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David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" Hanson Robotics is proud to introduce Jules - (Build 20100722150226) David Hanson (robotics designer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226) "Albert Hubo" a robot created by Hanson and the KAIST Hubo group David Franklin Hanson, Jr is an American robotics designer and researcher, responsible for the creation of a series of realistic humanoid robots.[1] Hanson develops human-like robots with realistic facial expressions and conversational abilities [Hanson et al., 2006].
He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in film/animation/video, while developing robots as art. Hanson later worked as a sculptor and a technical consultant at Walt Disney Imagineering. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in spring of 2007. Hanson’s robots were shown first at the 2002 AAAI conference in Edmonton, Canada [Hanson, 2002] and in 2003, he showed the Kbot at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting [Ferber, 2003].
In November 2005, Hanson demonstrated an expressive walking humanoid, a portrait of Albert Einstein, in collaboration with the KAIST Hubo group of Korea. HANSON ROBOTICS - (Build 20100722150226) Jungle Fever - By John Tooby - Slate Magazine - (Build 20100722150226) To read a reponse to this article from the editors of The New Yorker, click here.
Lately I've been engrossed in—and in some sense involved in—the most sensational scandal to emerge from academia in decades. The scandal erupted last month when two anthropologists, Terry Turner and Leslie Sponsel, sent a searing letter to the president of the American Anthropological Association. The letter distilled a series of chilling "revelations" made by the journalist Patrick Tierney in his forthcoming book Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. According to Turner and Sponsel, the scandal unearthed by Tierney, "in its scale, ramifications, and sheer criminality and corruption," is "unparalleled in the history of Anthropology.
" Turner and Sponsel's letter spread like a virus over the Internet, quickly driving the controversy into the mainstream press. John Tooby: Books - (Build 20100722150226) John Tooby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226) John Tooby is an American anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology.[1][2] Tooby received his Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Harvard University in 1989 and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In 1992, together with Leda Cosmides and Jerome Barkow, Tooby edited The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. Tooby and Cosmides also co-founded and co-direct the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology. Tooby is currently working on a book on the evolution of sexual reproduction and genetic systems.[3] Selected publications[edit] JOHN TOOBY - (Build 20100722150226)
John Tooby JOHN TOOBY is the founder of the field of Evolutionary Psychology.
Machine Super Intelligence - Shane Legg on AI [UKH+] (3/12) - (Build 20100722150226) Shane Legg (ShaneLegg) on Twitter - (Build 20100722150226)... Accelerating Future » Shane Legg on Singularity Summit 2009 - (Build 20100722150226) Shane Legg has some thoughts on the Summit. I was able to talk to him for about 15 minutes at a party before the Summit. Unfortunately I missed his spiel about which AGI approaches are most promising. On the way out, I picked up Shane’s doctoral thesis, Machine Super Intelligence.
I saw in Anders’ summary of the event that he bought it too. I’ve just made it through the first 36 pages and already it has presented several important points that I thought were unique. In the conclusion of the first chapter, Shane writes, “Although this chapter provides only a short treatment of the complex topic of intelligence, for a work on artificial intelligence to devote more than a couple paragraphs to the topic is rare. Information Processing & Physical Intelligence in Nanomachines t. Singularity Hub - (Build 20100722150226) Regeneration: stem cells and beyond - Google Books - (Build 20100722150226)
Mouse sheds light on regeneration - (Build 20100722150226) Regeneration - the ability to recreate lost or damaged cells, tissues, organs or even limbs - has a limited capacity in mammals.
While skin and hair cells constantly renew themselves, unlike a newt, if a human loses a leg, there is no second chance. But the discovery of a strain of mouse, the Murphy Roths Large (MRL), with remarkable regenerative capabilities has opened up the possibility that those properties could be transferred to other mammals. Professor Ellen Heber-Katz, a scientist from the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, US, was part of the way through an immunological study when she first stumbled across the MRL mouse's amazing abilities.
She was looking at the effects of a drug, and had marked the mice that had received the drug by punching a small hole in their ear to distinguish them from those who had not. "I went upstairs and I looked in the cage, but none of the mice were marked," she said. Digit regrowth The MRL mouse has even been shown to have some digit regrowth. Ellen Heber-Katz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226) Ellen Heber-Katz is professor at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia.
