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Comment Re:All intelligence is genuine, not artificial. (Score 1) 484

by punee on Monday July 24, 2006 @09:20AM (#15768948) Attached to: NPR Looks to Technological Singularity

That would be Edsger Dijkstra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra/), who considered the whole field/problem of A.I. as lacking ambition and felt that computer science should not aim at emulating human reasoning which is imperfect, but should try to fulfill Leibniz's dream of a "Characteristica Universalis": reasoning as calculus.

NASA Reaffirms Big Bang Theory 313

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 17, 2006 @03:57PM from the kabooom dept.

Peretz writes "NASA has found evidence reinforcing a theory of what took place post-Big Bang and time expansion. They claim: 'Over the course of millions of years, gravity exploited the density differences to create the structure of the universe---stars and galaxies separated by vast voids.' Thereby creating a 'structure' to the universe -- a kiddush cup. '...finds that the first stars---the forebears of all subsequent generations of stars and of life itself---were fully formed remarkably early, only about 400 million years after inflation. This is called the era of reionization, the point when the light from the first stars ionized hydrogen atoms, liberating electrons from the protons.'"

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