“Vision Weekend” acquires peripheral vision

Nanotechnology “unconference” now open to general public.
By Christine Peterson Founder and Vice President, Public Policy: Foresight: Nanotech Institute
Registration for Foresight’s Nov. 3-4 Vision Weekend focused on nanotechnology and other advanced technologies — traditionally restricted to Foresight Senior Associates — is being opened to the general public this year as an experiment. Space is [...]

Robert Medeksza wins 2007 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence

Loebner 2007 Winner
Posted: Sunday, October 21, 2007
by:  Sarah, Conversation, Deception and Intelligence
Congratulations to Robert Medeksza, his system won the 2007 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence today.
Robert is the creator of Ultra Hal, which can be accessed here:
http://www.zabaware.com/

Noah Duncan’s system came second and Rollo Carpenter’s third.
Transcripts will be available shortly on the Loebner Prize home [...]

autonomous killing machines

Engineering Politics

What killer robots say about the state of social activism.
Illustrations by: Justin Gabbard
Words by: Christopher Csikszentmihalyi
“Among the many changes in U.S. policy after 9/11 was one that went unnoticed by everyone except a few geeks: The military quietly reversed its longstanding position on the role of robots in battlefields, and now embraces [...]

a rose by any other name or internal war in Corcyra?

“One great way to start a fight in a crowded Silicon Valley cocktail party (and there are a lot of them these days) is to mention Web 3.0.” John Markoff
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What Is The Best Name For It?
by: Brad Feld Feld Thoughts / Oct. 20, 2007
“John Markoff suggests there is a looming battle of [...]

seeing the web back on itself as a complex adaptive system

 
October 21, 2007
Web Science and Fractals
“We are exploring the essence of what it means to be web-like: connected, decentralized, fractal and tangled. Is it time for us to plan more? Can we start to understand the web itself as a complex system?” Tim Berners-Lee
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Initial seminar of the fall [...]

Twine — “knowledge networking”

 
Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App?
 

 

Written by Richard MacManus / October 18, 2007

“Founder Nova Spivack showed me a demo today … Spivack told me that Twine aims to bring a usable and scalable interface to the long-promised dream of the Semantic Web.”
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“On Friday Radar Networks is announcing a new Semantic Web [...]