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Posted on: Jul, 6th 2010

Soon Facebook will add the functionality of detect faces in the photos that we upload. Now only a limited number of user can enjoy this feature. But, When will arrive the face recognition? Read more of "From the detection to the recognition of faces in Facebook"
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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. Continue reading "The Blue Brain project and the technological singularity"
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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? Read more of "When the machines talked to each other"
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Posted on: Jun, 18th 2010

Gordon Moore, one of the Intel founders, published in a magazine of 1965 a "law" known as Moore's Law, that tells: "the number of transistor of a processor doubles every 24 month". Can be interpreted as: "every two years the processors are twice fast at the same price". That "law" it's satisfied every year, but, Will stop at sometime? Don't miss the rest of "Moore's Law: In two years your new computer will be obsolete"
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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. Continue reading "The gestural Interface of Minority Report wasn't a new idea"
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Posted on: Jun, 8th 2010

Welcome to Computable Minds, a new blog of popular science and curiosities focused in the informatics and oriented for all kind of people. Even if you don't like informatics I'm sure you found it interesting, since the informatics, how the other sciences, always are related with all other sciences and the improvement of our lives. Surprise yourself with the rest of "Computable Minds a blog created from nothing"
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