A NASA sponsored Moon Buggy contest:
http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10000674-1.html?tag=mncol
April 7, 2009
Science Dictionary
the a href=”http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/”>top 10 words/a> to make their way from SF to standard usage.
http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/
PS.. I’ve slowed my blogging down significantly because I don’t want to put up with the formatting problems. It’s been so long I wonder if my messy urls are EVER going to be fixed! It’s a simple library update (that was caused by an overall upgrade on the server end), but I’m too small potatoes for them to take the three minutes to do the update. AAARGH!
April 3, 2009
April 2, 2009
Robot Overlords
This bears reading:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai.html
wherein a robot correctly deduces the law of conservation of momentum, and Newton’s second law of motion using only first principles. That is, the programmers gave the computer the ability to test and modify its theories, then the computer figured these laws out for itself. Also today is this:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10211175-1.html?part=rsstag=feedsubj=Crave
Wherein the robot “Adam” (ahem), becomes “the first machine to independently come up with new scientific findings.”
Exciting and a little disturbing.