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IBM

IBM Eyes Brain-Like Computing 100

Posted by samzenpus from the why-did-you-program-me-to-feel-pain? dept.
schliz writes "IBM's research director John E Kelly III has delivered an academic lecture in Australia, outlining its 'cognitive computing' aims and efforts as the 70-year 'programmable computing' era comes to a close. He spoke about Watson — the 'glimpse' of cognitive computing that beat humans at Jeopardy! in Feb — and efforts to mimic biological neurons and synapses on 'multi-state' chips. Computers that function like brains, he said, are needed to make sense of exascale data centers of the future."

Comment Contact the law firm. (Score 2) 436

by acooks (#37596210) Attached to: Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes

I think everyone should direct their concerns to the law firm. Just make an honest inquiry about avoiding the infringement and litigation. Maybe offer them some free network testing in exchange for not getting sued. Maybe do some testing first as a show of good faith.

Contact the law firm (Niro,Haller and Niro):
Telephone: (312) 236-0733
Facsimile: (312) 236-3137
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft releases next browser IE10 Preview (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has released a new Internet Explorer 10 preview, the second pre-release of Internet Explorer 10 designed to give developers access to the new technologies that Internet Explorer 10 will deliver. The new version includes support for a bunch of new specifications, enabling better support for drag and drop, form validation, positioning of page elements, and more. As with prior preview releases, Microsoft has also provided a number of demo sites to show off new capabilities, and new test cases to demonstrate exact conformance with the HTML5 specifications

Submission + - Robo legs can improve the movement of stroke patie (thehealthage.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The research team in Netherland is using robotic legs in an attempt to improve the movement of stroke patients. The device LOPES or the Lower-extremity Powered ExoSkeleton functions by training the body and mind of a stroke patient to pick up a more natural step.
Data Storage

Submission + - Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive (hothardware.com)

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Although they haven’t been big hits with enthusiasts, Samsung’s solid state drives have been successful due to strong relationships with a number of OEMs, including Apple. With the release of their new SSD 830 Series Solid State Drives, however, Samsung appears ready to make inroads with enthusiasts as well. The SSD 830 tested here is 256GB model, with eight 32GB Samsung NAND flash memory chips, 256MB of Samsung DDR2 SDRAM cache memory, and a new Samsung SSD Controller. The Samsung controller features a 3-ARM core design with support for SATA III 6Gb/s interface speeds. Performance-wise, the Samsung SSD 830 Series drive offered the best Read performance of the group that was tested, even versus the latest SandForce-based SSDs, though the SSD 830 couldn't quite catch SandForce in writes."
NASA

Submission + - 8 big hunks of space gear that returned to Earth (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "With the expected and unwanted return of NASA's 6.5 ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) in the next 48 hours or so, we thought we'd take a look at some of the other large pieces of space equipment that has returned to Earth rather unexpectedly. As a bonus we give you two items that happily were expected to return as well."
Technology

Submission + - Superior Anode For Lithium-Ion Batteries Developed (lbl.gov)

Submitted by RogerRoast
RogerRoast writes: The anode is a critical component for storing energy in lithium-ion batteries. The Berkeley Lab (D.O.E) has designed a new kind of anode that can absorb eight times the lithium of current designs, and has maintained its greatly increased energy capacity after over a year of testing and many hundreds of charge-discharge cycles. According to the research published in Advanced Materials they used a tailored polymer that conducts electricity and binds closely to lithium-storing silicon particles, even as they expand to more than three times their volume during charging and then shrink again during discharge.
Medicine

Submission + - Virus kills breast cancer cells in laboratory (psu.edu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A nondisease-causing virus kills human breast cancer cells in the laboratory, creating opportunities for potential new cancer therapies, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers who tested the virus on three different breast cancer types that represent the multiple stages of breast cancer development.

Adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) is a virus that regularly infects humans but causes no disease. Past studies by the same researchers show that it promotes tumor cell death in cervical cancer cells infected with human papillomavirus. Researchers used an unaltered, naturally occurring version of AAV2 on human breast cancer cells.

Cells have multiple ways of dying. If damage occurs in a healthy cell, the cell turns on production and activation of specific proteins that allow the cell to commit suicide. However, in cancer cells these death pathways often are turned off, while the proteins that allow the cell to divide and multiply are stuck in the "on" position.

One way to fight cancer is to find ways to turn on these death pathways, which is what researchers believe is happening with the AAV2 virus.

In tissue culture dishes in the laboratory, 100 percent of the cancer cells are destroyed by the virus within seven days, with the majority of the cell death proteins activated on the fifth day. In another study, a fourth breast cancer derived cell line, which is the most aggressive, required three weeks to undergo cell death.

Submission + - EA's New User Agreement Bans Lawsuits (ngohq.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Electronic Arts has updated its Terms of Service Agreement for the Origin platform. Following Sony's steps, and taking it even further, EA has added a new clause that prevents users from suing them in both class action and jury trial forms.
Cloud

Submission + - Google: Facebook Is "A Closed Walled Garden"

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Google executive believes that Facebook is becoming "a closed walled garden" and will soon end up like AOL and IBM: it will have to completely change its business in order to survive. Vint Cerf, Google’s chief internet evangelist and the designer of TCP/IP, warns that Facebook’s "closed" architecture means the company will eventually fail to keep up with the public’s desire for the flexibility of an open standard.
Programming

Submission + - Shen 1.7 / Qi Lisp II++ released (google.com)

Submitted by raould
raould writes: If you like advanced functional programming, this is of interest. Shen is a new version of Qi Lisp II. It is designed to support functional programming (and more) across a range of platforms. The first ones targeted are JavaScript, Scheme, and Lisp. Shen makes Qi more portable. Qi is "a language implemented on top of Common Lisp which uses sequent calculus to provide a level of type security whose scope exceeds that of conventional functional languages. Qi combines this with an environment that gives access to pattern-directed functional programming, compiler-compiler technology and logic programming via Prolog. In trials Qi programs often proved to beat hand coded Common Lisp programs both in terms of compactness (lines of code) and speed."

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