Dharmendra S Modha’s, IBM Almaden, talk on his brain emulation project was one of the highlights of the 2008 Singularity Summit. The Brain Emulation Roadmap was not presented at the Singularity Summit ...

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At the annual Microsoft TechFest event—which began today at the company's headquarters in Redmond—Microsoft's senior vice president of research, Rich Rashid, announced that the source code of the ...

As computers get more and more powerful, a few wide-eyed enthusiasts are looking forward to the day -- in 2045, they say -- when machine intelligence will surpass that of humans. This event, called ...

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As the pace of technological change increases, some experts say it will eventually reach a point where machines surpass human intelligence. At that point, known to artificial intelligence proponents ...

Singularity is an experimental microkernel and operating system project started in 2003 for which Microsoft posted the source code back in March. Scott Finley, a researcher at the University of ...

It's been in development for nearly half a decade, but this year at Microsoft's R&D extravaganza TechFest, the company finally lifted the curtain on its research-oriented Singularity OS. Let's just be ...