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• Mouse cortex simulated on supercomputer

  IBM researchers have designed and implemented a massively parallel simulation of a mouse cortex, using a 4096-processor Blue Gene/L supercomputer. They represented 8 million ne... Read more
  Posted Sunday, April 29, 2007 10:19 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neurobiology, Computer simulations, Mind uploading

• The Problems in Modeling Nature, With Its Unruly Natural Tendencies

  A new book by Orrin H. Pilkey, a coastal geologist and emeritus professor at Duke, argues that nature is too complex and depends on too many processes that are poorly understood or little monitored to be modeled using computer programs.... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:17 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computer simulations

• Building the Cortex in Silicon

  Some of the world's biggest drug companies are finding that their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away. Novartis has helped uncover which of the 20,000 genes identified by the Human Genome Project are likely to be associated... Read more
  Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 9:07 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computer simulations

• Human metabolism recreated in lab

  University of California researchers have created a virtual model of all the biochemical reactions that occur in human cells. They hope the computer model will allow scientists to modify metabolic processes to find new treatments for conditions s... Read more
  Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 11:16 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computer simulations, Metabolism

• Computers Join Actors in Hybrids On Screen

  James Cameron's 2009 Avatar film will test new 3D hyrid technologies, combining live actors and digital technology to make a large cast of virtual creatures who convey emotion as authentically as humans. Their bodies will be filmed using the lates... Read more
  Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 9:06 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computer simulations, Virtual reality, Movies

• Nano Engineering Simulations

  The largest model ever simulated with NanoEngineer-1, a worm drive assembly designed by K. Eric Drexler, Josh Hall, Ninad Sathaye and Mark Sims, includes 11 components totalling 25,374 atoms. ... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:04 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology, Computer simulations

• Pass the Virtual Scalpel, Nurse

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers are developing a surgery simulator similar to the flight simulators used to train pilots. The medical training system would allow surgeons to manipulate virtual human organs in real time, learning and acqu... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:21 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computer simulations, Medical simulations

• Digital World Reveals Architecture of Evolution

  The architecture that pervades biological networks gives them an evolutionary edge by allowing them to evolve to perform new functions more rapidly than an alternative network design, according to computer simulations conducted at the University of C... Read more
  Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 11:16 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Evolution, Computer simulations