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Meet the Winners of Scientific American ‘s Great Consciousness Contest

In June Scientific American launched its Great Consciousness Contest intended to get readers involved in testing an idea put forward by leading neuroscientists Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi. Their article in SA 's June issue, " A Test for Consciousness ," postulates that slight variations in the placement of objects that occupy ordinary everyday images can completely befuddle the most sophisticated image-recognition capabilities of today's computers.

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Ada Lovelace and the Luddites.

Today is Ada Lovelace Day . If you are not a regular reader of my other blog , you may not know that I am a tremendous Luddite .

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Ada Lovelace and the Luddites.

Today is Ada Lovelace Day . If you are not a regular reader of my other blog , you may not know that I am a tremendous Luddite . I prefer hand-drawn histograms and flowcharts to anything I can make with a graphics program

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Ask.com CTO Lisa Kavanaugh On Teaching An Old Answer Site Brand-New Tricks

"We are no longer a general purpose search engine," Kavanaugh tells us. Instead, Ask.com uses proprietary, semantic search technology to deliver answers from it's own content banks, community, experts, and from all over the web. Today, Google captures nearly 65% of all U.S.

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Video: New Muppet highlights hunger

A new Muppet named Lily has found her way to special edition of "Sesame Street" called "Growing Hope Against Hunger." The character will talk to the show's young viewers about poverty, hunger and the insecurities they might have over their family's ability to have enough to eat. Erica Hill talks to Lily and Dr

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