http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/ Thinking Machine...? Copyright 2008 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:50:06 +0530 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say. The galaxies and gas bubbles, called Lyman alpha blobs, are aligned... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/08/newfound_blob_i.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/08/newfound_blob_i.html Space Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:50:06 +0530 With everything else that's happening in the world today, debates about whether humanity should embrace as yet nonexistent technologies that could enhance our physical and intellectual abilities and someday make us ``more than human" may seem frivolous. Nonetheless, a debate... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/07/when_humans_tra.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/07/when_humans_tra.html Evolution Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:03:19 +0530 Stephen Hawking is best known for thinking about time, space, and those teratoid trash mashers known as black holes. But in a recent talk in Hong Kong, the famous physicist digressed from his usual subject matter to tell the audience... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/07/the_geometry_of.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/07/the_geometry_of.html Space Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:29:34 +0530 Biology is now in the early stages of an historic transition to an information science, while also gaining the tools to reprogram the ancient information systems of life. Few of us go more than a few months without changing the... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/reprogramming_b.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/reprogramming_b.html Evolution Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:23:57 +0530 What ever happened to the virtual reality, 3D world of the web? Back in the late 90s, all the hype was about VRML—Virtual Reality Markup Language—which would turn the web into an immersive environment that you'd maneuver around to get... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/x3d.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/x3d.html Future Technologies Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:35:25 +0530 An artificial touch sensor as sensitive as a human fingertip has been developed by US scientists. One day it could let surgeons remotely "feel" tissue through an endoscope and help robots pour drinks without spilling a drop. The sensor is... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/touch_sensor.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/touch_sensor.html Future Technologies Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:38:13 +0530 IN 1981 Kenji Urada, a 37-year-old Japanese factory worker, climbed over a safety fence at a Kawasaki plant to carry out some maintenance work on a robot. In his haste, he failed to switch the robot off properly. Unable to... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/trust_me_im_a_r.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/trust_me_im_a_r.html Robotics Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:32:13 +0530 Scientists have created miniature, insect-like robots that can change the behavior of cockroaches. The devices work by at first fooling the bugs into believing the devices are fellow roaches and then leading the insects away from darkness into light,... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/tiny_robots_con.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/tiny_robots_con.html Evolution Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:23:37 +0530 Robots have long fascinated humanity. Movies like "Artificial Intelligence: AI" (2001) and "I, Robot" (2004) portrait possible futures where all your mundane chores are performed by a mechanical life form. Just imagine not ever cleaning the windows, doing the dishes,... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/irobot_scooba_e.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/06/irobot_scooba_e.html Robotics Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:11:42 +0530 Physicists have drawn up blueprints for a cloaking device that could, in theory, render objects invisible. Light normally bounces off an object's surface making it visible to the human eye. But John Pendry and colleagues at Imperial College London, UK,... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/05/the_real_cloaki.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/05/the_real_cloaki.html Evolution Sun, 28 May 2006 08:40:13 +0530 Just a small interesting incident to share; I received three samples of coolant from one of our clients, out of the three two were dark and strong because of higher % of coolant in water and the third one was... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/05/strong.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/05/strong.html About me Thu, 25 May 2006 19:26:30 +0530 Genetically modified foods have caused no end of anxiety and distrust. But not genetically modified shirts. Why? Readers may imagine the reason is that there is no such thing as a genetically modified shirt, and they would be half right.... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/05/frankencotton.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/05/frankencotton.html Genetic Algorithms Wed, 17 May 2006 18:55:28 +0530 More than $4 million in equipment upgrades will shine 100 million pixels on Iowa State University's six-sided virtual reality room. That's twice the number of pixels lighting up any virtual reality room in the world and 16 times the... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/05/most_realistic.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/05/most_realistic.html Future Technologies Sun, 14 May 2006 18:45:09 +0530 Cosmologists claim to have found evidence that yet another fundamental constant of nature, called mu, may have changed over the last 12 billion years. If confirmed, the result could force some physicists to radically rethink their theories. It would also... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/05/changing_consta.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/05/changing_consta.html Evolution Sun, 07 May 2006 08:16:36 +0530 The piSight™ virtual reality (VR) system is the world's most immersive 3D virtual reality display, ideal for numerous applications including virtual prototyping, training, data mining and more. The product of nearly a decade of research supported by NASA and... http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/04/pisight.html http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge/archives/2006/04/pisight.html Future Technologies Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:01:14 +0530