Slashdot Mirror
Intel To Help Stephen Hawking Communicate Faster
hypnosec writes "Stephen Hawking's ability to communicate has been deteriorating over the years and as it stands, he is only able to communicate at the rate of 1 word per minute. Intel CTO Justin Rattner has revealed that they are working on an interface that will boost the scientist's speech to up to 10 words per minute. Beyond twitching his cheek, Hawking is also capable of other voluntary facial expressions which can be tapped to achieve faster communications with the help of a better character interface and a better word predictor."
the most interesting tech intel puts out these days
aaaaaaa
They're going to have to enhance the aurocorrect dictionary or it will make complete nonsense of Prof. Hawking's very technical speech.
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
Is this too complex for us as a species? What happened to the "we choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard" spirit?
He'll be able to do even more awful TV adverts for crappy insurance companies!
That's all well and good, but what will happen when Hawking dictates a formula that involves division?
Come on IBM, why don't you hook him up to the neural interface and the supercomputer you built to run the platform????
Oh right...sorry...we all need to keep quiet that your neural research is coming from an unlawful human experiementation program.
Dicks.
It's pity that person that have so many interesting things to say can't communicate normally with other peoples.
There are a lot of people that speak a lot and doesn't have anything interesting to say.
Would that brain to computer tech be useful in Stephen Hawking case? If they can use it to move a robotic arm why not word selection software?
Those just might actually do a good job as he should be generating rather detailed patterns.
Finally, they are embracing overclocking.
you give people too much credit. HE's a train wreck and people like seeing the truly gifted among us cut down.
as long as it isn't based on windows.
Are they loading the urban dictionary?
After meeting with Hawking, Rattner said he wondered whether his company’s processor technology could restore the scientist’s ability to communicate at five words per minute, or even increase that rate to 10.
A business person would probably have left and said, "boring conversation anyway"
D6 63 0D 70 89 81 BB 8E 7B 7C 5F 5D 54 EA AB 73
A quick Youtube search turns up this example of eye-tracking tech for character input. Yeah, it doesn't look to be much faster than Intel's proposed 10 words per minute but that clip is 5 years old and I'm sure it could be improved upon in a number of ways (instead of having to 'hover' over a key for couple seconds for it to confirm, maybe a twitch could be used instead).
Only the other day we saw a demonstration of eye tracking being used with the Windows 8 interface. Something like that would allow him to browse the web, email, take notes, etc.
Intel is not evil after all!
Now I will buy all their shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiGRt9jaxdI
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
It is not enough to have the ability to change the world. It is a rare combination of chance and circumstance, far more than any particular genius. Archimedes could not have formulated the questions that led to quantum electrodynamics. Nor is it fair to select a particular point of inflection out of a continuum of progress -- which discovery since the invention of the transistor is responsible for the processor in your computer?
You judge beyond your ken, and far above your station. I hope that you are ashamed of your comment, but console myself that it will likely receive all the attention that it deserves.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
Wiki
Images
The G
Please tell me you are joking. The reason why I advocate more people buy AMD is because frankly X86 has gotten so incredibly powerful on BOTH sides of the aisle that I think its more important to have competition than to win some benchmark and the difference is like going from insaneo speed to ludicrous speed.
I mean look at some of the chips both have been putting out, even 7 years ago you would have had to spend just insane amounts of money to get anywhere near this performance and now you can get these sub 20w CPUs with multiple cores and GPUs that do full 1080p? Honestly people really need to take a moment to just stop and appreciate how fucking GOOD we have it right now. Hell even the Atom chip when paired with ION made for a pretty decent HTPC that used less power than a first gen P4 doing nothing, now Intel puts out these chips that just get totally incredible amounts of IPC and at an average of only 55w? That is just crazy, hell my Pentium D used more than that just sitting on the fricking desktop doing nothing.
So I would say if anything the slowdown in PC sales and the reason i recommend AMD is because Intel upped the game so damned high that even a low end chip is like a top fuel funny car and just blows through any job your average user can come up with without breaking a sweat. If Intel wouldn't have kept raising the bar with the tick tock cycle I wouldn't be able to buy 6 core CPUs for just $100 or get my customers damned nice laptops for less than $500 delivered.
The amount of power we get today just blows my mind and if you would have told me a decade ago I'd be typing on a website while listening to music, burning a DVD and doing a transcode and NOTHING would lag? Yeah I'd tell you to go back to your Star trek fanfic but here we are, where even the lowest laptop can do 1080P and multitask like crazy and our desktops are just monsters. I predict in 3 years, maybe less, we'll see ARM peter out as they aren't able to scale the IPC while Intel will just scale down a Core2 to where it uses like 2w max and runs rings around the ARM, it'll be like having a supercomputer in your pocket, just incredible.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Hawking was the first to make a cosmological model by unifying general relativety and quantum mechanics. That's not easy, Einstein couldn't do it.
