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Issue 14	September 16, 2010
This newsletter is for thinking people who has any interest in Artificial Intelligence Welcome! Homeland Security to test iris scanners The Homeland Security Department plans to test futuristic iris scan technology that stores digital images of people's eyes in a database and is considered a quicker alternative to fingerprints. The department will run a two-week test in October of commercially sold iris scanners at a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, where they will be used on illegal immigrants, said Arun Vemury, program manager at the department's Science and Technology branch Read full story   Artificial Life Invites You to Be the Next Gladiator in "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" iPhone Game Artificial Life, Inc.  today announced the "Be A Gladiator" contest for the official "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" iPhone game to celebrate its success on Apple's App Store. The winner of the contest will be able to have his or her face represented as one of the Gladiators in the game!   The "Be A Gladiator" contest is open worldwide from September 7, 2010 (Tuesday) to October 7, 2010 (Thursday). Players can enter the contest by publishing their results in the game's Story Mode onto Facebook. Read full story NU (Northwestern University) prof: Computer research no joke Have you heard the one about the Northwestern University researcher who scored a bundle of federal stimulus cash -- a $712,883 grant -- to create joke-telling software? It's no joke. Read full story Will Google Destroy Itself? Google recently announced a new machine learning engine that it will make available to software developers. Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) in which an application can learn from processing real data and become more proficient over time. By making the tool available, Google will enable businesses and entrepreneurs to use AI in wide range of new applications. Read full story 'Creative Artificial Intelligence' May Put Crappy Graphic Designers Out of Work The user inputs the type of product and the general message of a given ad, and CAI then spits out three different layouts from its collection of stock photos and sample copy Read full story Web Sites Protected Using an AI Engine BinarySEC , www.binarysec.com, a French company that is looking for partners in the United States and the rest of Europe, has introduced a state-of-the-art firewall and antivirus Web application known as WebFense. Unlike tools that are based on signatures and handwritten filters, WebFense features an artificial-intelligence (AI) engine that can learn which requests are legitimate. It analyses incoming traffic and, over time, blocks requests deemed to be malicious. The learning process lasts for one week, during which time the website remains fully operational. The engine can manage several hundred million requests per hour and the web-caching system produces an acceleration of between 10% and 200%.   Read full story Engineers make artificial skin out of nanowires Engineers at UC Berkeley have developed “e-skin,” a pressure-sensitive electronic material from semiconductor nanowires that functions like the human skin, which means incorporating the ability to feel and touch objects.   Read full story Food For Cities Project Within the next decade you will be able to grow all of your vegetables in a box barely larger than your refrigerator. This surprising statement is the result of a class project at Singularity University this summer. Here’s how we came to believe that this is true .   Read full story Remote Control of Brain Activity Using Ultrasound  The School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University has engineered a novel technology which implements transcranial pulsed ultrasound to remotely and directly stimulate brain circuits without requiring surgery. Further, this ultrasonic neuromodulation approach confers a spatial resolution approximately five times greater than TMS and can exert its effects upon subcortical brain circuits deep within the brain.   Read full story To subscribe  or  unsubscribe to this newsletter Contact Us. Don't forget to write your email address to unsubscribe To   read  previous issues of Newsletter  click here