Boffins at the University of Reading have created a robot controlled by a biological “brain” consisting of rat neurons. They began by taking a culture of neurons specially separated from the rest of the fetal brain tissue. The neurons are placed across a platter of electrodes that simultaneously allow the brain to control parts of [...]
Archive for 14 August 2008
Rat cyborg
Posted: 14 August 2008 in UncategorizedTags: ai, artificial intelligence, bioethics, biological computers, cyborgs, neurons, rats, real sci-fi, robotics
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Opinion Mining
Posted: 14 August 2008 in UncategorizedTags: computational linguistics, data mining, machine learning, opinion mining, opinions, sentiment
Digging through customer review information appears to be a hot topic these days. There are a multitude of tasks that fall under the umbrella opinion mining, a few of which are: Feature identification – identifying features belonging to products in unstructured data Opinion word identification – identifying which words actually indicate a statement of opinion [...]


