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Nerve-Electronic Hybrid Could Meld Mind and Machine

Nerve-cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining toward the sun.

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intrinsi on March 23rd 2011 in Biology, Hardware

Watson’s Win

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intrinsi on February 23rd 2011 in Artificial Intelligence, Hardware

Watson

What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?

For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution — “natural language,” as computer scientists call it — and respond with a precise, factual answer.

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intrinsi on June 19th 2010 in Artificial Intelligence, Hardware