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Month: December 2009

Ray Solomonoff, 1926-2009

Ray Solomonoff, inventor of algorithmic probability and one of the founding fathers of AI, died December 7 after a brief illness. I met Ray at the AI@50 conference at Dartmouth, given to celebrate the first AI conference and honor the five then surviving participants. He was very friendly, still sharp and insightful, and we had… Continue reading Ray Solomonoff, 1926-2009

Quantum propulsion?

From the TR Physics Arxiv blog: The quantum vacuum has fascinated physicists ever since Hendrik Casimir and Dirk Polder suggested in 1948 that it would exert a force on a pair of narrowly separated conducting plates. Their idea was eventually confirmed when the force was measured in 1997. Just how to exploit this force is… Continue reading Quantum propulsion?

Foresight 2010: register now for discounts!

Our conference is coming up January 16-17.  Conference page and registration info here. Time is running out for registration and lodging discounts! I put together the slate of speakers for this conference by inviting the speakers I personally wanted to hear, talking about AI and nanotech and how they will change the shape of the… Continue reading Foresight 2010: register now for discounts!

Nanocircuitry

From Physorg: “This body of work illustrates that carbon nanotube transistor technology has moved beyond the realm of scientific discovery and into engineering research,” said H.-S. Philip Wong, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford and a co-author of the paper. “We are now able to construct devices and build circuits on a wafer scale… Continue reading Nanocircuitry

What Foresight is about

It’s a good thing we got Nanodot moved onto a new server recently — we just had a huge spike in readers.  This is due to one recent post, Some Historical Perspective, being picked up and spread around the climate-change blogosphere.  Of the pageviews we have had over the past three months, 10% of them… Continue reading What Foresight is about

2009 winter H+ out

H+ magazine is available online:  my article, Singularity: nanotech or AI, is on page 82.  enjoy!  

Intelligence and the Chinese Room

Michael A. writes: I support the consensus science on intelligence for the sake of promoting truth, but I also must admit that it especially concerns me that the modern denial of the reality of different intelligence levels will cause ethicists and the public to ignore the risks from human-equivalent artificial intelligence. After all, if all… Continue reading Intelligence and the Chinese Room

Air jet manipulation

One of the fastest-growing general areas of technology, of which robotics is just a part, is the ability to control things using increasingly sophisticated theory and algorithms, and the ability to run non-trivial simulation models as part of the control process. Consider this use of compressed air jets:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkhMCCOHFmM From the report at IEEE… Continue reading Air jet manipulation

Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines

Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines. from Eurekalert: Ames Laboratory researchers discover repulsive Casimir effect Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation of famous Casimir forces that took place at the U.S. Department of… Continue reading Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines

Nanopants, redux

Dexter Johnson writes, “What Should We Call the (Nano)technology in Your Stain-resistant Pants?” …  the competition for ownership of the term “nanotechnology” that seems to persist between the adherents to MNT, as exemplified by the Foresight Institute, and those who use the term to acknowledge developments in manipulating and exploiting structures that have at least… Continue reading Nanopants, redux

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