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Publishing Innovation Awards Pick the Best Comic Book App of 2011 PR Web (press release) It is the second consecutive time that Robot Media has won a Publishing Innovation Award, receiving its previous award for the mobile comic Robot 13. Other winners of this edition include Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged from Penguin USA and Decoded by Jay-Z ...

Link Ink: 'Groo vs. Conan' Coming in April, a TARDIS Purse and Early 'Robot ... ComicsAlliance [Collider] Fresh Ink! Online: Blair Butler and Qore host Tiffany Smith talk Fatale, Rachel Rising, The Avengers annual, Animal Man, X23, DMZ, Penguin, Uncanny X-Force and The Cape in this week's Fresh Ink! Online. [G4] Threads: LIMOchi's stylin' TARDIS ...

Science Fiction/Fantasy Reviews, January 2012 Library Journal DAW, dist. by Penguin. (Crescent Moon Kingdoms, Bk. 1). Feb. 2012. c.288p. ISBN 9780756407117. $24.95. FANTASY When the niece of a woman once dear to him is murdered by a demon, Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, the last of the true ghul (ghoul) hunters, ...

Scribblenauts Remix - You Don't Want to Miss It AppCraver Still, just because you can conjure a nuclear weapon or a robot penguin doesn't necessarily mean it will help Maxwell solve the level – but then again it might. Scribblenauts Remix is a game that is all about imagination and creative problem solving. and more »

Scientific American Human Waste-Powered Robots May Be Future of Machines Scientific American Image: Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK Today's robots that fly, jump or roll around must refuel or recharge as does any gadget that runs out of energy. Tomorrow's new generation of self-sustaining robots might keep going nearly forever by grazing on ... Poop-Powered Robot: EcoBot-III From Bristol Robotics LaboratoryHuffington Post all 2 news articles »

TNT Magazine Flying Robotic Swarm of Nano Quadrotors Gets Millions of Views, New Company Singularity Hub by Aaron Saenz February 5th, 2012 | Comments (0) These acrobatic robots can launch themselves through rings, duck and weave around obstacles, and even fly through your bedroom window. Hell, they can construct your bedroom window. This Week In Bots: Nothing's Gonna Stop Them Now--The Robot Revolution Is ...Fast Company Video: Amazing mini robot helicopter Nano Quadrotors flying in swarmTNT Magazine all 4 news articles »

Stuff.co.nz Romo the smartphone robot raises $1.5M, seeks world domination CNET And yet, that's exactly how Keller Rinaudo, the 24-year-old co-founder and CEO of robot maker Romotive, began his meetings with investors last fall. The upshot: Success way beyond what he had ever imagined. Rinaudo recently closed a $1.5 million first ... Robots bring beer but Rosie still takes cakeStuff.co.nz all 2 news articles »

Boston Globe Robot ethics won't clean up combat Boston Globe Software would program robotic weapons to act ethically, such as only being able to fire in situations that conform to the Geneva Conventions. The argument is that while soldiers sometimes let emotions of anger or hate get the worst of them and commit ... and more »

Can A Robot Improvise Comedy? KERO-TV 23 So why are we so much better at improvising than robots -- which are essentially mechanical devices controlled by computers? You'd think that, by now, some form of artificial intelligence -- the iPhone's Siri or "Jeopardy's" Watson or perhaps some ... Roboticist sees improvisation through machine's eyesCNN all 41 news articles »

Robotic surgery surges Shreveport Times Robotic Surgery: For some patients undergoing surgery at Willis-Knighton in Shreveport, a new piece of tech is making their procedures quicker and less invasive as doctors use the da Vinci medical robot in the operating room. Greg Milder (right) stands ... and more »

Chocolate sculptress' inspirations range from 'Metropolis' to robots BurlingtonFreePress.com “I love robots. A lot,” Jones said. Chocobots are made completely “of bowls and cups I've found.” Robots are only one aspect of Jones's favorite theme: the retro. From classic 1950s imagery to the magical “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” book, ... and more »

Technabob (blog) Crab-like Robot Removes Stomach Cancer, Doesn't Crawl Sideways Technabob (blog) Researchers from Singapore have created a small robot designed to remove stomach cancer in its early stages. Ironically, this tiny robot looks like a crab, since it uses a pincer and a hook to do the job. A robot that fights cancer, that looks like a ... Crab dinner inspires cancer-removing robotCNET (blog) Chili Crab Dinner Inspires Robot That Crawls Down Your Throat To Grab Your CancerPopular Science Mini Crab-Like Robot Removes Stomach CancerMedgadget.com WebProNews -SlashGear -Geeky gadgets all 17 news articles »

Heat Seeking Robot Absorbs and Shares The Warmth In Your Home Gizmodo It's useless for keeping your floors clean, but those of us living in colder climates will certainly appreciate this concept Hagent robot that seeks out the warmest places in your home, absorbing the heat to share with you later.

