Researchers at the University of Alberta developed a computer program named “Polaris” that was designed to compete against two of the sharpest poker players in the world (Phil Laak and Ali Eslami). The Computer managed to win at least one round but finally it lost. Nevertheless this was the first victory of a poker bot [...]
Peter Norvig, director of Google Research, talks about future trends and outstanding problems in search. These are the directions of impact: The two biggest projects are machine translation and the speech project. Translation and speech went all the way from one or two people working on them to, now, live systems. In general, we think [...]
A life-size, robotic fly has taken flight at Harvard University. Weighing only 60 milligrams, with a wingspan of three centimeters, the tiny robot’s movements are modeled on those of a real fly (Technology Review). Credit: Robert Wood As long as they don’t try to reconstruct mosquitos I’ll stay impressed due to such developments
This question dealing with (intellectual) property, patents, trademarks, copyrights and -lefts as well as natural and artificial scarcity concerns me time and again. Credit: Uni Basel If you discuss it with someone from the pharma industry you tend to think that world wouldn’t go round any further if you abolish patents. Contrawise some people promote [...]
iPhone – you can’t away from this phenomenon during the last few months. If you google the word you’ll get about 204.000.000 results. So I don’t deem it inevitable to further describe it’s pros and cons at lenght. But one article quickened my interest because it examines the iPhone from a different perspective: The iPhone’s [...]
