Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Aug 18, 2012 | Bryan TX
Have you been looking for a compendium of modern tech at work? Well, thanks to the Pribek Site I am reminded of this cool site, Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence, for your viewing pleasure.
About Ray Kurzweil, " ... His uncle, an engineer at Bell Labs, taught young Ray the basics of computer science.[1] In his youth, he was an avid reader of science fiction literature. In 1963, at age fifteen, he wrote his first computer program.[2] Later in high school he created a pattern-recognition software program that analyzed the works of classical composers, and then synthesized its own songs in similar styles. (wikpda) ... "
News | KurzweilAI: "Sophisticated brain scans can be used to accurately predict age, give or take a year.“We have uncovered a ‘developmental clock’ of sorts within the brain — a biological signature of maturation that captures age differences quite well, regardless of other kinds of differences that exist across individuals,” says Timothy Brown of…
Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience"
'via Blog this'
Together with UCSD's Anders Dale and Terry Jernigan and researchers from nine other universities, Brown used structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of 885 people ranging in age from 3 to 20. Those brain scans were used to identify 231 biomarkers of brain anatomy that, when combined, could assess an individual's age with more than 92 percent accuracy. That's beyond what's been possible with any other biological measure, the researchers say. (Lyons, Lisa. 16 Aug 2012. LINK)
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/cp-bsd081312.php
http://www.melissamemorial.org/CMS/Show?id=18
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