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Wednesday December 5, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Biophysicists unravel cellular ‘traffic jams’ in active transport High-energy physicists smash records for network data transfer Next year’s 3D printers Exploding killer plasmonic nanobubbles! Squirrel and bird deception techniques inspire military-robot design NASA Mars rover fully analyzes first soil samples An algorithm for speech-based emotion classification Latest News Biophysicists unravel cellular ‘traffic jams’ in active transport December 5, 2012   UMass Amherst biophysicists, using a unique microscope, have improved upon earlier studies that used too-simple models not able to account for the densely crowded, dynamic conditions of a active transport in a real cell Inside many growing cells, an active transport system runs on nano-sized microtubule tracks that resemble a highway, complete with motors carrying … more… High-energy physicists smash records for network data transfer December 5, 2012   Physicists led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have smashed yet another series of records for data-transfer speed. The international team of high-energy physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers reached a transfer rate of 339 gigabits per second (Gbps) — equivalent to moving four million gigabytes (or one million full length movies) per day, … more… Next year’s 3D printers December 5, 2012   The 3-D printing industry is on track to be a $3.1 billion business by 2016 and the innovations on display this week at Euromold, a manufacturing trade show, show its foundation is growing — both in revenue and in physical print size, Wired News reports. Objet 1000 The big news out of Euromold is the … more… Exploding killer plasmonic nanobubbles! December 5, 2012   Researchers at Rice University have found a way to kill some diseased cells, including cancer cells, and treat others at the same time. The process, activated by a pulse of laser light, leaves neighboring healthy cells untouched. The process, which uses “tunable plasmonic nanobubbles” developed in the Rice lab of Dmitri Lapotko, shows promise to replace … more… Squirrel and bird deception techniques inspire military-robot design December 5, 2012   Using deceptive behavioral patterns of squirrels and birds, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed robots that are able to deceive each other. The research is led by Professor Ronald Arkin, a Regents Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing, who suggests the applications could be implemented by the military in the … more… NASA Mars rover fully analyzes first soil samples December 5, 2012   NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil, including water and sulfur and chlorine-containing substances. The rover’s laboratory includes the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite and the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument. SAM used … more… An algorithm for speech-based emotion classification December 5, 2012   University of Rochester engineers have developed a computer program that gauges human feelings by analyzing 12 features of speech, such as pitch and volume, to identify one of six emotions from a sound recording with 81 percent accuracy. The program has used to develop a prototype of an app that displays either a happy or sad … more… New books Nano author Robin Cook   After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical technology and the … more… The Human Face of Big Data author Rick Smolan, Jennifer Erwitt   The images and stories captured in The Human Face of Big Data are the result of an extraordinary artistic, technical, and logistical juggling act aimed at capturing the human face of the Big Data Revolution. Big Data is defined as the real time collection, analyses, and visualization of vast amounts of the information.  In the hands of … more… Latest Kurzweil Collection posts An artificially intelligent future: Ray Kurzweil on engineering the brain   Source: The Telepraph — November 28, 2012 | Roger Highfield Ray Kurzweil foresees a disease-free world where no one ages and artificial brains make machines human-like — and he is not one to get things wrong. He is a pioneer, exploring a hinterland that lies just beyond the horizon of current possibilities; a twilight zone between science fact and fiction, between predictions rooted in existing … more… Read full article here Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.