Taken care of and so you think: computers that read the mind

A group of investigators of the University of Carnegie Mellon is teaching to a computer to read the human mind by means of the interpretation of the scanned images of their brains in which they appear the representations of the words. The equipment of Pittsburgh thinks that this work can take to one better understanding of how and where the brain stores the information. On the other hand, they say that it would serve to improve the treatments of disorders of the language and other incapacities. “The question that we are trying to solve here is one that has become the humanity from always: how organizes the brain the knowledge? ”, Tom Mitchell said, of the equipment of the university. How it works? The team of scientists uses images obtained by magnetic resonance, and calibrate the computer with the aid of nine voluntary students who think about 58 different words, while the scanner shows in images its cerebral activity. Of these images the average images take control of each word and later the test begins. The computer must predict what the mind is saying through these words and the same with phrases is also made. Until now, the results of this experimiento have been satisfactory.

Microsoft wants that we stop using telephone numbers

The present president of Microsoft, Bill Gates, declared his intention to eliminate the necessity to use telephone numbers. How we will contact with another person? According to Gates, with contacts of Live Messenger.At the beginning of Gates May it gave to char it in Japan in which it said: “we have the number of moving body, the one of the fixed one, the direction of email, your user of instantaneous mail, and all of them are very different things, and the problems exceed how much of that information joint parties with people well it is not defined”.Gates continued: “If we can unify all those types of communication, we will be able to simplify them of remarkable form. We can forget to us the telephone numbers, and with this I mean that if you want to contact with somebody, basing us on whom you are and where she is that person, it is possible to be decided if to take care of the call or to respond with a message, so that great improvements in this field can be done”.That intention of Microsoft to eliminate the telephone numbers or has better explanation, because what tries it is to make use of the contacts of Windows Live Messenger, and is what in ZDNet they have called “Echoes” of your personality or your information of contact, although clearly, it seems that only they will be available for users of the Windows Mobile platform.