• ConnectomeViewer – Multi-Modal Multi-Level Network and Neuroimaging Visualization and Analysis

    Updated: 2010-05-25 03:29:22
    Two neat tools concerned with the “connectome” (i.e. the pattern of connections in the nervous system): Semantic wiki: http://www.connectome.ch/wiki/Main_Page Desktop viewer: http://connectomeviewer.org/viewer “Multi-Modal Multi-Level Network and Neuroimaging Visualization and Analysis” (screencasts)

  • Allen Institute for Brain Science adds human brain data

    Updated: 2010-05-24 19:48:33
    Expression data is now available for over 60K gene probes over the entire human brain. Click here to access this monster data set! More info after the jump. Press release: Dear Colleague, I am writing to let you know that we have just launched our first data set mapping gene expression across an adult human brain.   As with all [...]

  • Google Predict

    Updated: 2010-05-20 16:25:57
    Slashdot points out Google Predict. I’m not privy to the details, but this has the potential to be extremely useful, as in many applications simply having an easy mechanism to apply existing learning algorithms can be extremely helpful. This differs goalwise from MLcomp—instead of public comparisons for research purposes, it’s about private utilization [...]

  • Some of my augmented reality domains are up for grabs

    Updated: 2010-05-12 14:21:13
    I'm considering selling a few of my augmented reality domains and intend to keep prices fair. I want to see them go to deserving individuals and startups.

  • Big Dog: rough-terrain robot

    Updated: 2010-05-12 04:25:04
    Movie of a load-bearing dog-like robot that can’t be kicked over, that can walk in the woods up a hill, sometimes recover from slipping on ice, walk over a pile of concrete blocks, and run. http://www.bostondynamics.com/dist/BigDog.wmv Here’s the BigDog project page. I know we already posted a link to a video of this amazing robot, but that link [...]

  • Aggregation of estimators, sparsity in high dimension and computational feasibility

    Updated: 2010-05-10 21:04:22
    (I’m channeling for Jean-Yves Audibert here, with some minor tweaking for clarity.) Since Nemirovski’s Saint Flour lecture notes, numerous researchers have studied the following problem in least squares regression: predict as well as (MS) the best of d given functions (like in prediction with expert advice; model = finite set of d functions) (C) [...]

  • When Will We Be Able to Build Brains Like Ours?

    Updated: 2010-05-10 20:10:42
    When Will We Be Able to Build Brains Like Ours? – by Terry Sejnowski – scientificamerican.com Terry Sejnowski discusses the recent ‘catfight’ that erupted between Dharmenda Modha of IBM and Henry Markram of the EPFL over claims from Modha that his group had successfully modeled the brain of a cat. Dr. Sejnowski provides a summary of the [...]

  • Blog posts tagged with artificial on Nature Network

    Updated: 2010-05-05 04:06:19
    Jump to main content Jump to navigation nature.com homepage Login Search nature network Home Forums Groups Blogs All blogs Recent Posts Recent Comments Tags People Hubs Q A Your Workbench Blogs artificial jump to list of posts tagged with artificial : Title You are what you drink comic strip : Date 30 Sep tember 2008 : Blog Stripped Science Then I am the terminator Other items tagged with : Artificial Posts You are what you drink comic strip Sitewide more items tagged artificial Subscribe Blog Tools Search blogs Search blogs Look for artificial on Connotea del.icio.us Technorati ADVERTISMENT About Nature Network FAQ Feedback Community guidelines Privacy Terms and conditions Legal notice 2010 Nature Publishing Group , a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited . All Rights . Reserved

  • Blog posts tagged with artificial on Nature Network

    Updated: 2010-05-05 04:06:19
    Jump to main content Jump to navigation nature.com homepage Login Search nature network Home Forums Groups Blogs All blogs Recent Posts Recent Comments Tags People Hubs Q A Your Workbench Blogs artificial jump to list of posts tagged with artificial : Title You are what you drink comic strip : Date 30 Sep tember 2008 : Blog Stripped Science Then I am the terminator Other items tagged with : Artificial Posts You are what you drink comic strip Sitewide more items tagged artificial Subscribe Blog Tools Search blogs Search blogs Look for artificial on Connotea del.icio.us Technorati ADVERTISMENT About Nature Network FAQ Feedback Community guidelines Privacy Terms and conditions Legal notice 2010 Nature Publishing Group , a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited . All Rights . Reserved

