Blog of popular science about the more exiting branches of computer science.
Sorted by "More visited"
visits
6933
votes
-6
Posted on: Jun, 29th 2010
The technological singularity it can be defined as a moment in the future where we will create an intelligence with the capacity to make another that surpass itself, at the same time, this new intelligence could do the same. This fact would trigger an exponential increment of intelligence and technology until the infinite, surpassing our intelligence and all our technology. If this happens our live would change in a totally unpredictable way. Enter into "The Blue Brain project and the technological singularity"
visits
5755
votes
-4
Posted on: Jun, 25th 2010
Was the year 1996 when the professor Weizenbaum created ELIZA, the first chatbot application and the first that the human could use to talk about their problems, because was a psychotherapist. Later, in 1971, Colby, Weber and Hilf developed PARRY, another chatbot, but this time was a paranoid schizophrenic made to chat with ELIZA. So they hooked up at ARPANET (pre-Internet) and put them to chat together. Do you want to know what happened? Fill your mind with "When the machines talked to each other"
visits
4344
votes
31
Posted on: Nov, 26th 2010
The new Xbox 360 peripheral has a multiarray microphone that is capable of separate the voices that there are in front of the device from the others sounds of the enviroment to chat and use voice commands. Here you will learn how is done this difficult task. Finish reading "Kinect: How works its multiarray microphone "
visits
2932
votes
5
Posted on: Aug, 20th 2010
The virtual reality is the creation of 3D interactive worlds by computer, with the intention of immerse the user in another reality. To this, normally, is used goggles that has an screen for each eye, creating the sensation of be in a 3D world around us everywhere. See here how has evolved this discipline. Enter into "Evolution of the virtual reality"
visits
2516
votes
103
Posted on: Nov, 23rd 2010
Microsoft wants that we can play with the Xbox 360 moving us in front of the screen. For that have spend hundreds of millions of dollars in develop a device to realize the recognition and the tracking, not only of a complete person but several ones, including also 3D information, its name is Kinect. In this post you will discover how works the hardware and the artificial intelligence algorithms that uses. Finish reading "Kinect: How works its 3D body tracking"
visits
2482
votes
-9
Posted on: Sep, 21st 2010
Today I woke up philosophical so I'm going to explain the famous Turing test.
The Turing test was proposed in a scientific paper called "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", wrote by Alan Turing in 1950. This is a test that must surpass a machine in order to show that it is intelligent. Enter into "The Turing test and the Chinese room"
visits
1521
votes
-11
Posted on: Feb, 1st 2011
Through the optical nerves, our eyes are connected to the visual cortex or cortex V1 located in the back part of the brain. If we decode the way in that the retinas of our eyes encode the information and how is interpreted after by the brain, we could connect a cable on the rear part of the head of a person to recreate in the brain an alternative reality. This seems take it from the script of Matrix, have already done to return the vision the blinds. Continue discovering "The bionic eye"
visits
1503
votes
-22
Posted on: Feb, 25th 2013
The RGB color model is a great invention which allows that with the mixture of different intensities of red, green and blue, any monitor or television can reproduce the colors of the reality. But ... how is it achieve? and why the colors of the model aren't others? The answer is in our eyes.
The retina is the part of the eye where we capture the light, and this is made thanks to a kind of modified neurons for detect photons: the rods and the cones.
Show more of "Why RGB?"visits
1195
votes
-2
Posted on: Dec, 19th 2011
There are a lot of robots that simulate the behavior and imitate the form, structure and movements of some animals. The engineers copy them because they know that the evolution had have millions of years to get solutions that gives the maximum performance with the minimum energy expenditure, so reproduce the nature allow us resolve problems that in otherwise hardly we could resolve. Read all about of "Robots with body inspired by animals"
visits
1159
votes
-23
Posted on: Jun, 11th 2010
Do you remember that futuristic movie called Minority Report? In this movie appears Tom Cruise controlling a computer making gestures with both hands. This an idea that today is quite impressive but, really, wasn't nothing new in the 2002 when appears this film, in fact in that times it was possible make this without the need of using gloves. Read the rest of "The gestural Interface of Minority Report wasn't a new idea"
visits
1023
votes
323
Posted on: Dec, 14th 2010
In one of the posts where I explained the how Kinect works, I said that wouldn't be strange that it will be use to build robots. Now are emerging the first robotic machines that someday will rebel and will begin to kill humans. Here I talk about some of them. Deep in "Robots, Kinect and the SLAM problem"
1 2 3 4 5 6 Old >