Re: [scifinoir2] Smart gadgets may one day anticipate our needs
Brent, such tings have intrigued me for years. Personally, I'm waiting for the computer that so fast and intelligent that, if you suddenly decide that you need to look up something online it will, the moment you boot it up, immediately get online and find the perfect site for your need. Mind you, that'll be the day before Skynet takes control... On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:59 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15450492?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.comnclick_check=1 Smart gadgets may one day anticipate our needs By Steve Johnson sjohn...@mercurynews.com sjohnson%40mercurynews.com Don't be surprised if one day your refrigerator nags you to lose weight, your phone blocks calls it figures you're too stressed to handle and your wisecracking car entertains you with pun-filled one-liners. Within a decade or two, researchers at Silicon Valley companies and elsewhere predict, consumer gadgets will be functioning like hyper-attentive butlers, anticipating and fulfilling people's needs without having to be told. Life would not only be more convenient, it might even last longer: Devices could monitor people's health and step in when needed to help them get better. I think it's inevitable, said Michael Freed, an artificial intelligence specialist and program director at the Menlo Park think tank, SRI International, which has been studying the concept for the military. Noting that some of these gadgets already are being developed, he added, I expect we'll see more soon - a trickle and then a flood.'' The technology propelling this new generation of personal assistants is a combination of sophisticated sensors and carefully tailored computer software. As envisioned, the machines would adjust their own actions to the preferences and needs of an individual, by analyzing data on the person's past actions and monitoring current behavior with cameras, audio recorders and other sensors. Santa Clara chipmaker Intel, which has been studying the technology for several years, believes that one day soon the gadgets will have the ability to read their owner's emotions. Detecting mood swings While some experts have proposed that face- and voice-recognition gear be used to detect a person's disposition, Intel has been experimenting with heart monitors and galvanic skin-response sensors. A study it did last year envisioned the gadgets detecting mood swings while people are driving, singing, chatting with friends, attending a boring meeting and even while going to the dentist. Others expect that household appliances eventually will be designed with humanlike personalities. In a study this year that was partly financed by Nissan Motor, researchers at Japan's Hokkaido University experimented with cheery-sounding devices that they imagined one day could serve as artificial companions for elderly and lonely people or as pun-spouting car navigation equipment that could entertain drivers by talking and possibly by joking. Although some gadgets already make assumptions about what people want, such as word processing software that automatically corrects grammar, the devices contemplated by Intel, Hewlett-Packard and other companies would be capable of much more sophisticated judgments about a broader array of human needs. That's a complex task - so difficult that some experts are skeptical the technology will be ready in the near future. My guess is that we will get there in time, but it's a little further off than the most ambitious announcements from a lot of companies have indicated, said Bob Sloan, who heads the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There are a lot of hard problems to solve. But other experts say the idea recently has become more practical because of the proliferation of computerized devices, from universal remote controls, MP3 players, air-conditioning equipment and microwave ovens to security systems, lawn-sprinkler controllers, exercise equipment and toys. Because many of these devices come with cameras, global positioning systems and other sensors to monitor what's around them, these experts say, it's not hard to imagine them gathering enough data about people to act autonomously on their behalf, assuming the individuals let the gizmos have that authority. One product that already claims to partly think for its owner is a personal assistant app for the iPhone and iPod developed by Siri, a San Jose company Apple bought in April. Besides being able to recommend a good play, book a taxi and offer helpful reminders, the app - which responds to verbal queries - adapts to your preferences over time, Siri claims. For example, ask it about a good place to eat nearby and it might suggest a certain type of restaurant you have picked before, a company spokesman said. He added that the app also can learn to recognize a person's voice and
