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ShelterWolf	If you want to buy a Xmas Present for Cammie... Mar 16 2010, 9:16 PM EDT Quantum Sensor Developed by LSU Researcher Breaks New Limits Researchers at Louisiana State University have invented an optical sensor that surpasses a quantum limit to sensitivity previously believed to be unbeatable. The breakthrough has a broad array of applications, from gravity wave observatories seeking to observe distant and bizarre astrophysical phenomena, to optical gyroscopes used in commercial navigation... http://www.physorg.com/news187982422.html Post reply Do you find this valuable? Keyword tags: christmas present heisenburg limit optical interferometer quantum sensor
ShelterWolf	1. RE: If you want to buy a Xmas Present for Cammie... Mar 17 2010, 10:21 PM EDT Brain-Like Computer Closer to Realization Almost since computing began, scientists and technologists have been fascinated with the idea of a computer that works similarly to the human brain. In 2008, the first "memristor" was built, a device that is designed to behave in a manner that mimics the junctions betweens the neurons in the brain. However, until recently, the memristor was just a device. Now a group at the University of Michigan, led by Wei Lu, has demonstrated that the memristor can actually be used in computing. Their findings were published in Nano Letters: "Nanoscale Memristor Device as Synapse in Neuromorphic Systems." In the brain the timing of electrical signals in two neurons affects the ease with which later messages can jump across the synapse between them. If the pair fire in close succession, the synapse becomes more likely to pass subsequent messages between the two. "Cells that fire together, wire together," says Lu. The Michigan device exhibits the same behaviour. When the gap between signals on the two electrodes was 20 milliseconds, the resistance to current flowing between the two was roughly half that after signals separated by 40 milliseconds. "The memristor mimics synaptic action," says Lu, adding that the next step will be to build circuits with tens of thousands of memristor synapses. However, it has yet to be proved that memories are being stored by this set-up, and stored information hasn't been retrieved. But the fact that a team of scientists has managed to create a situation in which the brain is mimicked by human-developed technology means that a brain-like computer could be closer to realization. http://www.physorg.com/news188041906.html Maybe Cammie has this already... Post reply Do you find this valuable?
R.Daneel_Olivaw	2. RE: If you want to buy a Xmas Present for Cammie... Mar 17 2010, 10:58 PM EDT Who the hell is Cammie? Post reply 0 out of 4 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
termi-ninja-tor	3. RE: If you want to buy a Xmas Present for Cammie... Mar 18 2010, 5:43 PM EDT "Who the hell is Cammie?" I remember hearing that gravity wave detectors were so sensitive already that they had a statistical noise problem. I mean, the astronomical events they are trying to detect are huge but far away, but there is a lot of stuff moving around that is close. Like a truck driving by is a small event , but it is so close that it could generate a gravity wave reading. One thing that researchers have done is to have two detectors very far apart, like in different parts of the country. This would help eliminate the unwanted local gravity wave noise. I mean, only something that registered at both sites would be a legitimate astronomical observation. But even then there is a lot of noise cuz there is almost always something happening locally all the time. So I wonder how much benefit having an even more sensitive detector would be? Maybe Cammie knows? Post reply Do you find this valuable?
ShelterWolf	4. RE: If you want to buy a Xmas Present for Cammie... Mar 25 2010, 10:19 PM EDT \| Post edited: Mar 25 2010, 10:21 PM EDT Conical nanocarbon structures could lead to flexible, transparent field emission displays “..FED is a kind of flat panel display,” Tanemura explained. “Compared with other types of flat panel displays such as LCDs and electroluminescence displays, FED is advantageous in its brightness and size (a huge size is possible).” He added that transparent, flexible FEDs have great potential for applications including so-called head-up displays and highly intelligent information displays used in the coming ubiquitous world, when computers become thoroughly integrated into our everyday activities. “For example, head-up displays will be used on a curved front glass of vehicles (airplanes, trains, cars, and so on), full-face helmets, spectacles, and so on,” he said. “Usually it is transparent, but various kinds of information, such as maps, customer information, alarms, and security, will be displayed on demand. In the ubiquitous world, displays should be foldable (rollable) and light for mobility. You can enjoy TV, movies, games, communication, and obtain various kinds of information using an unfolded wide screen. Transparent and flexible FEDs make it realistic!” http://www.physorg.com/news188730439.html Wow, I guess we can have our own HUD display anywhere we want soon. How about in the bathroom mirror? It can tell us our imperfections and where we need proper grooming. "Mirror mirror on the wall, tell me how to cure that zit." The sci-future is upon us! Merry Xmas, Cammie! Post reply Do you find this valuable?
