Elsevier for $1.5 billion. In 2000, LexisNexis purchased RiskWise, a St. Legal content offerings[edit]
eHow. History[edit] Old logo, used until 2011 eHow was founded in 1999 and acquired by Demand Media in 2006. Originally it was a source of written articles and step-by-step instructions. At the time of its acquisition it had 17,000 articles and 5.8 million visitors a month. In 2009 the website introduced a mobile version for cell phone users and also was a CNET Webware 100 Winner in the category of Search & Reference. It was in 2009 that eHow was noted as having changed its method of identifying content to contract for creation. In 2011 the site released an iPad application, providing a direct shortcut to the website. Criticisms[edit] Demand Media and eHow in particular have been criticized for large amounts of low-quality content and for operating as a content farm, paying contributors low rates for content intended to rank high in search results, rather than focus on quality information,[3][4][5] with poor quality articles intended mainly to drive up search results rather than inform.
Metadata. Metadata is "data about data".[1] There are two "metadata types;" structural metadata, about the design and specification of data structures or "data about the containers of data"; and descriptive metadata about individual instances of application data or the data content. The main purpose of metadata is to facilitate in the discovery of relevant information, more often classified as resource discovery. Metadata also helps organize electronic resources, provide digital identification, and helps support archiving and preservation of the resource. Metadata assists in resource discovery by "allowing resources to be found by relevant criteria, identifying resources, bringing similar resources together, distinguishing dissimilar resources, and giving location information. " [2] Definition[edit] Metadata (metacontent) is defined as the data providing information about one or more aspects of the data, such as: Metadata is data.
Libraries[edit] Photographs[edit] Video[edit] Web pages[edit] [edit] [edit] Metaweb. Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Francisco-based company that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company, founded by Danny Hillis in 2005, was acquired by Google in 2010.[2] Although Metaweb no longer exists as a separate corporate entity, Freebase and its associated website freebase.com continue to be provided as an open database under Metaweb's original CC-BY licensing terms. Funding[edit] On March 14, 2006, Metaweb received $15 million in funding. Investors included: Benchmark Capital, Millennium Technology Ventures, and Omidyar Network.[3] Kevin Harvey of Benchmark Capital is a member of Metaweb's board of directors. On January 15, 2008, Metaweb announced a $42.5 million Series B round led by Goldman Sachs and Benchmark Capital.[4] Acquisition[edit] On July 16, 2010, Google acquired Metaweb for an undisclosed sum.[5] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Commonsense knowledge base. The problem is considered to be among the hardest in all of AI research because the breadth and detail of commonsense knowledge is enormous. Any task that requires commonsense knowledge is considered AI-complete: to be done as well as a human being does it, it requires the machine to appear as intelligent as a human being. These tasks include machine translation, object recognition, text mining and many others. To do these tasks perfectly, the machine simply has to know what the text is talking about or what objects it may be looking at, and this is impossible in general unless the machine is familiar with all the same concepts that an ordinary person is familiar with.
Information in a commonsense knowledge base may include, but is not limited to, the following: Lenat, Douglas; Guha, R. Semantic Web. The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by international standards body the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[1] The standard promotes common data formats on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web, dominated by unstructured and semi-structured documents into a "web of data". The Semantic Web stack builds on the W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF).[2] According to the W3C, "The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries".[2] The term was coined by Tim Berners-Lee for a web of data that can be processed by machines.[3] While its critics have questioned its feasibility, proponents argue that applications in industry, biology and human sciences research have already proven the validity of the original concept.
History[edit] Purpose[edit] Limitations of HTML[edit] Semantic Web solutions[edit] DeeperWeb. DeeperWeb is a free search engine tool for Google users that allows navigating through search results by employing tag cloud techniques. Additional technologies such as Topic-Mapping methods are implemented to assist users in identifying relevant results upon a specific topic. The tool allows integration with Google search results via its website as well as via a Firefox extension. A search plugin could be used for searching directly from the browser’s search box and is supported on both Internet Explorer 7 and 8 and Firefox 3+ web browsers. On May 5, 2009, DeeperWeb announced its beta release and has received a favorable welcome from the Internet and social media.[1][2] DeeperWeb's idea is based on a research article[3] written by the company founders, which examines the relationship between the core search engines and the Vertical search markets.
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