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Termination Rights – The Record Industry is Bracing for a Fight
“This is the year when everything was supposed to change for the music industry. In 1978, Congress amended copyright laws to allow authors or their heirs to terminate their copyright grants to...
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Word of the Week – Consciousness
We are conscious and other life is not. Machines can never be truly conscious because they don’t possess bodies and souls. True or false? To determine this, we have to take a hard look at what...
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Word of the Week – Dreaming
“Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively...
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Word of the Week – Autonomic Computing
“Autonomic computing refers to the self-managing characteristics of distributed computing resources, adapting to unpredictable changes while hiding intrinsic complexity to operators and users. … The...
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Word of the Week – Disclaimer
“A disclaimer is generally any statement intended to specify or delimit the scope of rights and obligations that may be exercised and enforced by parties in a legally recognized relationship. In...
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Word of the Week – Self-Stabilizing System
When artificial intelligence does evolve, who is to say we will even recognize it as intelligent? “Self-stabilization is a concept of fault-tolerance in distributed computing. A distributed system that...
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Word of the Week – Randomization & Memory
“Randomness means different things in various fields. Commonly, it means lack of pattern or predictability in events. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “random” as “Having no definite aim or...
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Word of the Week – Machine Learning
“Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is about the construction and study of systems that can learn from data. For example, a machine learning system could be trained on email...
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Word of the Week: Recursion
Recursion: “Recursion is the process of repeating items in a self-similar way. For instance, when the surfaces of two mirrors are exactly parallel with each other the nested images that occur are a...
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Where Do the Best Brains Come From?
Where do the best brains come from? Inquiring minds want to know. And a few Zombies have emailed me with questions, as well. Man or Machine Biomimetics has been gaining popularity as computational...
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