ShelterWolf	5. RE: If you want to buy a Xmas Present for Cammie... Apr 8 2010, 4:32 PM EDT \| Post edited: Apr 8 2010, 4:32 PM EDT Gallery: NASA's X-48B Hybrid-Wing Drone Soars on First Flight Tests http://www.popsci.com/node/44846/?cmpid=enews040810 Cammie can have a remote HUD using this, unless Skynet wants it first... Post reply Do you find this valuable?
ShelterWolf	6. RE: If you want to buy a Xmas Present for Cammie... Apr 15 2010, 11:13 PM EDT Hewlett-Packard Unveils Real-World Memristor, Chip of the Future http://www.popsci.com/node/44900/?cmpid=enews041510 Post reply Do you find this valuable?
ShelterWolf	7. RE: If you want to buy a Xmas Present for Cammie... Apr 21 2010, 11:05 PM EDT Graphene: Can the Newest Form of Carbon Be Made to Bend, Twist and Roll “..We show in this paper that the electrostatic control of nanoscrolls is very much feasible. The required voltages are in the practical range. Since graphene is so light, the wrapping and unwrapping would occur on a time scale of one-trillionth of a second. So, not only the degree of scrolling can be controlled, these nano-electromechanical devices will also be ultra-fast.” Fogler said such nanoscrolls could have a wide range of applications, such as actuators whose operation resembles the blinking of one’s eyes, valves in lab-on-a-chip devices and even a form of electronic paper. Previously, other scientists attempted to build scroll “machines” using thin plastic films but they were either too rigid or too frail to work well. In contrast, nanoscrolls made of graphene, which is mechanically stronger than any other material known to man, would be robust, yet remain ultra-light and ultra-flexible. They would also conduct electricity more than a thousand times better than silicon... http://www.physorg.com/news191054841.html Cammie, my darling, not only will you seem completely human, you will also be a bad ass super hero cyborg with reflexes like The Flash! Post reply Do you find this valuable?
ShelterWolf	8. Researchers demonstrate self-repairing chip Mar 16 2011, 10:58 PM EDT \| Post edited: Mar 16 2011, 11:00 PM EDT As chips continue to get smaller, the technological possibilities just get larger. One of the trade-offs of miniaturization, however, is that smaller things are also often more fragile and less dependable. Anticipating a point at which chips will become too tiny to maintain their current level of resilience, a team of four companies and two universities in The Netherlands, Germany, and Finland have created what they say could be the solution – a chip that monitors its own performance, and redirects tasks as needed. "Because of the rapidly growing transistor density on chips, it has become a real challenge to ensure high system dependability," said Hans Kerkhoff of The Netherlands' University of Twente, and part of the CRISP (Cutting-edge Reconfigurable ICs for Stream Processing) consortium. "The solution is not to make non-degradable chips, it's to make architectures that can degrade while they keep functioning, which we call graceful degradation." In order to make that graceful degradation possible, the CRISP chip incorporates multiple cores. Different tasks are assigned to different cores, by a built-in resource manager. The connections of those cores are continuously tested, and when a fault is detected, the task assigned to that core is simply reallocated to another one. Although the chip itself isn't actually any stronger, it can function at full capacity for a longer period of time. CRISP's self-testing, self-repairing chip was recently demonstrated at the DATE2011 conference in Grenoble, France. http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-demonstrate-self-repairing-chip/18150/ Post reply Do you find this valuable?
ShelterWolf	9. RE: If you want to buy a Xmas Present for Cammie... Mar 27 2011, 10:50 PM EDT The team worked from a computational model Gnegy, Kolmakov, and Salib created based on a self-healing material Matyjaszewski developed known as nanogel, a composition of spongy, microscopic polymer particles linked to one another by several tentacle-like bonds. The nanogel particles consist of stable bonds—which provide overall strength—and labile bonds, highly reactive bonds that can break and easily reform, that act as shock absorbers. The computer model allowed the researchers to test the performance of various bond arrangements. The polymers were first laid out in an arrangement similar to that in the nanogel, with the tentacles linked end-to-end by a single strong bond. Simulated stress tests showed, however, that though these bonds could recover from short-lived stress, they could not withstand drawn out tension such as stretching or pulling. Instead, the team found that when particles were joined by several parallel bonds, the nanogel could absorb more stress and still self-repair... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-weak-survive-pitt-team-stronger.html Is it possible that nanogel can be used as an alternate form of "flesh" for Cammie? That way, she doesn't have to go around at night like a vampire. Post reply Do you find this valuable?