Re: [scifinoir2] Klingon and other crazy ideas in book about invented tongues
This intrigues me as well, though I have no leave to comment, as I have a surprisingly bad verbal acuity with English. I call it my fourth language. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:51 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/96646229.html Klingon and other crazy ideas in book about invented tongues By John Timpane Inquirer Staff Writer Arika Okrent was studying languages at the University of Chicago. The languages people use and how they work. The rules, the changes, the charts. She was in the library, poking around. And then, says Okrent, relaxing in her Germantown home recently, I drifted down to the shelves with all the books on invented languages. It was a sad little collection. I felt sorry for it. But something called to her. Tales of made-up languages and their makers. Esperanto, the most widely spoken of all; Volapük, once the most popular; Klingon, the bark of space invaders. She learned artificial tongues, then wrote about going to a 2003 Esperanto conference for the American Scholar - and the seed of a book was planted. That book is the delightful In the Land of Invented Languages (published last month in paperback), which tells tales - often sad, often hilarious - of made-up tongues, Okrent's forays into the realms of Esperanto, Klingon, and Blissymbolics, and the personalities, political battles, and fates of linguistic makers-up. Niece of the journalist Daniel Okrent, Arika met her husband, research linguist Derrick Higgins, at Chicago. They came east when Higgins got a job at Educational Testing Service in Princeton. Okrent says, I did almost all the research for the book before I had kids - Leo, 5, and Louisa, 1. As I got further and further into this world, says Okrent, 40, at first, I'd say, 'Look at all these crazy ideas,' but I'd also find touching clues about the lives of the inventors. Her book reflects the humor and the craziness, but also has compassion and understanding, since I'm a language person myself. A graveyard of flops Land of Invented Languages is a history of a vast graveyard, brilliant projects that failed. Some inventors, such as James Cooke Brown, become famous for other things (he created the board game Careers), but not for their pet languages. We meet Suzette Haden Elgin, who in the early 1980s created Láadan, a woman's language (the only language textbook I know of, Okrent writes, that gives the word for menstruate in Lesson 1). We visit the nutty, simpatico world of Esperanto, and the gestural world of sign languages. There's the occasional success, as with Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who fought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to resurrect a near-dead priestly language (Hebrew), and retrofit it for a modern age; it is now the national language of Israel. Or Lazar Ludwik Zamenhof, who grew up in the 1860s and '70s in the Russian Empire town of Bialystok, a Babel of Russian, Polish, German, and Yiddish. He dreamed of a language that cut through the tangle - and his brainchild, Esperanto, is still the most widely practiced made-up tongue. Rage for order has led many to remake language. In the late 1940s, Austrian engineer Charles Bliss invented Blissymbolics, which he hoped could become a writing system for all languages, logical writing for an illogical world. And Brown invented Loglan, a language that followed the rules of logic. In one of her saddest stories, Okrent recounts how Brown fell into a long-running feud over rights, egos, and direction. A project titled Lojban carried on his vision, despite him. Why fix what isn't broken? Language makes us human. So - why mess with it? Well, there is a lot of messiness and ambiguity in language, Okrent says. We need it. We need that wiggle room. But if you have an engineering mind, you'll see irritating things. Why do words have more than one meaning? (Look up the word set in Webster's: Its very first entry lists 25 possible meanings.) Why do we have irregular verbs? Why are pronouns in English so messed up? Problem is, language probably isn't fixable. When you try to fix the world of ideas, fix the meanings of words, Okrent says, it's hard to keep it steady. Times change, words change, and besides, we tend to mean what we mean not by strict rules, but by agreement. That won't keep people from trying. One motive is the altruistic dream of tearing down the linguistic walls that divide us. It's the dream of oneness, says Okrent, the idea that if everyone could communicate with one another, we could eliminate strife - an idea that is, unfortunately, easy to disprove. Ludwick invented Esperanto with that idea. Bliss of Blissymbolics grew up in the many-languaged Austro-Hungarian Empire and dreamed of unifying the world through a common system. Even the names for these languages hint at the dream of one, perfect world: Esperanto (one who hopes), Volapük (world language),
