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This newsletter is for thinking people who has any interest in Artificial Intelligence
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 Motion sickness reality in virtual world, too
Clemson University psychologist Eric Muth sees motion sickness as potential fallout from high-end technology that once was limited to the commercial marketplace moving to consumer use in gaming devices.
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 Word Lens iPhone app translates in front of your eyes - if you've got a steady hand
Twenty-eight months in the making, Quest Visual's Word Lens app translates the printed word using the iPhone's video camera. Its launch last week sent Twitter and the blogosphere into a frenzy. "This is what the future, literally, looks like," exclaimed TechCrunch.
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 The A.I. Revolution Is On
The fruits of the AI revolution are now all around us. Once researchers were freed from the burden of building a whole mind, they could construct a rich bestiary of digital fauna, which few would dispute possess something approaching intelligence. “If you told somebody in 1978, ‘You’re going to have this machine, and you’ll be able to type a few words and instantly get all of the world’s knowledge on that topic,’ they would probably consider that to be AI,” Google cofounder Larry Page says. “That seems routine now, but it’s a really big deal.”
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Software that detects faces created here
When people enter the Field Museum's animatronic dinosaur exhibit in Chicago, they not only encounter extremely lifelike creatures, but have the eerie sensation that the creatures are encountering them, too
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Algorithm could change politics— and more Special to the Online Edition of Windy City Times
The Chicago-based company has developed an artificial-intelligence program that could alter the way people view politics—and beyond. Thanks to information gathering, the algorithm could customize the types of political ads people receive, based on their own habits and interests.
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'Breathalyzers' May Be Useful for Medical Diagnostics
Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in developing breath-analysis technology to rapidly diagnose patients by detecting chemical compounds called "biomarkers" in a person's respiration in real time.
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 Can Google break the computer language barrier?
Ever since computers were a reality, the possibility of using their logistical power to break down barriers of language has been something of a holy grail in machine learning. The initial – unsuccessful – attempts were based on the principle that all languages could be distilled into two components: a lexicon of words with specific meanings, and a set of rules of grammar and syntax by which those words were linked together. The cold war prompted ambitious efforts by American intelligence agencies to understand the "code" of the Russian language on an industrial scale. It produced mostly gibberish.
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 Download Your Brain... Death Defeated?
Research is already under way to defeat death, involving medical scientists and artificial intelligence experts, focusing on creating the technology necessary to upload the brain's contents to a silicon support and then download it again into a new body. This is not science fiction.
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 Underwater Robots on Course to the Deep Sea
World Exclusive Premiere of FPS Trainer in Edinburgh Offers Gamers the Chance to Learn New Skills, Win Prizes & Beat a World Champion Professional Gamer.
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