News Pakistan Kids Prefer Robots To Teachers And Parents Forbes A new study finds that kids not only love robots, but also that robots benefit kids in the classroom. The implications of this “benefit,” however, might not seem so benign on closer examination. The study, “Robots @ School,” was implemented by Latitude ... LEGO-sponsored study: Kids think robots are cooler than parents, teachersSlashGear Why kids like robots more than families and schools: A recent Study Reveals ...News Pakistan all 6 news articles »

Will Artificial Intelligence be America's Next Big Thing? Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies In the next decade, the United States will use increasingly capable artificial intelligence (AI) to greatly reduce the cost of health care, accelerate research and development into new medicines, improve cars and roads to reduce gridlock, ...

Artificial Intelligence: Getting Better at the Age Guessing Game Science Daily (press release) Scientists are developing artificial intelligence solutions for image processing, which have applications in many areas including advertising, entertainment, education and healthcare. They have, for example, developed computer algorithms for facial age ...

msnbc.com Stanford Takes Online Schooling To The Next Academic Level NPR (blog) by Steve Henn Stanford Engineering's Online Introduction To Artificial Intelligence is made up of videos that teach lessons by drawing them out with pen and paper. Stanford Engineering's Online Introduction To Artificial Intelligence is made up of ... Udacity and the future of online universitiesReuters Blogs (blog) Massive Courses, Sans StanfordInside Higher Ed The Great Unbundling of the UniversityThe Atlantic Geekosystem -iProgrammer -Fellow GEEK all 31 news articles »

Pocket-lint.com It's A Virtual Assistant Catfight - Evi Arrives To Compete Head-To-Head With Siri AppAdvice One of the main reasons I got an iPhone 4S was because of Siri – search engine with natural language processing, artificial intelligence with a bit of humor, and even conversational. Siri was a complete package. However, a new app has surfaced in the ... Evi arrives in town to go toe-to-toe with SiriTechCrunch Evi takes on Siri for your artificial affectionPocket-lint.com Evi Artificial Intelligence Released for iOS and Android: Is It Better than Siri?International Business Times Herald Sun -Mac Rumors -iPhoneAppFreelancer.com (blog) all 78 news articles »

TechCrunch The Surprising Path Of Artificial Intelligence TechCrunch And 54 years ago, Artificial Intelligence pioneer Herbert Simon declared “there are now in the world machines that think” and predicted that a computer would be world chess champion within 10 years. Though we made it to the moon the efforts in cancer ... Mobile Apps the Front End to Big Data and Artificial IntelligenceSYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) all 3 news articles »

PR Web (press release) International Collegiate Code Wars: Artificial Intelligence Showdown Saturday PR Web (press release) This Saturday, January 28, hundreds of students from the top schools in North America will be writing artificial intelligence programs meant to conquer. The Windward International collegiate programming championship is a co-ed game fought with ... and more »

Robopocalypse Now Science 2.0 Robopocalypse, see also here on Boing Boing, is a novel by roboticist Daniel Wilson, who foretells a global apocalypse brought on by artificial Intelligence (AI) that hijacks automation systems globally and uses them to wipe out humanity.

Roboticist sees improvisation through machine's eyes CNN You'd think that, by now, some form of artificial intelligence -- the iPhone's Siri or "Jeopardy's" Watson or perhaps some combination of IBM's Deep Blue and MIT's Kismet -- would have been able to meet the challenge. But Data -- named for the "Star ... and more »

Customer Service Gets Smart with Artificial Intelligence Destination CRM Thankfully for customer care professionals, a new generation of self-organizing, self-service support is being powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can be used for standalone or in multichannel support scenarios such as assisted care, IVR, ...

Mirantis Engineers Dominate Google's Artificial Intelligence Programming ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Mirantis, an engineering services firm delivering OpenStack and application infrastructure expertise, is the only commercial organization in the world whose engineers took three of the top 50 places in Google's Fall 2011 Artificial Intelligence (AI) ... and more »

MassLive.com Sen. Scott Brown meets workers and robots at growing Eastern Mass. robotics ... MassLive.com s Wilmington, Mass. production facility where robots to automate warehouses are manufactured. (Photo courtesy of Symbotic LLC.'s Facebook page) WILMINGTON, Mass. - As part of his ongoing campaign tour across the Bay State, Republican US Sen. Senator Scott Brown Visits Symbotic in Wilmington, MAPR Web (press release) all 4 news articles »

Gill St. Bernard's School student, robotics team wins SPHERES Challenge MyCentralJersey.com Photo courtesy of Gill St. Bernard's School PEAPACK-GLADSTONE — GSB junior Ben Brown of Warren and his robotics team (Alliance Rocket – a compilation of three teams) won the Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge 2011 contest sponsored by the National ... and more »

Las Vegas Sun Mojave High School's new focus on science curriculum embedded in robotics club Las Vegas Sun Teacher Mary Felber troubleshoots a problem with a robot with sophomore Sarah Kane at Mojave High School Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. Senior Marco Garcia is at right. By Paul Takahashi (contact) This is another in a yearlong series of stories tracking Clark ... and more »

