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Philip Moore Interview
Posted on April 12, 2013 |Philip Moore is a researcher at Birmingham City University, in UK. His interests include: the development of intelligent context-aware systems, data fusion with intelligent context processing, ontology-based context modelling implemented in intelligent event-driven rule-based systems, the development of data structures for context-aware systems to enable... -
Juan Manuel Orduna Interview
Posted on April 12, 2013 |Juan Manuel Orduna is head of the The group of Networks and Virtual Environments at the University of Valencia in Spain. His research interests concern High Performance Computing, Population Dynamics Visualization, Mobile Computing, Augmented Reality, and Simulation. -
From Complex Living Systems to Smarter Computers
Posted on March 26, 2013 |The European collaborative research Project “SWAM-ORGAN” tries to understand complex living systems such as cells making an organ, or the spatially-controlled growing of a plant, and to apply these principles to technological systems, in particular more intelligent and adaptable robot swarms. The Project, with a... -
4-D printing: “you design something, you print it, it evolves”
Posted on February 27, 2013 |There are 3-D printers that build things up, adding one sliver of plastic at a time, and 3-D mills that tear things down, grinding away one small chunk at a time. But Skylar Tibbits today offered a very provocative alternative: technology for 3-D printing where... -
HENRi: alone, aware, alive
Posted on February 27, 2013 |Usually machines become sentient only after their human makers have given them bodies (we’re looking at you Cylons), but in the new short film HENRi, the awareness comes first, then the arms and legs. A Kickstarter-funded short film by director Eli Sasich that also stars Superman’s Margot Kidder, HENRi... -
Self‐* Challenges
Posted on January 1, 2013 |1. To disambiguate the awareness concepts. Ramana Reddy 2. Create collective embodied systems where self-healing emerges in response to adverse internal/external conditions. Jon Timmis 3. Evolving the step from environmental awareness to self-awareness. Thomas Schmickl 4. To build better models to understand the basic principles... -
A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You
Posted on November 27, 2012 |The Pentagon wants to make perfectly clear that every time one of its flying robots releases its lethal payload, it’s the result of a decision made by an accountable human being in a lawful chain of command. Human rights groups and nervous citizens fear that... -
Ichiro Satoh Interview
Posted on September 27, 2012 |Ichiro Satoh is a professor at the Information Systems Architecture Research Division of the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan. His main research areas concern Distributed Objects, Mobile Agents, Concurrency Theory, Naming Service for Information Appliances. -
Mirko Viroli Interview
Posted on September 24, 2012 |Mirko Viroli is an associate professor at the University of Bologna, in Italy. His main research interests concern: computational models and languages, and their relationship with software infrastructures and system analysis and simulation; pervasive computing, self-organisation, coordination, and object-orientation. He is involved in the SAPERE... -
What counts as a conscious thinking machine?
Posted on September 11, 2012 |HOW close are we to creating a machine that thinks like us? It’s difficult to say: consciousness is the slipperiest aspect of machine intelligence. Some foresee radically superhuman AI arriving before the middle of the century. Others remain sceptical because although most AI systems are...