Re: [scifinoir2] Windows token kidnapping returns to haunt Microsoft
So, Mr Worf, Snow Leopard would have the same glitches? On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with M$'s software is that it often brings the security holes with it no matter what OS you're running it on. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for this, Mr Worf. I'm off to renew the search for a new Mac for myself, once I clear my inbox... On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Windows token kidnapping returns to haunt Microsoft By Ryan Naraine | July 16, 2010, 8:52am PDT Summary A security researcher plans to expose new design mistakes and security issues that can be exploited to elevate privileges on all Windows versions including the brand new Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Here to help you with your Document Management Needshttp://adlog.com.com/adlog/e/r=9105sg=442773o=6037%253A12691%253Ah=cnp=b=2l=site=2pt=2100nd=12691pid=cid=pp=100e=rqid=00c13-ad-e3:4C427C6CD171orh=yahoo.comoepartner=epartner=ppartner=pdom=mail.yahoo.comcpnmodule=count=ra=75.62.180.70pg=hf8RUAoPOLkAAALnRmoBt=2010.07.18.04.02.41event=7/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/doc http://adlog.com.com/adlog/e/r=9105sg=442773o=6037%253A12691%253Ah=cnp=b=2l=site=2pt=2100nd=12691pid=cid=pp=100e=rqid=00c13-ad-e3:4C427C6CD171orh=yahoo.comoepartner=epartner=ppartner=pdom=mail.yahoo.comcpnmodule=count=ra=75.62.180.70pg=hf8RUAoPOLkAAALnRmoBt=2010.07.18.04.02.41event=10/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/doc Read the DocuMentor blog nowhttp://adlog.com.com/adlog/e/r=9105sg=442773o=6037%253A12691%253Ah=cnp=b=2l=site=2pt=2100nd=12691pid=cid=pp=100e=rqid=00c13-ad-e3:4C427C6CD171orh=yahoo.comoepartner=epartner=ppartner=pdom=mail.yahoo.comcpnmodule=count=ra=75.62.180.70pg=hf8RUAoPOLkAAALnRmoBt=2010.07.18.04.02.41event=8/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/doc Learn More »http://adlog.com.com/adlog/e/r=9105sg=442773o=6037%253A12691%253Ah=cnp=b=2l=site=2pt=2100nd=12691pid=cid=pp=100e=rqid=00c13-ad-e3:4C427C6CD171orh=yahoo.comoepartner=epartner=ppartner=pdom=mail.yahoo.comcpnmodule=count=ra=75.62.180.70pg=hf8RUAoPOLkAAALnRmoBt=2010.07.18.04.02.41event=9/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/doc http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=6849Microsoft’s problems with Token Kidnapping http://www.argeniss.com/research/TokenKidnapping.pdf [.pdf] on the Windows platform aren’t going away anytime soon. More than a year after Microsoft issued a patchhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-012.mspxto cover privilege escalation issues that could lead to complete system takeover, a security researcher plans to use the Black Hat conference spotlight to expose new design mistakes and security issues that can be exploited to elevate privileges on all Windows versions including the brand new Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Cesar Cerrudo, founder and CEO of Argeniss, a security consultancy firm based in Argentina, first reported the token kidnapping hiccup to Microsoft in 2008 and after waiting in vain for a patch, he released the details during the Month of Kernel Bugshttp://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-06-11-2006.htmlproject.[image: follow Ryan Naraine on twitter] http://twitter.com/ryanaraine The flaw would eventually be exploited in active attackshttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/one-year-old-unpatched-windows-token-kidnapping-under-attack/2894, leading to a mad scramble at Redmond to come up with a fix and a subsequent disclosure flaphttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/responsible-disclosure-the-microsoft-way/157that exposed Microsoft as the irresponsible party. This year, Cerrudo plans a new talk titled “Token Kidnapping’s Revenge” where he will discuss how attackers can even bypass certain Windows services protections. [ One-year-old (unpatched) Windows 'token kidnapping' under attackhttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/one-year-old-unpatched-windows-token-kidnapping-under-attack/2894] In an interview with Threatpost, Cerrudo said the presentation will discuss about a half-dozen vulnerabilities in all Windows versions from XP to Windows 7 that can be exploited to elevate privileges by any user with impersonation rights. The explanation: *Most Windows services accounts have impersonation rights. Because impersonation rights are needed these are not critical, high risk vulnerabilities, regularWindows users can’t exploit them. Some applications are more susceptible to exploitation of these vulnerabilities than others, for instance, if you can upload ASP web pages with exploit code to a MS Internet Information Server (IIS) 6, 7 or 7.5 running in default configuration you will be able to fully compromise the Windows server. * For example, if you are an SQL Server administrator (which is not a Windows administrator) you can exploit these vulnerabilities from SQL Server and fully compromise the Windows server. [ Responsible disclosure, the Microsoft