ShelterWolf	10. Synthetic brain comes a step closer with creation of artificial synaps Apr 27 2011, 11:49 PM EDT It's probably still going to be a while before autonomous, self-aware androids are wandering amongst us. That scenario has come a little closer to reality, however, with researchers from the University of Southern California having created a functioning synapse circuit using carbon nanotubes. An artificial version of the connections that allow electrical impulses to pass between neurons in our brains, the circuit could someday be one component of a synthetic brain. The USC Viterbi School of Engineering team was led by Professors Alice Parker and Chongwu Zhou. Parker has been looking into the feasibility of creating a synthetic brain for the past five years, as part of the BioRC Biomimetic Real-Time Cortex project. The circuit itself consists of highly-aligned carbon nanotubes that are grown on a quartz wafer, then transferred to a silicon substrate. It mimics an actual synapse insofar as the waveforms that are sent to it, and then successfully output from it, resemble biological waveforms in shape, relative amplitudes and durations. In other words, it can take in the type of impulses generated by real neurons, and send them on in a form that could be further processed by other neurons – it can even vary the strength of those impulses, much as real synapses do in a biological process that is thought to facilitate learning... http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-create-artificial-synapse/18482/ Wow, imagine your whole brain on a chip... Wait, is that what Cammie has? Allison's brain on a chip? Post reply Do you find this valuable?
I.Join	11. RE: Synthetic brain comes a step closer with creation of artificial synaps Apr 28 2011, 10:53 AM EDT "It's probably still going to be a while before autonomous, self-aware androids are wandering amongst us. That scenario has come a little closer to reality, however, with researchers from the University of Southern California having created a functioning synapse circuit using carbon nanotubes. An artificial version of the connections that allow electrical impulses to pass between neurons in our brains, the circuit could someday be one component of a synthetic brain. [cut] http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-create-artificial-synapse/18482/ Wow, imagine your whole brain on a chip... Wait, is that what Cammie has? Allison's brain on a chip?" Now we have the synapses... we need only 2 other things: the neurons and the ability for the synapses to mute (to form new ones to vary the neural net structure, like in a biologic brain) Then we'll have the artificial neural network brain. P.S. No, Cammie doesn't have Allison's brain on a chip (as stated in many other 3Ds), but this remembers me what the Japanese boy told Cameron at the restaurant... Post reply Do you find this valuable?
termi-ninja-tor	12. RE: Synthetic brain comes a step closer with creation of artificial synaps Apr 28 2011, 11:01 AM EDT "Now we have the synapses... we need only 2 other things: the neurons and the ability for the synapses to mute (to form new ones to vary the neural net structure, like in a biologic brain) Then we'll have the artificial neural network brain. P.S. No, Cammie doesn't have Allison's brain on a chip (as stated in many other 3Ds), but this remembers me what the Japanese boy told Cameron at the restaurant..." An artificial brain would have the ability to think faster and could be much bigger, hence smarter than the human brain. And another corollary would be that it could live much longer, too. If I were "downloaded" into such a brain before I died, I would still die, but a new person with my memories would be created on the artificial brain. (Is that how Star Trek transporters work -- the original is killed and a new one created? How could you tell?) Post reply Do you find this valuable?
I.Join	13. RE: Synthetic brain comes a step closer with creation of artificial synaps Apr 28 2011, 12:19 PM EDT \| Post edited: Apr 28 2011, 7:54 PM EDT "An artificial brain would have the ability to think faster and could be much bigger, hence smarter than the human brain. And another corollary would be that it could live much longer, too. If I were "downloaded" into such a brain before I died, I would still die, but a new person with my memories would be created on the artificial brain. (Is that how Star Trek transporters work -- the original is killed and a new one created? How could you tell?)" Yes, maybe a future evolution, not surely the first models... as your 30$ phone is more powerful than the computer you had 20 years ago. Well it's not biologic, so it doesn't degrade... but it not even self repairs... Never said/thought the contrary. The problem is that you could be copied many times: an invasion of your clones with your mind, memory and personality... Hitler's dream! Post reply Do you find this valuable?
horhai	14. RE: Synthetic brain comes a step closer with creation of artificial synaps May 2 2011, 9:25 PM EDT \| Post edited: May 2 2011, 9:25 PM EDT "The problem is that you could be copied many times: an invasion of your clones with your mind, memory and personality... Hitler's dream!" I don't know what Hitler dreamed. Did you sleep with him? Post reply Do you find this valuable?
