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Submission + - DARPA Testing Numenta's Brain Tech

Submitted by lousyd on Thursday October 11, 2007 @01:38PM

lousyd writes: CNN Money DARPA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have given $4.9 million to Lockheed Martin to develop an image recognition system that will be used to scan satellite images and photographs for familiar objects. Called Object Recognition via Brain-Inspired Technology (ORBIT), the system will fuse commercial airborne EO and LIDAR sensor data into a three-dimensional, photorealistic model of the landscape. The brains of the system, so to speak, will be Numenta's Hierarchical Temporal Memory technology, modelled on the technology growing inside human heads. The system is expected to increase image analysts' productivity by 100 times.

Submission + - John Gilmore donates $15,000 to Freenet Project

Submitted by on Friday August 18, 2006 @10:32AM

lousyd writes: Civil libertarian John Gilmore has donated $15,000 to the Freenet Project to support ongoing development of the Freenet software. The Freenet Project is currently working on release 0.7, a complete re-write of previous versions of Freenet. The new network is a scalable darknet, promising more than any other currently available network model. Gilmore's contribution comes via The San Francisco Foundation.

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