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Wednesday March 20, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Under the skin, a tiny blood-testing laboratory DARPA seeks more robust military wireless networks Bringing a virtual brain to life Can control theory make software better? A 3D-printed Moon base baked from lunar dust New system would let you take a drug by just pressing your skin Latest News Under the skin, a tiny blood-testing laboratory March 20, 2013   EPFL scientists have developed a tiny, portable personal blood testing laboratory: a minuscule device implanted just under the skin provides an immediate analysis of substances in the body, and a radio module transmits the results to a doctor over the cellular phone network. This feat of miniaturization has many potential applications, including monitoring patients undergoing … more… DARPA seeks more robust military wireless networks March 20, 2013   DARPA has created the Wireless Network Defense program, which aims to develop new protocols that enable military wireless networks to remain operational despite inadvertent misconfigurations or malicious compromise of individual nodes. “Current security efforts focus on individual radios or nodes, rather than the network, so a single misconfigured or compromised radio could debilitate an entire … more… Bringing a virtual brain to life March 20, 2013   In 2009, Dr. Henry Markram conceived of the Human Brain Project, a sprawling and controversial initiative of more than 150 institutions around the world that he hopes will bring scientists together to realize his dream, as The New York Times notes. In January, the European Union raised the stakes by awarding the project a 10-year … more… Can control theory make software better? March 20, 2013   Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and a colleague at Georgia Tech have developed a method for applying principles from control theory — which analyzes dynamical systems ranging from robots to power grids — to formal verification,  a set of methods for mathematically proving that a computer program does what it’s … more… A 3D-printed Moon base baked from lunar dust March 20, 2013   Space architects have unveiled a concept for a 3D-printed Moon base called SinterHab near the lunar south pole. Modules would be constructed from lunar dust by microwave sintering and contour crafting, built by a large NASA spider robot. Unlike an earlier, more bulky concept using a mobile printing array of nozzles on a 6 meter … more… New system would let you take a drug by just pressing your skin March 20, 2013   An implantable gel material that can release drugs in response to pressure applied by a patient has been developed by researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. Oral administration of drugs may be difficult for patients experiencing nausea during cancer chemotherapy, for diabetics (to release insulin), and for other conditions. The idea … more… New EVENTS   BollyDoll: A Live Cinema Experience Dates: Mar 22, 2013 Location: Los Angeles, California more... Latest Kurzweil Collection posts Exclusive interview: Ray Kurzweil discusses his first two months at Google   Source: Singularity Hub — March 19, 2013 | David J. Hill In another exclusive interview with Singularity Hub, Ray Kurzweil provides an update about his first two months as Director of Engineering at Google. During the interview Kurzweil revealed that his team is collaborating with other groups at Google to enable computers to understand and speaking language just like humans. Kurzweil also tells us how Larry Page personally … 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|*.