[scifinoir2] QinetiQ’s Zephyr solar powered unmanned aircraft d emonstrates perpetual flight
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[scifinoir2] Genetically engineered immune cells watched in real-time as they kill cancer
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[scifinoir2] Nuclear Coverup: 10 Cool Examples Of Cooling Tower Art
Web Urbanist http://weburbanist.com http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgsfeedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/WebUrbanist -- Nuclear Coverup: 10 Cool Examples Of Cooling Tower Arthttp://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/WebUrbanist/%7E3/BCyDf947pgs/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=email Posted: 18 Jul 2010 10:00 AM PDT [ By Steve http://weburbanist.com/steve in Abandoned Placeshttp://weburbanist.com/category/abandonments/, Architecture Design http://weburbanist.com/category/architecture/, Urban Images http://weburbanist.com/category/images/. ] Cooling towers have come to symbolize power plants – nuclear or not – around the world. Standing hundreds of feet tall with a distinctive hourglass profile, some of these “towershttp://weburbanist.com/2010/03/19/towering-achievements-incredible-industrial-towers/of power” show an unexpected side: they’ve become colossal curvaceous canvases upon which an astonishing variety of art has been displayed. New Clear Days (images via: Dvicehttp://dvice.com/archives/2007/09/shift_nuclear_power_is_better.php, Cartoonstock http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/birth_defects.asp and World’s Largest http://www.worldslargestdoc.com/artwork/popups/smiley.html ) Pro-nuke overkill or an obvious photoshop: how to explain these outrageously over-the-top smiley face cooling towers? Most uses of this image have been used in a sarcastic, almost sardonic fashion by anti-nuclear bloggers or to illustrate left-leaning articles on the nuclear power industry. Is putting a Happy Face on the most visible part of a nuclear power plant really so wrong? Is it that much different than displaying the same classic icon on water towers, as has been done dozens of times? You be the judge… and have a nice day! Hiding In Plain Sight (image via: Art Of Deception http://www.artofdeception.org/paintings.htm) Cooling towers predate the nuclear age; a fact that may surprise many. During World War II, the British government sought to camouflage cooling towers (and more importantly, the power plants next to them) from Luftwaffe bombers. Painters were hired to try and blend the huge, obtrusive towers into the landscape. (image via: Art Of Deception http://www.artofdeception.org/factory.htm) One of the best of these artists was Colin Mosshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/local/suffolk/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_847/8470836.stm(1914-2005), an art teacher from Ipswich who studied at the Royal College of Art in London. Moss’s murals survive to this day because he often painted them from his point of view – paintings of paintings of cooling towers, as it were. Soweto’s World ‘Cups’ (images via: Photo.net http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6891699, Adventure Escapades http://blog.adventureescapades.co.za/2008_07_01_archive.html, TravBuddyhttp://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/60642/Soweto-k-South-Western-Township-17and My Digital Lifehttp://www.mydigitallife.co.za/index.php?option=com_myblogshow=foreignersstop-bending-over-backwards-for-them.htmlItemid=29 ) This dynamic duo was part of the infrastructure cleanup and buildup leading up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup which took place this summer in South Africa. While one cooling towerhttp://www.southafricalogue.com/places-2-go/johannesburg/soweto/soweto-landmark-the-cooling-towers.htmlis painted in the colors and logo of the sponsor, FNB (First National Bank), the other is a vibrant celebration of folk art that displays the culture and traditions of Soweto. (images via: Suite101http://south-africa-travel.suite101.com/article.cfm/orlando_towers_in_soweto_south_africa, Sulekha.comhttp://newshopper.sulekha.com/an-abseiler-swings-between-the-old-orlando-power-station-cooling-towers-in-soweto-south-africa-at-the-official-re-opening-of_photo_192908.htmand WorldNews http://wn.com/africa_celebrity?orderby=viewCount) The coal-fired Orlando Power Station was the most technologically advanced in Africa when it was built but the station is now closed. Nice to see the old cooling towershttp://south-africa-travel.suite101.com/article.cfm/orlando_towers_in_soweto_south_africabeing