Saturday, December 9, 2006

Webwatch

Hardware vs intelligence

http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm
Artificial intelligence is one branch of information technology that can never fail to fascinate. A detailed paper featured on this website is also based on the same theme, with its emphasis on the fact that technologies for artificial intelligence will become more accessible and affordable by 2020. It also delves deep into what this technology really is and how it complements the functions of the human brain.



Through the looking glass

http://www.longbets.org/predictions
There are plenty of people who love to make wild predictions about what science and technology will be able to do in the future. This website can easily be fit into same category. It contains a variety of such predictions with evidence to boot. So when you read that by 2040, 40 per cent of Americans who hit 65 will live to be a 100 years old, you will also discover why demographic data supports this claim.



Cellular

http://www.biochemweb.org/cell_cycle.shtml
Whether you are a student of biology or that of advanced biochemistry, this website will definitely help you out if you need both basic and advanced information on human cells. Apart from the definition and various parts of cells, this website also goes into the tiniest details of all the processes taking place inside them and that of cell division. You can also go through various researches that have taken place on cells as well.



Short circuit

http://www.interq.or.jp/japan/se-inoue/e_menu.htm
If you are an engineering student, this website will prove to be an absolute haven. Featured here are details of a variety of circuits related to electronics and how you can use certain software to make these circuits yourself. There is also a collection of data sheets which you can easily download and three-dimensional photographs.

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