Mark Tomlinson

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations, brain scans suggest

Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations, brain scans suggest

How memories form, fade, and persist over time - CNN.com

How memories form, fade, and persist over time - CNN.com

Cognitive science has always been a pet project of mine. Mostly (I imagine) due to the AI influences and background.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Robots at War: The New Battlefield

Robots at War: The New Battlefield: "It sounds like science fic­tion, but it is fact: On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghan­istan, robots are killing America’s ene­mies and sav­ing Ameri­can lives. But today’s Pack­Bots, Preda­tors, and Ravens are rela­tively prim­itive machines. The coming generation of “war-bots” will be im­mensely more sophisti­cated, and their devel­op­ment raises troubling new questions about how and when we wage ­war."

Warbots....ummm

Torvalds warns of Windows 7 threat - The Inquirer

Torvalds warns of Windows 7 threat - The Inquirer

No crap.