Cognitive Match, which applies real-timeAI, learning math, and semantic processing technologies to increase response rates for online businesses, has received a $2.5M investment.
The service is targeted to companies that are marketing via websites and generate over $1M annually through their website, Cognitive Match CEO Alex Kelleher told KurzweilAI.net.
"We work with 4 UK universities, and the professors at those universities who are leaders in the fields of AI, computational mathematics and natural language processing," he said.
The matching engine makes decisions by using a large number of data points on each individual, ranging from behavioral to environmental.
Those data points vary from site to site but typically include time of day, geo-location, previous visit history, searchhistory, and relevant external data feeds that describe the environment the individual is currently in.
Brigham Young University engineers and chemists have created an inexpensive silicon microchip that reliably detects viruses, even at low concentrations.
A 9-cubic millimeter solar-powered sensor system developed at the University of Michigan could enable new biomedical implants, home-building and bridge-monitoring devices, and environmental sensor networks, with average power consumption less than 1 nanowatt.
Seeding the universe with life is not just an option, it's our moral obligation, says Michael Mautner, Research Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The suggested strategy: deposit an array of primitive organisms on potentially fertile planets and protoplanets throughout the universe.
Potential breeding grounds include extrasolar planets, accretion disks surrounding young stars that hold the gas and dust of future planets, and - at an even earlier stage - interstellar clouds that hold the materials to create stars.
Google is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly, using voice recognition and automatic translation.
Viralheat's new analytics package allows for in-depth analysis of discussions about their products on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, including sentiment analysis, which calls for fairly sophisticated algorithms and processing power.
A new screening tool developed by scientists in Denmark, comprising a microarray system that analyzes patients' blood, could detect the presence of autoantibodies as a warning sign of cancer.
Overexpression of cancer-associated short glycan (sugar chains) structures (green) on proteins in cancer cells. (Kirstine Lavrsen)
The risk of age-associated diseases including heart disease and some types of cancers are more closely related to biological rather than chronological age,
European researchers have found, showing that telomere lengths depend on the presence of gene variants near a gene called TERC.
Rockefeller University researchers have discovered how interaction between water molecules paves the way for understanding how water can be manipulated to facilitate or prevent substances from dissolving in it, an advance that could impact every corner of society, from reforming agricultural practices to improving chemotherapy drugs whose side effects arise from their solubility or insolubility in water.
The United States is likely to be the world's largest market for solar power in a few years and this year's solar installations could double, reaching a gigawatt of capacity.
The growth had several likely causes, including decreasing prices for solar panels and installation costs, and increasing state incentives.
Z. Hong Zhou at the University of California, Los Angeles and colleagues have shown that the RNA and proteins in the rabies and vesicular stomatitis viruses wind together in a precise order, starting at the top of the bullet form, to form two nested helices.
The Wilkinson Anisotropy Microwave Probe (WMAP) team points out that if something as unlikely as Hawking's initials can be found in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, the chances of finding other apparently improbable patterns may also be quite high, and asks readers to mark the shapes they find in the CMB image.
Wireless power transmission, resonant magnetic coupling, infrared lasers are three methods of charging home appliances currently being researched, but safety concerns have been voiced.
Princeton University and UC Santa Barbara scientists have succeeded in trapping one or two individualelectrons to form spin qubits (quantum bits), allowing the electrons to behave quantum-mechanically for a long period of time.
Previous experiments affected all the electrons uniformly in their immediate surroundings and were slow. The new method allows for extremely fast quantum operations in the nanosecond domain and overcomes a major hurdle in the quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer.
Physical chemist Gregory Scholes of the University of Toronto and his colleagues have observed that energy introduced to light-harvesting systems of two species of photosynthetic algae acted in a distinctly quantum manner, even at ambient temperatures.
