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Computer and Brain
While working on a computer model intended to study how the brain deals with certain kinds of visual information, the researchers at Tomaso Poggio’s lab at MIT were amazed to see that the computer model which was not even developed for this purpose, was able to interpret as good as a human brain and at certain instances could do more rapidly than many existing computer systems specially designed for this purpose.
They were using the model computer to study a series of photographs. It was supposed to give a theoretical analysis of how the brain interprets these pictures and how the various pathways work in a brain.
Next 50 years will be witnessing almost 32 times more technological progress compared to the progress made during the whole 20th century, according to a futurological vision advanced by Ray Kurzweil, an eminent computer expert from America.It is all about the speed of technological advancements. Current pace of technological progress is extremely high and it will reach at the higher levels with tremendous speed soon.
One of the most important features that would be characterizing these technological advancements in next twenty years should be the development of computers which will be almost at par with the human brains and human intelligence. “One of such outcomes may be artificial intelligence matching human intellect the 2020s”, Ray Kurzweil says.
Dell launched an Internet-based’ storage area network array’ on Monday. Subsequent to the acquisition of ‘EqualLogic’, the computer manufacturer, it is the first introduction by Dell.
Dell’s ‘PS5000 Series iSCSI array’ is aiming at the medium businesses that are running their own servers in a specialized and virtualized environment within the ambit of a data center. This new rolled out array from Dell has been designed with an objective to provide enhanced storage in specified environments.
“Hewlett-Packard” has been successful in developing an innovative technological process that will use recycled plastic for manufacturing the cartridges for its ink-jet printers.
With this technology, the company made use of more than 5 million pounds of old plastic during the previous year. It was on a pilot basis that the company was able to produce more than 200 million such cartridges with this process. “The company now has plans to use twice as much recycled plastic in cartridges this year” said the company executive in a statement.
This technologically advanced recycling process of HP involves a combination of multiple sources and grades of old plastic. The source of plastic includes generally used water bottles and the old ink-jet cartridges. Counting after its first phase of test production of the ink cartridges, the company has been successful in recycling enough plastic to fill more than 200 tractor-trailers.
‘Hewlett Packard (HP)’ launched its first mobile thin client, a notebook this week. This exclusive notebook has been enabled to store data and access several wireless applications on a centralized server.
In addition to the ‘Compaq 6720t’, HP also rolled up the two desktop thin clients, the ‘Compaq t5730’ and’ t5735’. The 6720t and t5730 notebooks run’ Microsoft Windows XPe’ while the ‘t5735 notebook’ is based on the ‘Debian Linux Operating System’. This model is also capable of supporting other open source applications.
Logitech recently launched a new innovative” Logitech diNovo Mini palm-sized keyboard” with media remote and Click Pad. This mini keyboard has been specifically designed for the people who wish to connect their PC to their TV. The stylish ‘diNovo Mini keyboard’ facilitates its users to have an easy control on their PC entertainment in the way they want.
Along with the easy navigation, the ‘diNovo Mini keyboard’ also features backlighting and an innovative Click Pad that can be used by the users as a touch pad to point scroll and click. It can also be used as a directional pad to navigate between menus and select destination channels and other targets. Consumers have an added advantage with its combined ‘Bluetooth 2.0 wireless technology’ to facilitate them with its use from anywhere in their living rooms.
What is encryption?
Basically, it is the process of condensing and converting data into a format in order to ensure against data access of unauthorized individuals. This technology has always been popular with government operations. Nowadays, you can use data encryption software in order to ensure your computer’s security against hackers and viruses.