She participated in the research of the Murphy Roths Large (MRL).[1] Education[edit] University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI B.A. 1969 Medical MicrobiologyUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, WI M.S.1972 ImmunologyUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Ph.D. 1976 Immunology Research Experience[edit] 1969-1972 M.S., University of Wisconsin (under supervision of Dr. Lance Becker - (Build 20100722150226) Lance B. Becker - Penn Cardiovascular Institute Member - (Build 20100722150226) Lance B. Becker, MD - (Build 20100722150226) Profile for Ramez Naam - (Build 20100722150226)
Ramez Naam: MAPS: Studying the Use of Psychedelics - (Build 20100722150226) Ramez Naam is the author of More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, is a non-profit research and education organization.
They act as a catalyst for rigorous scientific research into the risks and benefits of psychedelics – obtaining funding, designing pilot studies, giving researchers forums to discuss their work, and helping to obtain regulatory approval. Among other things, they’re working on two FDA approved studies of the clinical use of MDMA (“ecstasy”). The first study is looking at the use of MDMA to help victims of sexual or physical abuse recover from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Recently MAPS added soldiers with PTSD to this study. In a world where government agencies routinely distort the risks of certain drugs, it’s a pleasure to see research looking at their possible benefits. Ramez Naam biography, plus links to book reviews and excerpts. - (Build 20100722150226) Ramez Naam Biography Ramez Naam helped develop two of the most widely used pieces of software in the world: Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook.
Ramez Naam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226) Ramez Naam is a professional technologist and science fiction writer.
He was involved in the development of widely used software products such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. His last role at Microsoft was as a Partner Group Program Manager in Search Relevance for Live Search. More Than Human by Ramez Naam - (Build 20100722150226) Ramez Naam - (Build 20100722150226) CrunchBase Profile - (Build 20100722150226) LinkedIn - (Build 20100722150226)
Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction? The fate of the human species depends on AI (Artificial Intelligence) entities far smarter than us and who aren't prone to wipe out or enslave us.
That is one of the topics to be discussed by luminaries in the AI world at the Singularity Summit 2007 held at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco September 8-9. I spoke with Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence about his idea of Friendly AI and the challenges to achieving self-reflective AI systems far beyond the capacity of human intelligence.
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky - (Build 20100722150226) Yehuda Yudkowsky - (Build 20100722150226) Background for non-transhumanists: Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death. Death is an extremely difficult technical problem, to be attacked with biotech and nanotech and other technological means.
I do not tell a tale of the land called Future, nor state as a fact that humanity will someday be free of death - I have no magical ability to see through time. This is an email message I sent to three transhumanist mailing lists, and a collection of emails I then received, in November of 2004. Update, at bottom, added May 2005. Dennis Bray: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle - (Build 20100722150226) Dennis Bray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226) Dennis Bray is an active emeritus professor at University of Cambridge. His group is also part of the Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology. After a first career in Neurobiology, working on cell growth and movement, Dennis Bray moved in Cambridge to develop computational models of cell signaling, in particular in relation to bacterial chemotaxis. On November 3, 2006, he was awarded the Microsoft European Science Award for his work on chemotaxis of E. coli.[1][2]
Dennis Bray - (Build 20100722150226) Emeritus Professor (active) Tel: +44 (0)1223 333771, Fax: +44 (0)1223 333786, E-mail: db10009@cam.ac.uk Bacterial Chemotaxis: Using Computers to Represent Biology The set of biochemical reactions by which an E. coli bacterium detects and responds to distant sources of attractant or repellent molecules is probably the simplest and best understood example of a cell-signalling pathway. The pathway has been saturated genetically and all of its protein components have been isolated, measured biochemically and their atomic structures determined. We have used detailed computer simulations, tied to experimental data, to ask how the pathway works as an integrated unit.
We found that the physical location of molecular components within the molecular jungle of the cell interior is crucial for an understanding of their function. Please see the comp-cell website for further information, downloadable programs, and list of publications. Dennis Bray's Cyberplace - (Build 20100722150226) Dendritic Darwinism - (Build 20100722150226) Behavior and Our Brain - Mysteries of the Brain - Terry Sejnowski - Brain, Behavior, Neuroscience, Sejnowski - sciencestage.com Medicine - (Build 20100722150226) Terry Sejnowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226) Terrence Joseph Sejnowski (born 1947) is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is the Francis Crick Professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory.