If nothing else, designing better communication interfaces to people like Stephen Hawking, will give better communication interfaces to everyone else who is in a position like Stephen Hawking. Neural interfaces where you just think the word and it appears on screen or sounds as speech. You might be trapped in your body, but there is no reason why you can't still communicate with the outside world, and no reason why they can't communicate with you.
Yes, the x86 tech has improved a lot.
However, the intel presentation at CES was empty. They presented a facelift of the same chip with stuff limited, and made false claims on it.
The competition (x86 or not) is not sleeping like that. intel needs to wake up if they want to survive.
aaaaaaa
M-theory?
Give me a break. It fails tests of Godel - and is based on a mathematical supposition of unobservable, multiple dimensions. It's like adding new axes to a graph - to fit non-conforming data into a pre-determined hypothesis.
It is a sophomoric proposition illuminated by calculative sophistication. Wittgenstein, were he alive, would have ripped Hawking seven new assholes, and been mathematically correct in his exposition.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
No disrespect to Stephen Hawking. His a brilliant man, who has overcome lot in his life-time against the odds.
But for some reason this movie quote comes to mind... :)
Donkey: Hi, Princess!
Princess Fiona: It talks!
Shrek: Yeah, it's getting him to shut up that's the trick!
And I shall be epigrammatic: "M-Theory is a tautology".
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
one word a min is not fast enough for an epic rap battle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn7-fVtT16k
Sorry not sure how to do a hyper link
I'm glad they can increase Hawking's speech rate by an order of magnitude, but that's a lot of work to accommodate people like Hawking: those with ALS that live more than 10 years. I think only 1% of ALS patients live past 10 years. Hawking has lived 50+ years with ALS, which makes him an incredibly rare case.
just saying.
Reminds me of the cancer cure for (much of) cancer. This one was even on The news
I agree with your views. A cheap, low wattage AMD chip is plenty fast and makes modern OS's go fast. Problem is Intel's stuff is at LEAST a little better, cheaper and lower wattage. If you can save money with an AMD chip, invest in an SSD as well. As far as I'm concerned that is going to make a desktop snappy almost regardless of (modern) processor. If you haven't used one before you don't know how slowly you've been using your system even if you have a top end Intel.
If you check Stephen Hawking's website:
"... I have also experimented with Brain Controlled Interfaces to communicate with my computer however as yet these don't work as consistently as my cheek operated switch. ... "
Somewhat ironic you choose to post a provocative style message as AC. Did you choose to do so because it was easy, and not hard? ;-)
Re: "could we please start understanding how the human body works" - I think you'll find that there are many research institutions and universities carrying out a lot of biological research. Why don't answers appear quickly? Because it's hard. A good friend has just finished his PhD studying Huntingdon's disease, he has made some valuable but incremental progress to solving genetic problems in this area. This stuff is really tough to solve...
Exactly, you got me interested in the E series chips, before I was 100% intel, because that was what we used at the office and I just grabbed the old stuff. Now I have an E-450, two E-350s, and two C-60's. (People tend to hate on the C60, but it works well within its limits.) Only problem is that I tend to buy used off eBay and the AMD section is often limited.
Yes, the x86 tech has improved a lot. However, the intel presentation at CES was empty. They presented a facelift of the same chip with stuff limited, and made false claims on it. The competition (x86 or not) is not sleeping like that. intel needs to wake up if they want to survive.
Have you been smoking what Charlie Demerjian is selling? Intel has a huge lead over their closest competitor, AMD. Since AMD resigned its-self to the value market a few years ago they have not even attempted to take a shot at leading. Intel has no immediate threats, unfortunately.
"I... have... to... go... to... the... bbbbbathro...." "ahhh... nevermind"
all of the commonly used and useful quantum models also do exactly those things
all systems of mathematics are
Which is why they are false.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
C'mon!
He's GREAT on that Futurama show! Almost as funny as Nixon's head, or that degenerate robot... Al Gore.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
"false" is not the issue, that is from the realm of philosophy and of no import. a scientific model is USEFUL for predicting behaviour of natural phenomenon or it is NOT USEFUL. there are several quantum mechanical models that are very useful. you are presently using devices engineered with useful quantum mechanical models. scientific experiment has shown other quantum mechanical models to be useful.
Interestingly, there have been recent astronomic observations in the realm of the intersection of quantum mechanics and GR, and more to come. We will soon see if Hawkings model is USEFUL or not
That's competition. One company made a better processor and the other lost the race. It's how the world works. Nothing is "FAIR"..
Stop whining...