put to good use – besides the beautification, tourists can pay to ride a power swing between the two towers and even jump inside one from the 300-ft top rim! Towers In Bloem (images via: Shine2010/Photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/shine2010/3655716515/, Shine2010/Communityhttp://www.shine2010.co.za/Community/blogs/fnb2010/archive/2008/10/23/2010-fever-purifies-mangaung-s-skyline.aspxand Just_Ice http://www.flickr.com/photos/just_ice/3316437232/) Emboldened by the positive press sparked by the Orlando Cooling Towers’ extreme makeover, other South African cities jumped on the bandwagon. One of the most notable was the city of Bloemfontein, who commissioned ad agency Draftfcb Johannesburg to freshen uphttp://www.totallymad.co.za/printpage.aspx?id=13300four 200-ft tall cooling towers. (image via:
Re: [scifinoir2] Windows token kidnapping returns to haunt Microsoft
If you run windows on a mac with the emulation software and the windows partition. The windows partition could get a virus and infect things if you do not have protection. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: So, Mr Worf, Snow Leopard would have the same glitches? On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with M$'s software is that it often brings the security holes with it no matter what OS you're running it on. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for this, Mr Worf. I'm off to renew the search for a new Mac for myself, once I clear my inbox... On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Windows token kidnapping returns to haunt Microsoft By Ryan Naraine | July 16, 2010, 8:52am PDT Summary A security researcher plans to expose new design mistakes and security issues that can be exploited to elevate privileges on all Windows versions including the brand new Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Here to help you with your Document Management Needshttp://adlog.com.com/adlog/e/r=9105sg=442773o=6037%253A12691%253Ah=cnp=b=2l=site=2pt=2100nd=12691pid=cid=pp=100e=rqid=00c13-ad-e3:4C427C6CD171orh=yahoo.comoepartner=epartner=ppartner=pdom=mail.yahoo.comcpnmodule=count=ra=75.62.180.70pg=hf8RUAoPOLkAAALnRmoBt=2010.07.18.04.02.41event=7/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/doc http://adlog.com.com/adlog/e/r=9105sg=442773o=6037%253A12691%253Ah=cnp=b=2l=site=2pt=2100nd=12691pid=cid=pp=100e=rqid=00c13-ad-e3:4C427C6CD171orh=yahoo.comoepartner=epartner=ppartner=pdom=mail.yahoo.comcpnmodule=count=ra=75.62.180.70pg=hf8RUAoPOLkAAALnRmoBt=2010.07.18.04.02.41event=10/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/doc Read the DocuMentor blog nowhttp://adlog.com.com/adlog/e/r=9105sg=442773o=6037%253A12691%253Ah=cnp=b=2l=site=2pt=2100nd=12691pid=cid=pp=100e=rqid=00c13-ad-e3:4C427C6CD171orh=yahoo.comoepartner=epartner=ppartner=pdom=mail.yahoo.comcpnmodule=count=ra=75.62.180.70pg=hf8RUAoPOLkAAALnRmoBt=2010.07.18.04.02.41event=8/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/doc Learn More »http://adlog.com.com/adlog/e/r=9105sg=442773o=6037%253A12691%253Ah=cnp=b=2l=site=2pt=2100nd=12691pid=cid=pp=100e=rqid=00c13-ad-e3:4C427C6CD171orh=yahoo.comoepartner=epartner=ppartner=pdom=mail.yahoo.comcpnmodule=count=ra=75.62.180.70pg=hf8RUAoPOLkAAALnRmoBt=2010.07.18.04.02.41event=9/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/doc http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=6849Microsoft’s problems with Token Kidnapping http://www.argeniss.com/research/TokenKidnapping.pdf[.pdf] on the Windows platform aren’t going away anytime soon. More than a year after Microsoft issued a patchhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-012.mspxto cover privilege escalation issues that could lead to complete system takeover, a security researcher plans to use the Black Hat conference spotlight to expose new design mistakes and security issues that can be exploited to elevate privileges on all Windows versions including the brand new Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Cesar Cerrudo, founder and CEO of Argeniss, a security consultancy firm based in Argentina, first reported the token kidnapping hiccup to Microsoft in 2008 and after waiting in vain for a patch, he released the details during the Month of Kernel Bugshttp://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-06-11-2006.htmlproject.