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23 February 2010
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The Origin of the Human Mind: Brain Imaging and Evolution

How to map a 1GB per mm2 intracranial mushdrive and other empirically based explanatory spelunking.

Don’t worry, there will be no quiz, because we can tell whether or not you’re paying attention and fMRI whether or not you get it. ;-)
Marty Sereno: “The strange sort of reality of the visual system, …

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22 February 2010
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Cultural Neuroscience

Explore.
Learn.

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3 November 2009
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Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics

On Thursday, November 12, 2009, sponsored by The Rock Center for Corporate Governance and Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics:
Once relegated to factories and fiction, robots are rapidly entering the mainstream. Advances in artificial intelligence translate into ever-broadening functionality and autonomy. Recent …

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4 June 2009
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Real Discrimination Against Digital People

And many other leading edge topics in this

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3 November 2008
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Stanford AIIDE Conference

AIIDE is the definitive point of interaction between entertainment software developers interested in AI and academic and industrial AI researchers.
Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI) (formerly the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing
the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying …

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22 August 2008
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Clarification on Commercial Hemp

In rapid fire context of live Science Friday show in SL, I made a couple of factual transposition errors that require correction here.
Three NOBEL LAUREATES including Milton Friedman, George A. Akerlof, and Vernon L. Smith, in addition to over 500 prominent economists, endorse Professor Jeffrey A. Miron’s, The Budgetary Implications …

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14 August 2008
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Teaching MATLAB in 7th Grade

At last week’s SFSL, during the Kiss My Math segment, I’d offered that some educational institutions and researchers are beginning to challenge the somewhat puritanical convention that rote memory is the best and more effective cognitive skill we can develop in our children.
In no way did I mean …

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15 July 2008
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2008 State of the Future

Looks like a pretty good deal for $49.95 plus shipping:

2008 State of the Future paperback with CD-ROM.
CD contains about 6,300 pages of research behind this print edition.
Includes Millennium Project’s 12 years of study and analysis.
Additional new updates and improvements.

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27 June 2008
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Gravity Probe B Update

For those who have been too busy to keep track, our colleagues at GP-B have indeed overcome innumerable obstacles over the course of “the longest running, continuous physics research program at both Stanford and NASA.”
As is so often the case in science, the political battles required to sustain sufficient resources …

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24 June 2008
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Jeff Hawkins: TED 2003

Despite some occasional detractors, the efficacy of Hawkins’ persistently catalytic socio-cognitive stigmergy is empirical amidst the present human population … and quintessentially metavalent.
February of this year marked the fifth anniversary of what may someday be considered one of the most memorable of TED Talks.
The very foundations of any …

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5 May 2008
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Clay Shirky On Cognitive Surplus

Even LOLCATS Beats Otiose 20th Century Media Model

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27 February 2008
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Radical Feminist Stigmergy

So it goes something like this … the men in society do their reproductive duty and immediately DIE. Yes, almost a perfect world right there, some may postulate! :-)

Next, the sated Divine Earth Micro Mother enjoys decades of unencumbered Life Creation, ruling her domain in meditative solitude, safe …

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24 January 2008
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To Real Steve Jobs: Tear Down This Wall

wow … for those of us lifelong learners in the post-academic world,
iTunesU is utterly amazing.
i am presently watching/listening to some vintage HCI Seminars (Terry Winograd, Stanford) from 06 and 07 in the background while doing my daily grunt work; and discovering the genius of Joe McKay and Greg Niemeyer.  awesome …

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