Results for “Computer Chaos Club”

later than this evening. I don’t recommend using Outlook or computerized to-do lists, because it is possible to add an infinite number of items. I use a standard piece of paper folded in half three times, which fits perfectly in the pocket and limits you to noting only a few item...

…(dependent variables) resulting from smooth changes in parameters (independent variables). Alerted to their presence in computer experiments with biologically relevant nonlinear differential equations, these phenomena have since been found in time series from patch clamped membra...

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von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but through this bypath of neural networks. But simple neural networks didn’t do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the la...

…Electronic Army a year before they were hijacking famous websites, injecting world-class malicious code into opposition computers and demonstrating a digital attack fluency. 21° Of course the charming side of such a shift is evident too: Walk the Vatican with an historian in your...

…er him one of the most intelligent people on the planet. His opponent, Deep Blue, is a massively parallel chess-playing computer built by IBM’s Watson Research Laboratory. The machine itself sits a few blocks north of the tournament in an air-conditioned room, and relays the move...

…lly, and they've asked for another 5 episodes. I so want Woody to be one of those. I'd like to see the haiku written by computer. Haiku is not that hard. I'd like to see an elegy written by computer. Lisa Elisa New Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Harvard Universi...

…e consciousness as more of a visual dialogue. It’s hard to pin down consciousness as the difference between humans and computers. Computers do have something that resembles consciousness; they have watchdog functions, they plan and anticipate actions and are aware of their own e...

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but through this bypath of neural networks. But simple neural networks didn’t do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the la...

32 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? it's software that matters. A great computer game is great because it is cleverly written and has beautiful graphics. The speed of the hardware might help, but it does not define ‘great’ Can we see these software effects in the brain? No, unfo...

… something else: one person who loves another. Give me a name and I can look up the person they love. This is simple. A computer can easily solve such problems. Indeed there are hundreds of websites doing this every day. Once you've solved one problem of this type, you have solve...

…ibition “Cybernetic Serendipity” at London’s ICA. (The “Cybernetic” in her title was intended to evoke “made by or with computers,” even though most of the artworks on view had no computers, as such, in their responsive circuits.) The two decades between 1948 and 1968 had seen bo...

…human subjects, after taking a battery of personality inventories, were asked to remove as many dots as possible from a computer screen full of them in three minutes. They were to do so by left clicking on each of them with the mouse key. Two seconds after a dot was removed, it r...

…companies acted less like management consultants and more like temporary employment agencies in finding for the NSA the computer specialists, who had the necessary security clearances. Unlike intelligence services, their fate depended on turning profits. Since the value of their...

I can report that although my computer can beat me at chess