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Monday February 11, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Microscopic 3D printing Watson provides cancer treatment options to doctors in seconds Peering into living cells at the nanoscale without chemicals Researchers control animals’ movements with light Artificial bone scaffold combines stem cells and plastic to heal broken bones What comes after the cloud? How about the fog? Ask Ray | How to Create a Mind thought experiment How to lab-test your brain with an iPhone Latest News Microscopic 3D printing February 11, 2013   Nanoscribe GmbH, a spin-off of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has developed the world’s fastest 3D printer of micro- and nanostructures, the German company claims. With this printer, three-dimensional objects, often smaller than the diameter of a human hair, can be manufactured with minimum time consumption and maximum resolution. The printer is based on a … more… Watson provides cancer treatment options to doctors in seconds February 11, 2013   IBM and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center unveiled Friday the first commercially developed Watson-based cognitive computing breakthroughs. These innovations stand alone to help transform the quality and speed of care delivered to patients through individualized, evidence based medicine, says IBM. For more than a year, IBM has partnered separately with WellPoint and Memorial Sloan-Kettering to train … more… Peering into living cells at the nanoscale without chemicals February 11, 2013   Two EPFL researchers have designed a device that combines holographic microscopy and computational image processing to observe living biological tissues at the nanoscale. Going beyond conventional microscopes, they can acquire images of living cells in just a few minutes at a resolution of less than 100 nanometers — without using contrast dyes or fluorescents, to … more… Researchers control animals’ movements with light February 11, 2013   A drug-like molecule called “optovin” has been found to let researchers control movements in mice and fish with flashes of light. Unlike similar experiments using a light-based technique known as optogenetics, to achieve the neural control, the new method doesn’t require researchers to genetically engineer animals, MIT Technology Review reports. The techniques is a powerful … more… Artificial bone scaffold combines stem cells and plastic to heal broken bones February 11, 2013   To improve bone healing, researchers at Edinburgh and Southampton universities have used a honeycomb scaffold structure, which allows blood to flow through it, enabling stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow to attach to the material and grow new bone. Over time, the plastic slowly degrades as the implant is replaced by newly grown bone. … more… What comes after the cloud? How about the fog? February 11, 2013   Startup Symform thinks it can provide better disaster resilience than even data centers hundreds of miles apart. And, says Bassam Tabbara, Symform cofounder and Chief Technical Officer, it can do that in a way that’s extremely cheap — and in some cases free — to its customers, Tekla Perry writes on IEEE Spectrum. Tabbara describes … more… How to lab-test your brain with an iPhone February 10, 2013   Suggestion: for better validity, download and try the free iDichotic iOS app first before continuing to read this. I found it very interesting.  — Editor A new study shows that an iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc.) app yields results on a dichotic listening test that are as reliable as laboratory tests. Two years ago, psychology researcher Josef Bless was … more… New BLOG POSTS Ask Ray | How to Create a Mind thought experiment February 10, 2013   Ray, I just finished reading How to Create a Mind. I found it both interesting and informative. At the end, I believe that there is an inherent difference between a human brain and an AI system, a difference that can’t be overcome by any amount of added speed and capacity. To illustrate this difference I have included a thought experiment: … more… Latest Kurzweil Collection posts Ask Ray | How to Create a Mind thought experiment   Ray, I just finished reading How to Create a Mind. I found it both interesting and informative. At the end, I believe that there is an inherent difference between a human brain and an AI system, a difference that can’t be overcome by any amount of added speed and capacity. To illustrate this difference I have included a thought experiment: … more… 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|*.