This story was pointed out by a reader with the caveat, “We do our own erasing. Who needs the scientists?” Its so off-topic as to be off-color, and doesnt relate to Memory but to Memories, but its just too interesting to pass up, and humor is important lately (read: financial meltdown, credit default derivatives, [...]
Dating from May 2008, this NPR story was done shortly after the discovery by Stan Williams and HP Labs of a memristive material. From the synopsis:
“The possibility of such a circuit element, known as the “memristor,” was first described in 1971, but no one was able to find a device with the properties of that [...]
Its being reported in the nytimes that Toshiba is buying 1 billion US of equipment from California-based SanDisk, in part helping to harden SanDisks baseline fundamentals against the takeover bid by Samsung.
Samsung is currently ranked no. 1 in the memorychip maker market, while Toshiba holds the number 2 spot. SanDisk holds a variety of important [...]
The well known Loebner Turing Test Prize contest for artificial intelligence is waiting for the selection of a winner as it wrapped up its 2008 contest with six finalists for the preliminary phase: Elbot [Fred Roberts], Eugene Goostman [Vladimir Veselov], Brother Jerome [Peter Cole & Benji Adams], Jabberwacky [Rollo Carpenter], Alice [Richard Wallace], and [...]
