This week’s Wetware related stuff in the media, including:
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Software that predicts customer behavior
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The flaws of an ever-changing web
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Robot receptionists
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The latest maps of the Internet
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A lobster-inspired robot
…and more.
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Yahoo! News on a test of lobster-inspired robot at Brooklyn College, New York.
Robo-lobsters may one day roam the seas for scents
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Slashdot on the flaws of an ever-changing web.
Web Pages Are Weak Links in the Chain of Knowledge
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Joho the Blog on software to help you skim through documents.
…followed by an automated summary of the Book of Genesis in 10 sentances, courtesy of Microsoft Word.
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Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends and Nature Science Update on a new robot receptionist. Ok, robots are useful for many things, but this is one of the last places they will excel in my opinion.
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Slashdot had a story on the latest maps of the Internet by the Opte.org project. Beautiful!
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AI guru Ray Kurzweil got a patent on poetic software that imitates the styles of known human poets. Slashdot ran a story.
Kurzweil Gets A Patent For Poetic Software
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A most interesting article on Nature Science Update on research of the fractal nature of coastlines. I guess someone won a major award for his use of fjords on the coast of Norway.
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The predictive nature of humans is always as interesting. Yahoo News is running a piece on how SPSS is using their tools to predict customer behavior:
New Software Helps Predict Customer Behavior
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Wired Magazine ran an article on how to build computers that care about their users.
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Nature reviews on the first fruits of GENSAT (Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas), a project based at Rockefeller University that aims to provide a complete gene expression map of the mouse brain.
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