[image: follow Ryan Naraine on twitter] http://twitter.com/ryanaraine The flaw would eventually be exploited in active attackshttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/one-year-old-unpatched-windows-token-kidnapping-under-attack/2894, leading to a mad scramble at Redmond to come up with a fix and a subsequent disclosure flaphttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/responsible-disclosure-the-microsoft-way/157that exposed Microsoft as the irresponsible party. This year, Cerrudo plans a new talk titled “Token Kidnapping’s Revenge” where he will discuss how attackers can even bypass certain Windows services protections. [ One-year-old (unpatched) Windows 'token kidnapping' under attackhttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/one-year-old-unpatched-windows-token-kidnapping-under-attack/2894] In an interview with Threatpost, Cerrudo said the presentation will discuss about a half-dozen vulnerabilities in all Windows versions from XP to Windows 7 that can be exploited to elevate privileges by any user with impersonation rights. The explanation: *Most Windows services accounts have impersonation rights. Because impersonation rights are needed these are not critical, high risk vulnerabilities, regularWindows users can’t exploit them. Some applications are more susceptible to exploitation of these vulnerabilities than others, for instance, if you can upload ASP web pages with exploit code to a MS Internet Information Server (IIS) 6, 7 or 7.5 running in default configuration you will be able to fully compromise the
[scifinoir2] Bizarro Fiction: stupid and intelligent at the same time
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/18/bizarro-fiction-stup.html My favorite: Jeff Burk's 'Shatnerquake,' about all of the characters William Shatner has ever played are suddenly sucked into our world on a mission to hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner.
Re: [scifinoir2] Smart gadgets may one day anticipate our needs
The Japanese have been working on products like this for a while now. A couple of prototype cars had a lot of these features in it including mood lighting and a dash icon that communicated to you. The car could read your emotions and express it on the front of the car etc. (the lights would change to make the front of the car look like a face) On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:59 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15450492?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.comnclick_check=1 Smart gadgets may one day anticipate our needs By Steve Johnson sjohn...@mercurynews.com Don't be surprised if one day your refrigerator nags you to lose weight, your phone blocks calls it figures you're too stressed to handle and your wisecracking car entertains you with pun-filled one-liners. Within a decade or two, researchers at Silicon Valley companies and elsewhere predict, consumer gadgets will be functioning like hyper-attentive butlers, anticipating and fulfilling people's needs without having to be told. Life would not only be more convenient, it might even last longer: Devices could monitor people's health and step in when needed to help them get better. I think it's inevitable, said Michael Freed, an artificial intelligence specialist and program director at the Menlo Park think tank, SRI International, which has been studying the concept for the military. Noting that some of these gadgets already are being developed, he added, I expect we'll see more soon - a trickle and then a flood.'' The technology propelling this new generation of personal assistants is a combination of sophisticated sensors and carefully tailored computer software. As envisioned, the machines would adjust their own actions to the preferences and needs of an individual, by analyzing data on the person's past actions and monitoring current behavior with cameras, audio recorders and other sensors. Santa Clara chipmaker Intel, which has been studying the technology for several years, believes that one day soon the gadgets will have the ability to read their owner's emotions. Detecting mood swings While some experts have proposed that face- and voice-recognition gear be used to detect a person's disposition, Intel has been experimenting with heart monitors and galvanic skin-response sensors. A study it did last year envisioned the gadgets detecting mood swings while people are driving, singing, chatting with friends, attending a boring meeting and even while going to the dentist. Others expect that household appliances eventually will be designed with humanlike personalities. In a study this year that was partly financed by Nissan Motor, researchers at Japan's Hokkaido University experimented with cheery-sounding devices that they imagined one day could serve as artificial companions for elderly and lonely people or as pun-spouting car navigation equipment that could entertain drivers by talking and possibly by joking. Although some gadgets already make assumptions about what people want, such as word processing software that automatically corrects grammar, the devices contemplated by Intel, Hewlett-Packard and other companies would be capable of much more sophisticated judgments about a broader array of human needs. That's a complex task - so difficult that some experts are skeptical the technology will be ready in the near future. My guess is that we will get there in time, but it's a little further