X-Ray Security Scans Go Interactive
Airport security staff can spend their entire day staring at two-dimensional, static X-ray scans. Soon, however, they may be able to interact with these images, rotating a scanned object on the screen and even analysing its chemical composition. It can be difficult to identify objects from the 2D images generated by X-ray scanners, says Paul…
Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2020
Reverse-engineering the human brain so we can simulate it using computers may be only a decade away, says Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of the best-selling book The Singularity is Near. It would be the first step toward creating machines that are more powerful than the human brain. These supercomputers could be networked…