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Posts Tagged ‘learning

Wound body clock keeps brain bright

Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 9 October 2008

Messing with your body clock may have bad effects on learning and retention. (I’m looking at you, Gella and Mikko.)

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com

The circadian rhythm that quietly pulses inside us all, guiding our daily cycle from sleep to wakefulness and back to sleep again, may be doing much more

hamsters whose circadian system was disabled by a [...]

Village school improves w/ help from Microsoft

Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Well, MS can’t be all bad, can it?

clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net

The laboratory is using Microsoft Vista, but Dunleavy promised the school that when he visits the village again next year, he would bring along a Microsoft Version 7

What was then a small school in a depressed village began to change

He gave us fund for school [...]

AI-run robot helicopter learns by watching person-run helicopter

Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 3 September 2008

They’re just using small, four-foot-long helicopters now. But I smell a rogue robot helicopter movie on the horizon.

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com

Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers.

The stunts are “by far the most difficult [...]