artificial intelligence advancing science in the global war on AIDS

 Child at vigil for AIDS victims in Ngwenya, Swaziland. Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters
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Researchers Discover Potential Targets for HIV Vaccines
GEN News Highlights
“An essential component of the HIV-1 molecular machinery responsible for infecting cells, the third variable loop (V3), consists of functionally specialized layers, according to investigators at the University of California San Diego Antiviral Research Center.
“The surface [...]

Laboratory for Neuroinformatics — launched by Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept. and General Motors R & D Center

neuroinformatic mapping
GM, Virginia Tech Collaborate to Advance Neuroinformatics
HPC wire
“… Advances in sensing technologies have made exquisite measurements of brain activity possible in the past decade. Using these measurements, computer scientists will now help neuroscientists discover the complex neuronal networks in the brain that result in the actions we take for granted, like reaching for a [...]

if you build it, they may come — artificially intelligent teachers? … a world of students await their teachers

Peruvian students
$1 million grant brings artificial intelligence to schools
Machines like us — Science News
“Imagine a writing teacher being able to assign 24 essays a year to each student in her class — and not having to worry about grading a single one. That’s the promise of a new computer-based writing program that will be rolled [...]

fusing human cognition and AI processing into super awareness

Borg Queen — Dark Frontier

U.S. military fusing human and artificial intelligence
SLATE HUMAN NATURE: SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE
“The U.S. military is funding a project to integrate human with artificial intelligence. Problem: Human brains are superior to computers at visual recognition but inferior at information processing. Solution: human-machine integration. Human component: A soldier or analyst who [...]

if you build it, they may come — artificially intelligent prosthetics

Proprio: artificially intelligent prosthesis
Intelligent prosthetic unveiled: PROPRIO foot can think for itself!
 Medgear
“After I saw an amputee drag himself up Mt.Everest with his prosthetic leg, I knew that the world of prosthesis still has a long ways to go. Although, many would argue that it has come a long ways already. The artificial hands and legs [...]

UCSF team scores at International Genetically Engineered Machine competition

UCSF team
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From High School to International Triumph
UCSF Today  by Wallace Ravven
“They came. They genetically engineered. They conquered.
“After a summer at UCSF working on their own genetic engineering project, six students just out of high school and one undergraduate have just taken one of the top honors in an international competition among universities as familiar as [...]

if you build it, they may come — there’s gold in them thar AI hills!

Prospector
US Gold Will Use DIAGNOS’ Artificial Intelligence Technology to Target Gold, Silver and Copper in North-Central Nevada
Press Release — Market Wire 
 ”… DIAGNOS … a leader in the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and advanced knowledge extraction techniques, announced today that US Gold … will use its technology on a large land area with the purpose [...]

is open-source emerging as a “swarm intelligence” — by distributing sudden solutions without centralized control ?

shadows of sudden change for some software giants ?
Artificial Life, Inc. Announces Support of Google’s Open Source Android Mobile Platform
Trading Markets.com  HONG KONG (PrimeNewswire)
“… Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, Inc. … a leading provider of award-winning mobile 3G technology and applications, today announced their plans to develop new and innovatively designed games and applications for Google’s [...]

thank you Prof. Feigenbaum

AI pioneer Professor Edward Feigenbaum
Artificial intelligence gets real 
Daniel Lyons, Forbes.com
“On a recent visit to the doctor, Edward Feigenbaum had the eerie experience of seeing one of his inventions used in a way he never expected: His 25-year-old concept was being used to diagnose a problem with his own breathing.
“‘It’s using artificial intelligence,’ the doctor patiently [...]

Postsingular — a novel with 20,000 free downloads reported to date

Postsingular by Rudy Rucker
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“Postsingular takes on the question of what will happen after the Singularity—what will happen after computers become as smart as humans and nanotechnology takes on the power of magic?”
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“Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt [...]