off than the most ambitious announcements from a lot of companies have indicated, said Bob Sloan, who heads the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There are a lot of hard problems to solve. But other experts say the idea recently has become more practical because of the proliferation of computerized devices, from universal remote controls, MP3 players, air-conditioning equipment and microwave ovens to security systems, lawn-sprinkler controllers, exercise equipment and toys. Because many of these devices come with cameras, global positioning systems and other sensors to monitor what's around them, these experts say, it's not hard to imagine them gathering enough data about people to act autonomously on their behalf, assuming the individuals let the gizmos have that authority. One product that already claims to partly think for its owner is a personal assistant app for the iPhone and iPod developed by Siri, a San Jose company Apple bought in April. Besides being able to recommend a good play, book a taxi and offer helpful reminders, the app - which responds to verbal queries - adapts to your preferences over time, Siri claims. For example, ask it about a good place to eat nearby and it might suggest a certain type of restaurant you have picked before, a company spokesman said. He added that the app also can learn to recognize a person's voice and speaking style, which might
Re: [scifinoir2] Smart gadgets may one day anticipate our needs
I like the mainframe concept from the 60s that would just know everything so you don't really have to look it up. You would just ask it questions. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Brent, such tings have intrigued me for years. Personally, I'm waiting for the computer that so fast and intelligent that, if you suddenly decide that you need to look up something online it will, the moment you boot it up, immediately get online and find the perfect site for your need. Mind you, that'll be the day before Skynet takes control... On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:59 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15450492?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.comnclick_check=1 Smart gadgets may one day anticipate our needs By Steve Johnson sjohn...@mercurynews.com sjohnson%40mercurynews.com Don't be surprised if one day your refrigerator nags you to lose weight, your phone blocks calls it figures you're too stressed to handle and your wisecracking car entertains you with pun-filled one-liners. Within a decade or two, researchers at Silicon Valley companies and elsewhere predict, consumer gadgets will be functioning like hyper-attentive butlers, anticipating and fulfilling people's needs without having to be told. Life would not only be more convenient, it might even last longer: Devices could monitor people's health and step in when needed to help them get better. I think it's inevitable, said Michael Freed, an artificial intelligence specialist and program director at the Menlo Park think tank, SRI International, which has been studying the concept for the military. Noting that some of these gadgets already are being developed, he added, I expect we'll see more soon - a trickle and then a flood.'' The technology propelling this new generation of personal assistants is a combination of sophisticated sensors and carefully tailored computer software. As envisioned, the machines would adjust their own actions to the preferences and needs of an individual, by analyzing data on the person's past actions and monitoring current behavior with cameras, audio recorders and other sensors. Santa Clara chipmaker Intel, which has been studying the technology for several years, believes that one day soon the gadgets will have the ability to read their owner's emotions. Detecting mood swings While some experts have proposed that face- and voice-recognition gear be used to detect a person's disposition, Intel has been experimenting with heart monitors and galvanic skin-response sensors. A study it did last year envisioned the gadgets detecting mood swings while people are driving, singing, chatting with friends, attending a boring meeting and even while going to the dentist. Others expect that household appliances eventually will be designed with humanlike personalities. In a study this year that was partly financed by Nissan Motor, researchers at Japan's Hokkaido University experimented with cheery-sounding devices that they imagined one day could serve as artificial companions for elderly and lonely people or as pun-spouting car navigation equipment that could entertain drivers by talking and possibly by joking. Although some gadgets already make assumptions about what people want, such as word processing software that automatically corrects grammar, the devices contemplated by Intel, Hewlett-Packard and other companies would be capable of much