In these algae, bilin pigments, like other light-harvesting antenna molecules, absorb solar photons, which excite their electrons. The resulting excitation energy then moves to complexes of proteins called reaction centers, where it is converted to chemical energy by a series of biochemical events. While classical energy transfer theory predicts that the energy "hops, hops, hops" from one molecule to the next in a kind of "random walk," Scholes explained, quantum theory predicts that energy flows through the system in a much more spread-out, directed fashion.
The wave-like motion provides the energy with a "memory" of where it's been that eliminates some of the randomness of how it moves through the cell.
Endgame Systems of Atlanta has come up with a system called the Internet telescope that can map the physical location of computers infected with malicious software, or malware, used to run botnets (thousands of computers taken over to run malware). It can even identify the type of malware on the machine and preempt its next moves.
MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication. It's also the first germanium laser to operate at room temperature.
The National Science Foundation and the Microsoft Corporation have agreed to offer American scientific researchers free access to the company's new cloud computing service.
Ed Lazowska, a University of Washington computer scientist who works with the Microsoftresearchers, said the explosion of data being collected by scientists had transformed the staffing needs of the typical scientific researchprogram on campus from a half-time graduate student one day a week to a full-time employee dedicated to managing the data. He said such exponential growth in cost was increasingly hampering scientific research.
NASA and General Motors (GM) are developing humanoid robots that can work side-by-side with humans to help astronauts during dangerous mission and to help GM build cars and automotive plants.
Robonaut 2, aka R2, is designed to be a "faster, more dexterous and more technologically advanced" robot than Robonaut 1, using its hands to manipulate small parts, while also having exceptional strength.
Siri, a new iPhone app based on SRI International's ambitious CALO artificial intelligence project, transcribes spoken text and routes these commands to the right web services.
The company, for example, pulls concert data from StubHub, movie times from MovieTickets, movie reviews from Rotten Tomatoes, restaurant data from Yelp and you can order a taxi through TaxiMagic.
A team of researchers at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) plans to race an autonomous vehicle up the 14,000-foot Pikes Peak without a driver at race speeds, something never done before.
The Audi TTS, nicknamed Shelley, knows exactly where she is on the road by using a differential GPS. Unlike a standard GPSsystem, hers corrects for interference in the atmosphere, showing the car’s position on the Earth with an accuracy of about two centimeters. Shelley measures her speed and acceleration with wheel-speed sensors and an accelerometer, and gets her bearings from gyroscopes, which control equilibrium and direction.
The research may lead to safer cars that respond to human error.
Amazon has acquired Touchco, a New York start-up that was developing flexible, transparent, force-sensitive multitouch panels.
The acquisition indicates what Amazon might try to do next in response to Apple’s iPad announcement: a future full-color, more-rugged multitouch Kindle.
Darwinists say that evolution is explained by the selection of phenotypic traits (heritable biological properties) by environmental filters, but the effects of endogenous structure, such as gene regulatory networks, can wreak havoc with this theory.
So say cognitive scientists Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini in a new book, What Darwin Got Wrong.
"Pigs don't have wings, but that's not because winged pigs once lost out to wingless ones," they say. "And it's not because the pigs that lacked wings were more fertile than the pigs that had them. There never were any winged pigs because there's no place on pigs for the wings to go. This isn't environmental filtering, it's just physiological and developmental mechanics."
Masahiro Hotta at Tohoku University says he has developed a way to teleport energy by injecting quantum energy at one point in the universe and then exploiting quantum energy fluctuations to extract it from another point.
Hotta says that his approach also gives physicists a way of exploring the relationship between quantum information and quantum energy for the first time.
A patient thought to be in a vegetative state was able to correctly answer a series of yes or no questions, with responses interpreted via functional MRI (fMRI) brain imaging, a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed.
Researchers aim to develop simplified, inexpensive alternates to fMRI such as EEG devices, and brain cognitive interfaces that will allow patients to interact with their environment.
Taiwan-based Next Media has garnered millions of Web hits for its controversial animated news, using animators and actors in motion-capture suits to dramatize the day's news events to supplement actual news footage.
