I also came here to complain about the poor article. Good coverage comes from the blog of the Planetary Society, which is working on its own solar sail and actually has people visiting JAXA.
These are the first direct images ever released. Before this, all evidence was indirect (oscillating plots of star brightness as the planet periodically eclipsed the host star, for instance).
I still like the old Solar System Exploration website better. It's easy to search for past, present, and future missions by name, target, or decade. Plus, it knows about Eris, unlike the new site.
NASA's PlanetQuest page has a 3D map of stars with planets. Clicking on the stars brings up dynamic plots of their orbiting planets. NASA will be launching the SIM PlanetQuest space telescope to find Earth-sized planets.
There's also a separate PlanetQuest distributed computing project that will allow people to search for planets from home using data from ground observatories.
Does anybody really think the notion of an intelligent computer is realistic any more?
The computer program PARRY might not have been intelligent, but it did fool people into thinking it was a paranoid human:
Colby subjected PARRY to blind tests with doctors questioning both the program and three human patients diagnosed as paranoid. Reviews of the transcripts by both psychiatrists and computer scientists showed that neither group did better than chance in distinguishing the computer from human patients. http://robot-club.com/lti/pub/aaai94.html
The researchers discovered the companion candidate in an optical image taken with ESO's 3.5-m New Technology Telescope at La Silla, Chile. They decided to take optical spectra and infrared images of the pair with ESO's 8.2-m Very Large Telescope to make sure that it is a true companion, instead of a foreground or background star that happens to be in the same line of sight. These follow up observations indeed confirmed that both objects are young, at the same distance, and much too cool to be stars. This suggests the two are physically associated.
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Here's a site with a video of Robofish in action.
I also came here to complain about the poor article. Good coverage comes from the blog of the Planetary Society, which is working on its own solar sail and actually has people visiting JAXA.
The supporting information [pdf] document is free and contains all of the scenarios used in the study.
This ars technica article says it's about 50 micrometers long.
...and another good one is this cartoon logarithmic map of the Universe.
Anderson and others have also incorporated findings from cognitive psychology into the computational architecture ACT-R.
These are the first direct images ever released. Before this, all evidence was indirect (oscillating plots of star brightness as the planet periodically eclipsed the host star, for instance).
Well, except for HD 189733b, 2M1207 b and GQ Lup b.
I still like the old Solar System Exploration website better. It's easy to search for past, present, and future missions by name, target, or decade. Plus, it knows about Eris, unlike the new site.
The java program to analyze wobble data is called Systemic and can be found at http://www.oklo.org/.
They're working on it.
Anyone know where the iBench test site can be found? The only link I found ( http://www.veritest.com/benchmarks/i-bench ) is dead.
There's also a separate PlanetQuest distributed computing project that will allow people to search for planets from home using data from ground observatories.
The computer program PARRY might not have been intelligent, but it did fool people into thinking it was a paranoid human:
Colby subjected PARRY to blind tests with doctors questioning both the program and three human patients diagnosed as paranoid. Reviews of the transcripts by both psychiatrists and computer scientists showed that neither group did better than chance in distinguishing the computer from human patients. http://robot-club.com/lti/pub/aaai94.htmlThe researchers discovered the companion candidate in an optical image taken with ESO's 3.5-m New Technology Telescope at La Silla, Chile. They decided to take optical spectra and infrared images of the pair with ESO's 8.2-m Very Large Telescope to make sure that it is a true companion, instead of a foreground or background star that happens to be in the same line of sight. These follow up observations indeed confirmed that both objects are young, at the same distance, and much too cool to be stars. This suggests the two are physically associated.
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