  • Questions and Answers Nature Network

    Updated: 2010-05-05 04:06:18
    Jump to main content Jump to navigation nature.com homepage Login Search nature network Home Forums Groups People Blogs Hubs Q A Your Workbench Questions Answers Featured Question Answers Search all Questions : Answers Featured Questions Ask a Question Author Question Answers Likes Nature Network 10 hours ago Asked To : ALL zoology : Most endangered species What are the top 10 most endangered species in the world 2 Answer 3 Like Featured Answers Show all Answers Author Answers Likes Lou Woodley 10 hours ago 2 Like Ask a Question Latest Question Answers Author Question Answers Likes Nature Network 10 hours ago Asked To : ALL publishing : Accessing scientific data What scientific data sets are open to the public 1 Answer 1 Like Nature Network 10 hours ago Asked To : ALL earth sciences :

  • Workbench Nature Network

    Updated: 2010-05-05 04:06:17
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  • Home Nature.com

    Updated: 2010-05-05 04:06:15
    Jump to main content Jump to navigation nature.com homepage Publications A-Z index Browse by subject My account E-alert sign up Register Subscribe Login Search Advanced search NPG Copyright Nature Publishing Group is a trading name of Macmillan Publishers Ltd , and Nature America Inc . a wholly-owned US subsidiary of Macmillan Publishers . Ltd Related : Links Reprints and permissions Top About NPG Contact NPG RSS web feeds Help Privacy policy Legal notice Accessibility statement Terms Nature News Nature jobs Nature Asia Nature Education : Search 2010 Nature Publishing Group , a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited . All Rights . Reserved partner of AGORA , HINARI , OARE , INASP , CrossRef and COUNTER

  • CI Fellows program renewed

    Updated: 2010-04-28 23:01:26
    Lev Reyzin points out the CI Fellows program is renewed. CI Fellows are essentially NSF funded computer science postdocs for universities and industry research labs. I’ve been lucky and happy to have Lev visit me for a year under last year’s program, so I strongly recommend participating if it suits you. As with [...]

  • MLcomp: a website for objectively comparing ML algorithms

    Updated: 2010-04-15 03:37:17
    Much of the success and popularity of machine learning has been driven by its practical impact. Of course, the evaluation of empirical work is an integral part of the field. But are the existing mechanisms for evaluating algorithms and comparing results good enough? We (Percy and Jake) believe there are currently a number of shortcomings: Incomplete [...]

  • Rebuttal of the Chinese Room Argument (10/14/2007)

    Updated: 2010-04-12 00:47:51
    The Library of Alexandria Rebuttal of the Chinese Room Argument Jim Carnicelli's AI Blog Alexandria Home Up One Level ò Sunday , 10 14 2007 Rebuttal of the Chinese Room Argument Back to blog home Listen to an audio version Notify me of new entries Subscribe to a full RSS feed of this blog While discussing the subject of Artificial Intelligence in another forum , someone brought up the old Chinese Room argument against the possibility of AI . My wife suggested I post my response to the point , as it seems a good rebuttal of the argument . itself If you're unfamiliar with the CR argument , there's a great entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy It summarizes as : follows The argument centers on a thought experiment in which someone who knows only English sits alone in a room

  • Topics in Machine Vision (9/21/2005)

    Updated: 2010-04-12 00:47:35
    The Library of Alexandria Topics in Machine Vision Jim Carnicelli's AI Blog Alexandria Home Up One Level ò Wednesday , 9 21 2005 Topics in Machine Vision Back to blog home Listen to an audio version Notify me of new entries Subscribe to a full RSS feed of this blog Once again , I've forgotten to announce a sub-site I created recently that I call Topics in Machine Vision click here back on August 28th . Unlike my earlier Introduction to Machine Vision it does not set out to give a broad overview of the subject matter . Instead , it's geared toward the researcher with at least some familiarity with the subject . Also , whereas I intended the introduction to stand complete on its own , Topics is more organic , meaning that I'll continue to add content to it as time passes . Knowing that this

  • Machine vision: Hierarchy of regions (6/9/2005)