more sophisticated judgments about a broader array of human needs. That's a complex task - so difficult that some experts are skeptical the technology will be ready in the near future. My guess is that we will get there in time, but it's a little further off than the most ambitious announcements from a lot of companies have indicated, said Bob Sloan, who heads the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There are a lot of hard problems to solve. But other experts say the idea recently has become more practical because of the proliferation of computerized devices, from universal remote controls, MP3 players, air-conditioning equipment and microwave ovens to security systems, lawn-sprinkler controllers, exercise equipment and toys. Because many of these devices come with cameras, global positioning systems and other sensors to monitor what's around them, these experts say, it's not hard to imagine them gathering enough data about people to act autonomously on their behalf, assuming the individuals let the gizmos have that authority. One product that already claims to partly think for its owner is a personal assistant app for the iPhone and iPod developed by Siri, a San Jose company Apple bought in April. Besides being able to recommend a good play, book a taxi and offer helpful reminders, the app - which responds to verbal queries - adapts to your preferences over time, Siri
[scifinoir2] 3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos)
3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos) 5 images... [image: 3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos)] Ever since China’s first 3D newspaper was released, back in April, the public has been asking for more. And they’re about to get it, as a limited number of the Hangzhou-based Daily Business editions are about to be issued, in 3D format. [image: 3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos)] British tabloid, The Sun, has announced it will be launching the first 3D newspaper today, a few days before the Soccer World Cup kicks off, in an attempt to raise awareness to the 3D broadcast of the sports event, by Sky News. Sorry guys, but you’re almost two months late, in China, 3D newspapers are already yesterday’s news. [image: 3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos)] [image: 3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos)] [image: 3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos)] Read more: http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/3d-newspapers-are-the-hottest-thing-in-china-05062010.html#ixzz0u9sjTtWS -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] 3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos)
Brilliant! Brent Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com writes: 3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos) Ever since ChinaÕs first 3D newspaper was released, back in April, the public has been asking for more. And theyÕre about to get it, as a limited number of the Hangzhou-based Daily Business editions are about to be issued, in 3D format. British tabloid, The Sun, has announced it will be launching the first 3D newspaper today, a few days before the Soccer World Cup kicks off, in an attempt to raise awareness to the 3D broadcast of the sports event, by Sky News. Sorry guys, but youÕre almost two months late, in China, 3D newspapers are already yesterdayÕs news. Read more: [ http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/3d-newspapers-are-the-hottest-thing-in-china-05062010.html#ixzz0u9sjTtWS ]http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/3d-newspapers-are-the-hottest-thing-in-china-05062010.html#ixzz0u9sjTtWS
Re: [scifinoir2] 3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos)
I think that may be the only thing that will save the newspaper industry. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: Brilliant! Brent Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com writes: 3D Newspapers Are the Hottest Thing in China (5 Photos) Ever since ChinaÕs first 3D newspaper was released, back in April, the public has been asking for more. And theyÕre about to get it, as a limited number of the Hangzhou-based Daily Business editions are about to be issued, in 3D format. British tabloid, The Sun, has announced it will be launching the first 3D newspaper today, a few days before the Soccer World Cup kicks off, in an attempt to raise awareness to the 3D broadcast of the sports event, by Sky News. Sorry guys, but youÕre almost two months late, in China, 3D newspapers are already yesterdayÕs news. Read more: [ http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/3d-newspapers-are-the-hottest-thing-in-china-05062010.html#ixzz0u9sjTtWS ] http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/3d-newspapers-are-the-hottest-thing-in-china-05062010.html#ixzz0u9sjTtWS Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
