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Thanksgiving Bits
An anonymous reader writes "Whatis.com has a holiday themed tech quiz, Thanksgiving: Do you speak Geek?. Bit stuffing, anyone?" And reader Punboy writes with some hope of building a better turkey: "Apparently the biotech guys are at it again, this time with our poultry! They're mapping the turkey genome in hopes of providing better breeding techniques, and remove the 'guesswork'." And while food is on your mind, here's a story about the challenges of feeding a hungry planet. -
CAM-Brain: Artificial Self-Teaching Brain
lostkluster writes "Genobyte is developing Robokoneko, a kitten (at first, computer simulated) to use CAM-Brain technology, a self-teaching artificial brain with a goal to have billions of artificial neurons by year 2001, but as a first step, it will have 32,000 evolved neural network modules. The CAM-Brain project is even to enter the Guinness book as "Most Powerfull Artificial Brain". More news and info at Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis homepage (head of the Brain Builder Group at ATR), and at whatis.com. "