The reason I don't advocate Intel, well besides the douchebag compiler rigging and bribery they should have gotten an anti-trust bust for, is that they cripple their chips and moreover they cripple them WRONG. I mean cutting out POWERSAVING features on the lower end chips? Really? You have cache and HT and VM support you can cut, that isn't enough but you gotta make them laptop chips into pigs when you have so many other ways to upsell?
And I have to completely disagree that Intel chips are cheaper and lower wattage, not only because they tend to cripple powersaving on their lower end chips but also because on the low end you can get insane amounts of power from AMD cheap. I mean I can get an Athlon Triple kit for $195 just add HDD and a fricking Phenom II Hexacore for just $210 just add HDD and burner. When you figure in the cost to finish those kits up I can have a completed product for less than an Intel i3 CPU, board and RAM, which would leave me with half the parts left to buy!
And finally I again have to disagree when it comes to SSDs because until they fix the hot/crazy scale when it comes to SSDs I simply can't recommend them except for certain niches like a mobile device that isn't gonna have mission critical data on it, and that article may be a couple years old but if anything I've found that since going up to triple cells the problem has gotten worse. I have several gamer customers that buy top o' the line and they are up to double digits when it comes to SSDs because of all the failures, and we ain't talking OCZ, we are talking Intel, Kingston, and Samsung. In a way it reminds me of the first days of HDDs and how insanely high those early drive failure rates were and of course once it fails you can't wipe the drive so many of my customers are leery of even claiming on their warranty because they have no idea what kind of third world center those drives will be sent to and if they will be risking ID theft thanks to all the data on the now dead SSD.
The funny part is its NOT the cells that are failing as you'd think, nope its the ARM controllers they have on the drives themselves. When that thing fails, which it ALWAYS does with no warning at all, you can't even get your data off because it won't even show up in BIOS. Now once they get THAT fixed? Behind you 100% although I have to wonder how much gain myself and most of my users will see since most just use sleep mode anyway and with Win 7 intelligent caching most of their programs are already loaded into RAM but in its current state frankly SSDs are even worse than Seagate drives over 600Gb when it comes to the number just shitting themselves.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I don't know why anybody would hate on the C60, its frankly a kick ass netbook or mini-PC chip and when I couldn't find an E350 for my dad's GF year before last I found him an Acer with a C60 to give her and she just loves the hell out of the thing, like with my E350 EEE she has no intention of getting rid of it and why should she? Unlike the crippled Atom systems the C and E series support a ton of RAM (she has 4GB on hers, I went ahead and slapped 8GB in my E350) and have full VM support as well as does 1080P over HDMI. She loves hers because the C series gets even better battery life than mine, after 2 years she still gets nearly 6 hours whereas after 3 years mine still gets a solid 4. But I'm glad to see you enjoy the Bobcats, I can't count the number of office PCs and HTPCs I've built with Bobcats and they are just great, low power, full 1080P, hell I play L4D and the Portal and Torchlight series on my netbook when stuck at the doctor's office and its a fricking blast.
BTW Crosshair one place to keep an eye out besides Craigslist and eBay is to check out Cowboom which will have some insanely cheap AMD units from time to time. If you have never heard of them its the site Best Buy uses to sell all their returned and refurbed as well as trade in units and as you can see while they have a ton of dirt cheap Atoms they do get some AMD netbooks as well as the occasional full size. I picked up an Atom dual for $85 there that was like new, boy that was an easy unit to turn, as well as a C50 Gateway that was only $129 and also easy to flip. Its one of those sites you really just have to check daily as they constantly get new stuff and you never know what is gonna be there. The only AMDs they have now is a couple of single cores at $165 but last week they had a really nice E450 for just $130, you just gotta keep an eye out.
Oh and also keep an eye out on Amazon because as you can see here you can get some insanely cheap AMD E series boards there, I mean $70 for the Gigabyte with 4 SATA, or $95 for the Asrock with a PCI-E slot? way too cheap. If you are building an office PC I recommend the cheaper Gigabyte but for an HTPC you can't go wrong with the Asrock as hybrid crossfire works pretty damned good on those E series and having dedicated VRAM makes for a sweet HTPC, but as I'm sure you know both do 1080P just fine as long as you don't cheap out and buy 1066 RAM, I found running 1333 does make a difference on those APUs.
And if you do have an HTPC you ought to email me and I'll send you the links to the free programs I use, i tripped over some killer freeware that loads all the Metadata from IMDB into your media library so when you fire up WMC it has all the box art and synopsis filled in, hell of a lot nicer than trying to just find things alphabetically and since it loads all the metadata you can sort by genre, year, title, its a great way to enjoy your movies and TV shows.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Galactic distribution discoveries are demolishing the usefulness of these hypothesis, like the fossil record smashing Old Testament "history".
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."