ShelterWolf	15. RE: Synthetic brain comes a step closer with creation of artificial synaps May 4 2011, 4:36 AM EDT \| Post edited: May 4 2011, 4:36 AM EDT "P.S. No, Cammie doesn't have Allison's brain on a chip (as stated in many other 3Ds), but this remembers me what the Japanese boy told Cameron at the restaurant..." It is simple to nay say, but how did Cammie have Allison's Memories? Today's hypothesizing is tomorrow's brain on a chip. Post reply Do you find this valuable?
termi-ninja-tor	16. RE: Synthetic brain comes a step closer with creation of artificial synaps May 4 2011, 12:39 PM EDT "It is simple to nay say, but how did Cammie have Allison's Memories? Today's hypothesizing is tomorrow's brain on a chip." "Nay" Cameron did not have Allison's memories. All she had was only what Allison told her during the interrogation, plus her basic knowledge of human female life before and after Judgment Day. The scenes of Allison that we saw in Allison from Palmdale were dramatic-narrative flashbacks, i.e., scenes to show us viewers what Allison was experiencing. Those scenes were not from Cameron's memories (except where she was present, like in the interrogations). One problem with the idea of downloading a human mind is how do you read the mind? You have to be able to translate all the electrical activity in the brain into thoughts and memories. What does your memory of Tom Dekker as John Connor look like in your brain, electically? How do you know? Post reply Do you find this valuable?
ShelterWolf	17. RE: Synthetic brain comes a step closer with creation of artificial synaps May 4 2011, 10:39 PM EDT \| Post edited: May 4 2011, 10:43 PM EDT ""Nay" Cameron did not have Allison's memories. All she had was only what Allison told her during the interrogation, plus her basic knowledge of human female life before and after Judgment Day. The scenes of Allison that we saw in Allison from Palmdale were dramatic-narrative flashbacks, i.e., scenes to show us viewers what Allison was experiencing. Those scenes were not from Cameron's memories (except where she was present, like in the interrogations). One problem with the idea of downloading a human mind is how do you read the mind? You have to be able to translate all the electrical activity in the brain into thoughts and memories. What does your memory of Tom Dekker as John Connor look like in your brain, electically? How do you know?" Upon duplicating human brain wave harmonics within the post synaptic potentials of the artificial neural network, simply insert fMRI recordings of specific memories within those harmonics - like TV signals on an FM carrier wave based in fourier transformations. How / Why would Cammie extrapolate only Allison's perspective and take on her persona? Surely, Cammie Should have taken on multiple personalities of everyone she interrogated. Considering the quantum leaps in technology and that JC reprogrammed Cammie, why don't we consider the possibility that JC did something very interesting to Cammie? Post reply Do you find this valuable?
termi-ninja-tor	18. RE: Synthetic brain comes a step closer with creation of artificial synaps May 4 2011, 10:44 PM EDT "Upon duplicating human brain wave harmonics within the post synaptic potentials of the artificial neural network, simply insert MRI recordings of specific memories within those harmonics - like TV signals on an FM carrier wave based in fourier transformations. How / Why would Cammie extrapolate only Allison's perspective and take on her persona? Surely, Cammie Should have taken on multiple personalities of everyone she interrogated. Considering the quantum leaps in technology and that JC reprogrammed Cammie, why don't we consider the possibility that JC did something very interesting to Cammie?" She only interrogated Allison. Did you see her interrogate anyone else? What very interesting thing could JC have done to her? Do tell. Post reply Do you find this valuable?
ShelterWolf	19. RE: Synthetic brain comes a step closer with creation of artificial synaps May 4 2011, 11:12 PM EDT "She only interrogated Allison. Did you see her interrogate anyone else? What very interesting thing could JC have done to her? Do tell." Well, isn't that kind of like saying, "Everything we saw on TSCC is all that happened." But the way JF presented TSCC, everything that we saw is NOT all that happened. Part of it we have to imagine. Post reply Do you find this valuable?

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