When Search Engines are problem!!
Posted on | June 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
when you have a website, your intension pretty much is to let people know about it. Doesnt it? Anyway, if you want it otherwise, may be you are a shy person, you dont want to disclose about your work, or some case you dont want search engines to found you, then you can a put simple one-line code into you web pages.
<html>
<head>
<meta name=”ROBOTS” content=”NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW”>
</head>
<body>
/* some code */
</body>
</html>
Put this line this way inside your <head> </head> tags, then this will make sure that search engine would not index you and thus your webpage wont be revealed to people.
Everyday Product Intelligence and Smarter Sensors
Posted on | June 11, 2011 | 4 Comments
Digitalization of our everyday products ranging from a cell phone to the interface of a washing machine is bringing a new era where these products will become smarter through the help of sensors with onboard intelligence. Those products will be smarter and will be able to “think” like they never used to before. Not only will those machines will be able to gather date and create a log, but also will be able to analyze the data and reach a decision.
Many approaches have been taken into account to make machines smarter, and still there are loads of researches going on. Despite the limitation in the fabrication process of sensors, new approaches are being tested for developing smarter sensors.
But apparently new micro-machined smart sensors are the future of intelligent sensors where these MEMS sensors includes a 32-bit processor and databus connectivity and a gyroscope, pressure sensor, touch sensor and magnetometer are added in a single sensor package. Definitely these are the sensors which will bring intelligence in our daily products.
These sensors, for their greater efficiency and data processing speed, can be embedded into any handy electronic product and turning them into intelligent devices. Previously sensors with the help of microcontrollers and appropriate software used to work as the intelligence in the devices. But now it has been proposed that the sensor itself will be able to take decisions so that sensor will not need any microcontroller to take the decisions.
These sensors will be so smart that they can tell whether users movement is altimetry, directional heading, or just the pace that one is walking; all of them are measurable and since it’s very easy to connect a device with the internet so intelligence of the device will be able to reach a conclusion not just about information gleaned from a single sensor – but about the world around them.
The proliferation of applications for smart phone is growing so fast that many engineers are hard-pressed to cope up with them, now the question is, Will developers and designers will be able to take out the best out of these sensors by showing maximum usages and creativity? If the justifiably used it can presumed , that soon the world will see some ideas are implemented in their everyday products which will even overwhelm the ideas from science fiction.
Artificial Emotion
Posted on | June 8, 2011 | No Comments
What do we picture when we think of the robots of the future? We see humanoid machines that exceed the ability of humans. We also like to imagine them as emotional — understanding our moods and maybe laughing along with us. That is the vision of sci-fi novels and great movies such as “AI-Artificial Intelligence” and “ I robot.”
We imagine that such a development will take place in the distant future. But today’s scientists differ — not only have they been working on artificial intelligence, but touching the delicate ground of conceptions of artificial emotion as well.
The University of Bath held a December 2003 conference to discuss the potential for artificial emotion. Its principal task was to set goals and objectives for this brand new area of artificial intellifence and set in place an agenda for the future. The first question we have to ask is why we need to give machines emotion. According to the scientists, ee will need autonomous robots or systems which will understand partially or fully about the world of human emotions. Suppose a system is developed to stand in for a doctor. It will function best if it can at least somewhat understand its patients psychology and moods. With artificial emotion, the applications of intelligent machines would multiply not only into medicine but also tutoring, managing the environment, and even entertainment.
The rough timescale the conference established sees the first years of work as focused on building tools, vocabulary, perspectives, and constrains for this new sector. At the same time, the plan is for scientists to try to develop a variety of models to link this sector to the disciplines of psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology. They will attempt to come up with several life science models and artificial life models as well, obviously with the improved touch of human computer interaction.
In the subsequent five years, they will try to come up with different control system for industrial applications with a thorough understanding of the origins and utility of primary emotions.
With all this going on, I don’t think we will have to wait beyond the end of this century to see emotional machines. Maybe the sci-fi movies have not been quite so fanciful and we will actually see machines interacting as a part of our emotional human work. We hope, however, not to see the associated problems the movies have shown us arise from endowing machines with feelings.