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Issue 9	June 24, 2010
This newsletter is for thinking people who has any interest in Artificial Intelligence Welcome! Three questions for Ray Kurzweil Kurzweil, 62, is credited with groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence, optical character recognition, text-to-speech technology, reading machines for the blind, and electronic music synthesizers. Kurzweil, who lives in Newton, Mass., responded to three questions from The Chronicle about what these ideas could mean for the future of business, technology and humankind. Read full story   Counterinsurgency Training by ‘Virtual Human’ Using artificial intelligence and the graphics techniques behind “Avatar,” a USC institute creates “virtual humans” and interactive immersions that train American soldiers to win hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan.   Click here Who is Watson? IBM creates computer that wants to play ‘Jeopardy!’ and that could be good Click here Robots Can Create Jobs, Too Industrial robots can help companies compete by boosting quality and productivity. That's ultimately a benefit for American labor Click here Computer Intelligence Predicts Human Visual Attention for First Time Scientists have just come several steps closer to understanding change blindness -- the well studied failure of humans to detect seemingly obvious changes to scenes around them -- with new research that used a computer-based model to predict what types of changes people are more likely to notice. Click here Raytheon BBN Technologies Achieves Quantum Information Breakthrough Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) BBN Technologies has achieved a major advance in quantum information technology with the coupling of light and superconductors.   Click here Researchers create self-assembling nanodevices that move and change shape on demand By emulating nature’s design principles, a team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has created nanodevices made of DNA that self-assemble and can be programmed to move and change shape on demand. In contrast to existing nanotechnologies, these programmable nanodevices are highly suitable for medical applications because DNA is both biocompatible and biodegradable   Click here High- Tech  Academy open a new Class: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Click here To subscribe  or  unsubscribe to this newsletter Click here Don't forget to write your email address to unsubscribe To   read  previous issues of Newsletter  Click here