His research in neural networks and computational neuroscience has been pioneering. Sejnowski is also Professor of Biological Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Neurosciences, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Director of the Institute for Neural Computation. In 2004 he was named the Francis Crick Professor and the Director of the Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational Biology at the Salk Institute.
Biography[edit] Sejnowski received a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984 from the National Science Foundation. Work[edit] His research in neural networks and computational neuroscience has been pioneering. Institute - Faculty & Research - Faculty - Terrence J. Sejnowski - (Build 20100722150226) "My goal is to discover the principles linking brain mechanisms and behavior. My laboratory uses both experimental and modeling techniques to study the biophysical properties of neurons and synapses, the sites at which neurons connect with each other, as well as the population dynamics of large networks of neurons. " Terry Sejnowski - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com - (Build 20100722150226)
All-Nighters is an exploration of insomnia, sleep and the nocturnal life. Demis Hassabis: Executive Profile & Biography - BusinessWeek - (Build 20100722150226) Demis Hassabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226) Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a British computer game designer, artificial intelligence programmer, neuroscientist and world-class games player.[4][3][5][6][7][1][8][9][10][11] LinkedIn - (Build 20100722150226) Demis Hassabis - Evil Planet - The Evil Genius Fansite - (Build 20100722150226) Foundation Bios: Demis Hassabis - (Build 20100722150226) Brian Litt and Brain-Computer Interfaces: Past, Present and Future - (Build 20100722150226) Department of Neurology Faculty - (Build 20100722150226) Home - (Build 20100722150226) Inc. - Company - (Build 20100722150226)
Company Overview Yantric (formerly Haptic Technologies) was founded in 2000 as a spin-off from the MIT Touch Lab. We draw on the very best research in human and machine haptics, as well as in simulation and analysis, and convert these technologies into products and services for commercial use. Management Team Dr. Mandayam Srinivasan, Ph.D., Founder and President, Yantric Inc. Dr. Dr. Haptic Projects & Papers - Sensable - (Build 20100722150226) Welcome to 3D Systems Geomagic Technical Support. Smithsonian Magazine - (Build 20100722150226) Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT - (Build 20100722150226) MIT Touch Lab - (Build 20100722150226) Mandayam Srinivasan - (Build 20100722150226) Mind and Hand in the Touch Lab haptics with Mandayam A. Srinivasan (this is an expanded online version of the interview appearing in the print copy of RLE at MIT) 2003 February Issue 2 RLE: First of all, how did it feel to have the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,Tony Blair, reference your work in RLE during a major technology policy speech last November?
Steve Mann; Personal Web Page - (Build 20100722150226) Random disorganized thoughts on WearComp.org, WearCam.org, UTWCHI, funtain and Steve Mann's Personal Web Page/research - (Build 20100722150226) Steve Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226) Steven Mann (born 1962) is a researcher and inventor best known for his work on computational photography, particularly wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging. Early life and education[edit] He is also General Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, Associate Editor of IEEE Technology and Society, is a licensed Professional Engineer, and Senior Member of the IEEE.[6] Career[edit] Mann is a tenured professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with cross-appointments to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Faculty of Forestry, at the University of Toronto, and is a Professional Engineer licensed through Professional Engineers Ontario.
He is also General Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society and Associate Editor of IEEE Technology and Society.[6] Ideas and inventions[edit] Many of Mann's inventions pertain to the field of computational photography. Anonequity project[edit] Prof. Steve Mann - (Build 20100722150226) IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society.
The Multiverse According to Ben - (Build 20100722150226) Ben Goertzel - Google Search - (Build 20100722150226) Ben Goertzel (bengoertzel) on Twitter - (Build 20100722150226)... Ben Goertzel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226) Ben Goertzel (born December 8, 1966, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC, which is a privately held software company, and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC, which is a company that provides advanced AI for bioinformatic data analysis (especially microarray and SNP data); Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; Scientific Advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Advisor to the Singularity University; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series, an American author and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence.
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