PhysOrg.com Airborne robot swarms are making complex moves (w/ video) PhysOrg.com (PhysOrg.com) -- The GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania this week released a video that shows their new look in GRASP Lab robotic flying devices. They are now showing flying devices with more complex behavior than before, in a fleet of flying ... New Agile Flying Robots Travel In FleetRedOrbit Swarming their way (gracefully) to a warzone: Amazing flying display by ...Daily Mail Nano quadrotor swarm hints at the robotic air force of the futureThe Verge Popular Science all 47 news articles »

Wheels. Legs. This robot has both CNET (blog) by Christopher MacManus February 3, 2012 1:25 PM PST Follow @sonyinsider Well, that might be an exaggeration, but this leg-wheel hybrid mobile robot is definitely a front-runner to star in my recurring robot domination nightmares. and more »

Vex Robotics Competition Between District 97's Middle Schools Julian and ... Oak Park Journal Oak Park Education Foundation's 7th annual Vex Robotics competition is a great event that allows children with many varied interests and talents to work together to build, design, support, and control the use of robotics in a competitive environment. and more »

Cray Unifies Midrange Supercomputers on XE6, XK6 Architectures Server Watch By Thor Olavsrud (Send Email) Supercomputer giant Cray Thursday signaled its intent to revitalize its efforts in midrange supercomputing, but customers may have to pay a bit more. Cray (NASDAQ:CRAY) has discontinued its previous entry-level offerings ... Cray Revamps Midrange Supercomputer OfferingsHPCwire Cray Launches New Midrange Initiative With Supercomputers Now Starting at $200000MarketWatch (press release) Seymour Cray Ushered In The Era Of SupercomputingInvestor's Business Daily BioArray News (blog) -TechEye -The Seattle Times (blog) all 14 news articles »

PR Web (press release) Digital Sports Group commission super computer for football.co.uk PR Web (press release) DSG have announced the imminent move to a blisteringly fast super-computer fuelled cloud for football.co.uk. The move heralds a serious challenge to competitor sites and it is claimed will make football.co.uk the fastest football site online. and more »

TechSpot Intel Sees Exabucks in Supercomputing's Future Wired News By Robert McMillan Meet "Maverick" the University of Texas at Austin's test supercomputer node, built with Intel's Knights Ferry test kit. The University is using this system to get ready for Intel's upcoming Knights Corner processor, which crams more ... Intel to Buy Some QLogic Networking AssetsWall Street Journal Intel Buys Infiniband Unit From Qlogic for $125MABC News Intel Acquires QLogic's InfiniBand FranchiseeWeek San Francisco Chronicle all 168 news articles »

TechEye Blue Waters petaflop supercomputer installation begins Geek Blue Waters will be one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet when it finally gets built. Its sustained performance is expected to exceed 1 petaflop, which will be put to good use tackling real-world problems in the fields of science and ... Blue Waters supercomputer installation begins, promises a petaflop of ...The Verge Work started on Blue Waters supercomputerTechEye Cray delivers first Blue Waters componentsChampaign/Urbana News-Gazette all 4 news articles »

ComputerWeekly.com (blog) IBM supercomputer to hit 20 petaflops, doubles fastest in TOP500 ComputerWeekly.com (blog) By Adrian Bridgwater on February 2, 2012 8:55 AM | No Comments Last November IBM announced its next generation supercomputing project, Blue Gene/Q, a project undertaken by software application developers and other computer scientists to build an ... Rogue Wave Delivers Early Version of TotalView Debugger for Blue Gene/Q ...HPCwire all 2 news articles »

Earth Simulator Supercomputer Used to Forecast 2012 Climate Patterns HPCwire His supercomputer-driven models show a direct link between recently discovered climate variation phenomena in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and weather patterns in those vast areas. Industrial applications of these long-term weather and ocean forecasts ... and more »

University of Illinois supercomputer installation to start Chicago Tribune CHAMPAIGN -- The first pieces of the long-planned Blue Waters supercomputer are expected to be installed this weekend at the University of Illinois. Trish Barker is a spokeswoman for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. U of Ill. supercomputer installation to startThe Seattle Times all 20 news articles »

Fortune Medicine gets 'super power' ITWorld Canada Find out what a Canadian pathologist thinks about having computers as colleagues Supercomputers can be handy medical assistants, IT experts and doctors agree. But not every hospital needs one as smart as IBM's Watson. IBM Corp. has recently offered the ... IBM's Watson is changing careersFortune all 3 news articles »

Latin America's Latest Supercomputer Fox News Picture of the supercomputer "Xiuhcoatl" (fire snake in Nahuatl language), the second in America behind Brazil, due to its size and velocity.EFE Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Mexican scientists inaugurated Latin America's No. and more »

Cray shrinks XE6m supers down to a rack Register By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Cray tried to sell Fords and Chevies when it launched the CX1000 entry supercomputer clusters launched back in March 2010. But to make its life easier, and to help bolster sales of its XE6 and XE6m ...

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