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Automating Invention is Robert Plotkin's blog on the impact of computer-automated inventing on the law (primarily patent law). The blog also explores the implications of computer-automated inventing for creativity, ethics, and high-tech industry.
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February 20, 2006
Automating Design
IlliGAL Blogging talks about how a company in Singapore named Genometri is using genetic algorithms in product design.
Posted by Robert at 1:40 PM
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Artificial Invention
February 16, 2006
"New" Interviews with ENIAC Co-Inventor J. Presper Eckert
ComputerWorld has posted portions of previously-unreleased interviews held with J. Presper Eckerthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC, co-inventor of ENIAC. In relation to automation, he discusses the shift from mechanical to electrical components in computers, and the shift from human "computers" to the electronic versions we have grown to know and love.
Posted by Robert at 9:27 AM
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History of Computing
February 6, 2006
Computer Thought Control
Nikkei Weekly reports that researchers at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research have developed software that allows a user to move an on-screen cursor using thought alone (see summary here). The software receives signals from an electroencephalograph, which monitors brain waves read by electrodes attached to the user's head.
Posted by Robert at 1:52 PM
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Miscellaneous
February 4, 2006
Software That Learns on the Job
TRN Research News reports that researchers at Princeton University have developed two "self-improving" algorithms, a sorting algorithm (which sorts data into a logical order) and a clustering algorithm (which groups similar items together).
Posted by Robert at 7:43 PM
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category:
Artificial Invention
February 3, 2006
The Spark of Co-Creation
In his new book Spark, John Winsor and 16 others discuss "co-creation," in which companies work collaboratively with their customers to create and improve their products and services. In other words, it is a collaboratively-written book about collaboration.
I see a parallel here between collaboration of businesses and their customers in "co-creation," and the "collaboration" of software and its users in interactive evolutionary computation.
Posted by Robert at 2:01 PM
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Human Creativity
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Technology Industry