Science fiction has given us more than enough examples of why creating artificial intelligence may be a bad idea. In fairness, it’s also given us several examples of this type of technology helping us. More often than not, however, we tend to remember the tales about machines taking over the world and eradicating the human… Continue reading Are We Creating Our Own Demise? AI Advances May Make Science Fiction Reality
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Germany – Masters Of Engineering
What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us? Here in the UK, we like to think we have invented everything, and that any good idea must have had a Brit involved in it at some point. Perhaps we’re not quite so blinkered in this respect as our American cousins, who have been accused of rewriting… Continue reading Germany – Masters Of Engineering
Choosing Data for Preserving Science
The first part of the series on preservation of scientific data discussed the challenges to generate adequate scientific data from sample. The next step is data management. In its simplest form, the data must be documented, digitized and stored in back ups or storage systems like the hard drives. An one time bout of data… Continue reading Choosing Data for Preserving Science
Now Read the Popular Science+ on your iPads
The Popular Science+ magazine is a science and tech oriented magazine published by Bonnier Corporation. Monthly readership of the publication is in excess of 6.7 million and the company is hoping to leverage on this by releasing an electronic version of the magazine for the iPad. The design of the electronic version has been uniquely… Continue reading Now Read the Popular Science+ on your iPads
Dealing With the Raw Science Data- to Preserve or Not?
The data handling and storage techniques of the Climatic Research Unit in UK revealed many flaws in preserving data. The drawbacks of science data storage revealed from the study were shocking to the scientific groups. The computer codes were not maintained properly and the data was spread over innumerable files in difficult formats. Old punch… Continue reading Dealing With the Raw Science Data- to Preserve or Not?