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Monday February 18, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Obama seeking to boost study of human brain Quantum cryptography to protect electric grid security How the brain quickly rebounds from injuries Tongue-tingling interface lets you taste data Do we live inside a mathematical equation? Latest News Obama seeking to boost study of human brain February 18, 2013   The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics, The New York Times reports. The project, which the administration has been looking to unveil as … more… Quantum cryptography to protect electric grid security February 18, 2013   Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have completed the first-ever demonstration of using quantum cryptography to make control data for electric grids secure  . Controllers for the electric distribution grid tend to be  vulnerable to intrusion. The electric grid also needs to accommodate new renewable energy sources, such as solar panels and wind generators, because their … more… How the brain quickly rebounds from injuries February 18, 2013   Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University‘s Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging (CCBI) have used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover exactly how the human brain adapts to injury. When one brain area loses functionality, a “back-up” team of secondary brain areas immediately activates, replacing not only the unavailable area but also its confederates (connected areas), … more… Tongue-tingling interface lets you taste data February 18, 2013   Gershon Dublon of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has devised the Tongueduino — a small pad containing electrodes in a 5 × 5 grid,  New Scientist reports. When hooked up to an electronic sensor, the pad converts signals from the sensor into small pulses of electric current across the grid, which the tongue “reads” as … more… Do we live inside a mathematical equation? February 18, 2013   Reality is a mathematical structure, says MIT physicist Max Tegmark — his “mathematical universe hypothesis,” reports Science Now. “If the mathematical universe hypothesis is false, that means that the future of physics is ultimately doomed,” says Tegmark. However, “if the mathematical universe hypothesis is true, we can actually learn things about the parts of our … more… New VIDEOS   20th Century Fox | Google featured in The Internship with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson Latest Kurzweil Collection posts How to make a mind   Source: The Futurist — February 15, 2013 | Ray Kurzweil Can nonbiological brains have real minds of their own? In this article, drawn from his latest book, futurist/inventor Ray Kurzweil describes the future of intelligence — artificial and otherwise. “The mammalian brain has a distinct aptitude not found in any other class of animal. We are capable of hierarchical thinking, of understanding a structure composed of diverse … more… Read full article here Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.