Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
1. The autonomous automobile that can drive in normal California
traffic. This came far sooner than most experts predicted, I believe.
Do you have a link on this one? I googled for it and didn't turn
anything up (maybe I misspelled California or something...)
There have been a zillion articles lately about the autonomous
automobile and the Watson computer challenging Jeopardy's top stars. I
tend to start with the Great Gray Lady, although she may soon once again
start charging for cyber access.
A long article about the Watson supercomputer is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html
The Google car is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html
- Jed