Difference between revisions of "technology"

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Links and information relating to technology, especially new technology (maybe eventually other areas).

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Progress

Artificial Intelligence (see also The Singularity)
- 2006-09-14: Experimental AI Powers Robot Army and more
- found 2006-05-15: Artificial Intelligence Algorithms For Top-Down AI at SourceForge
- 2006-02-06 Software That Learns by Doing (also has implications for the Intelligent Design controversy)
- 2006-01-14 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Robot
- 2006-01-12 St. Lawrence of Google: Google is working on a massive global computing grid; wants to "build the machine that will pass the Turing test"
- 2005-11-11 Firm to introduce robot lawyers
- Software
  - Cyc
Artificial Life
see also Reality Simulation
- 2006-02-17 Web program simplifies artificial gene design
- 2006 Is This Life?
- International Society of Artificial Life (this site doesn't seem to have much content; may remove it soon.)
Computing (see also Computing)
- 2006-12-11 Disk Drives Face Challenge If New Chip Comes to Market
- 2005-12-07 Breakthrough Chip Delivers Better Digital Pictures For Less Power
- Moving print adverts coming soon: printable display technology
Cryogenics
- 2006-07-14 Stuck Pig: progress in short-term cryogenic suspension for surgical purposes
Cybernetics
- 2006-10-09 Teenager moves video icons just by imagination: an epileptic 14-year-old boy with electrodes implanted inside his cranium to study the epilepsy volunteered for another experiment in which those same electrodes were used to carry signals enabling him to play "Space Invaders" without any physical movement
- 2006-03-09 'Mental typewriter' controlled by thought alone: apparently somewhat like Dasher and practical only if finger-typing is not an option
- 2006-02-08 http://news.com.com/Chips+that+really+get+under+your+skin/2100-11395_3-6037112.html
- 2006-01-30 Missing a few brain cells? Print new ones
- Speech assistive technology
Energy
- Green Car Congress: "sustainable mobility"
- 2007-02-16 Self-Assembling Batteries "By measuring nanoscale forces, researchers learn to make lithium-ion batteries that pull themselves together."
- 2007-01-22 Battery Breakthrough? "A Texas company says it can make a new ultracapacitor power system to replace the electrochemical batteries in everything from cars to laptops."
- 2005-10-18 White Light, No Heat: extremely efficient form of broad-spectrum lighting using quantum dots
Fabrication
- MIT Fab Lab (article)
Longevity
- 2006-03-11 For The First Time: Longevity Modulated Without Disrupting Life-sustaining Function
Medicine
- 2007-02-21 Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers: latest information is at the Official University of Alberta Dichloroacetate (DCA) Site; there is also a dichloroacetic acid article at Wikipedia with some related information.
- 2006-04-04 Wake Forest Physician Reports First Human Recipients Of Laboratory-grown Organs
- 2004-02-18 Researcher Uses Bioprinter To Print Three-Dimensional Cellular Structures: possibility of growing fresh, genetically-compatible replacement organs
Nanotechnology
Nutrition
- Fighting Global Warming with Lab-Grown Meat
Reality Simulation
- (Open)Croquet: collaborative P2P virtual reality
- Ping: Open-content Virtual Earth project
- Pleasing plant shapes explained by new computer model
- 2006-05-18 Searching for the soul in the machine: simulation of social interaction & cultural development (New-Ties project)
- 2006-03-14 Scientists Model Entire Virus (Slashdot)
- 2005-11-25 first computer simulation of a ribosome
Self-Replication
- RepRap: Replicating Rapid-prototyper, a practical self-copying 3D printer (in development)
The Singularity
- Reference
  - Wikipedia
- Discussion
  - SL4 ("(future)shock level four")
  - Kurzweil AI: Accelerating Intelligence
  - The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  - Singularity.org: links to several related sites
  - Vernor Vinge's 1993 lecture explaining the concept, and a 2003 update
Physics
- 2006-01-05 Hyperdrive?
- Quantum Physics
  - 2006-02-23 Is our universe about to be mangled? (quantum reality? cosmology?)
  - 2006-02-22 Quantum computer works best switched off
Poverty Reduction (for lack of a better term)
- Kiva: micro-loan finder/seeker site
- cell phones in the Third World: Loose Talk Saves Lives
Space Exploration
- ESA and ANU make space propulsion breakthrough: much more efficient ion engine

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 ** '''2006-03-11''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060311090736.htm For The First Time: Longevity Modulated Without Disrupting Life-sustaining Function]
 * '''Medicine'''
+** '''2007-02-21''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10971-cheap-safe-drug-kills-most-cancers.html Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers]: latest information is at the [http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/ Official University of Alberta Dichloroacetate (DCA) Site]; there is also a [[wikipedia:dichloroacetic acid|dichloroacetic acid]] article at Wikipedia with some related information.
 ** '''2006-04-04''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060404084412.htm Wake Forest Physician Reports First Human Recipients Of Laboratory-grown Organs]
 ** '''2004-02-18''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040218080011.htm Researcher Uses Bioprinter To Print Three-Dimensional Cellular Structures]: possibility of growing fresh, genetically-compatible replacement organs