    Updated: 2010-04-12 00:47:20
    : The Library of Alexandria Machine vision : Hierarchy of regions Jim Carnicelli's AI Blog Alexandria Home Up One Level ò Thursday , 6 9 2005 Machine vision : Hierarchy of regions Back to blog home Listen to an audio version Notify me of new entries Subscribe to a full RSS feed of this blog Following is another in my series of ad hoc journal entries I've been keeping of my thoughts on machine vision . One thing that most of us in MV don't want to admit is that we arbitrarily set thresholds for distinguishing where one thing ends and another begins . I don't think we work that way , per se . I'd like to see edge- or color-blob-finding techniques having varying thresholds . One use would be in finding large regions with high thresholds , then using ever narrower thresholds to find the

  • Machine vision: cost-effective action (6/9/2005)

    Updated: 2010-04-12 00:47:19
    : The Library of Alexandria Machine vision : cost-effective action Jim Carnicelli's AI Blog Alexandria Home Up One Level ò Thursday , 6 9 2005 Machine vision : cost-effective action Back to blog home Listen to an audio version Notify me of new entries Subscribe to a full RSS feed of this blog Following is another in my series of ad hoc journal entries I've been keeping of my thoughts on machine vision . One thing that seems to dog many MV techniques is how slow or otherwise resource-hungry they are . I'm realizing that one thing that seems a must is a set of basic vision tools that allow for trading time for effectiveness . For example , given a whole image , the agent should be able to focus on a small portion like your own fovea does instead of trying to analyze the entire image . Also ,

  • Neural network demo (11/2/2004)

    Updated: 2010-04-12 00:47:06
    I learned of artificial neural networks sometime around 1991. The concept has intrigued me ever since, but it was not until early last week that I finally got around to making my own. I decided to write an introduction to neural nets from my novice perspective and make the sample program I wrote, along with source code, available for other people to experiment with. Click here to check it out.

  • SIAI LinkedIn Group

    Updated: 2010-04-10 01:55:18
    I’ve created a group for the Singularity Institute on LinkedIn, to encourage professional networking among SIAI supporters and staff. Consider joining if you are an SIAI supporter and use LinkedIn.

  • Chalmers: “The argument for a singularity is one that we should take seriously”

    Updated: 2010-04-09 20:56:08
    Here is a quote from the Chalmers paper that I linked yesterday: One might think that the singularity would be of great interest to academic philosophers, cognitive scientists, and artificial intelligence researchers. In practice, this has not been the case. Good was an eminent academic, but his article was largely unappreciated at the time. The subsequent [...]

  • Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies: Call for Papers

    Updated: 2010-04-09 19:59:15
    Amnon Eden, an organizer of the European conference on Computing And Philosophy, recently sent us this call for papers. Track in: 8th European conference on Computing And Philosophy — ECAP 2010 Technische Universität München 4–6 October 2010 Important dates: * Submission (extended abstracts): 7 May 2010 * Notification: 9 May 2010 [...]

  • David Chalmers on Singularity, Intelligence Explosion

    Updated: 2010-04-08 20:44:41
    Recently, David Chalmers announced that he was posting a new paper based on his Singularity Summit 2010 talk: “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis”. In his announcement, Chalmers notes, “I’m still an amateur on these topics and any feedback would be appreciated.” You can also watch a video of Chalmers’ Summit talk.

  • artificial on Nature Network

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:30:55
    nature.com Login Main navigation Global Nature Network home forums groups people blogs hubs Please log in Tag : artificial jump to list of posts tagged with artificial Tags are a way of labelling content on Nature Network . This page shows you all the latest items on Nature Network- be they events , news , forum discussions or blog entries that have been tagged as artificial Because tagging cuts across the various sections of Nature Network , you can easily stay up-to-date with the latest highlights in a particular subject area on Nature . Network Jump to results Results Result : pages 1 2 Next By content By date Entries are ordered by the date they were added to the . Network 26 Feb ruary 2010 Users Roulette Smith 17 Feb ruary 2010 Users Carlos Gershenson 03 Feb ruary 2010 Groups Agent Technology 20 Jan uary 2010 Groups Cognitive Science 06 Jan uary 2010 Users Yuri Quintana 13 Aug ust 2009 Users Serge Patlavskiy 28 Jul y 2009 Topics Pattern Recognition Principle for a Theory of Mind 12 Jul y 2009 Topics Play with neural networks Sharky Neural Network released 01 Jun e 2009 Users Graeme Smith 25 Apr il 2009 Users Jonathan Blakes Jump to results Results Result : pages 1 2 Next

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