Other Key Sites

There is a great deal of research underway to around the world relating to the creation of machine intelligence. This page summarises a few of the more notable sites. There are many more.

All of these sites have been referenced during Project Turing to identify issues and determine the status quo. While the technical views of Thinking Solutions do not necessariliy agree with the approaches taken by these organisations, all provide useful capabilities.

As these sites are not controlled by Thinking Solutions as described by our legal notice and they are subject to change.

Brain Research and Development References

IBM - This major computer company continues its quest for better language tools. Examples of its translation ability are clear in 1954: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_translator.html More recently in the translation space, is has created a program called MASTOR: http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.uit.innovation.html. Generally, IBM is targeting human interactions with computers using language as is the focus of the Natural Language Processing area: http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.nlp.html

Numenta - This company is actively pursuing a type of computer memory system based on Jeff Hawkins' (the Palm Pilot inventor) brain theory. http://www.numenta.com/

DARPA - The American research arm of the US military has a long history in supporting language translation and machine intelligence applications. An example of the wide scope of the projects can be seen in this link, for one of the DARPA language exploitation systems: http://www.darpa.mil/i2o/programs/gale/gale.asp

MIT - Perhaps the most famous institute for robotics research, MIT has long been at the forefront of artificial intelligence research. The spoken language systems group is looking for people to communicate with machines in spoken language: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/sls-blue-noflash.shtml

Princeton University - Princeton provides a tool called WordNet which contains a different way of looking at a dictionary. The tool provides access to their dictionary and associated database of word senses. This link looks at the tool: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

Brain References (more biologically focused)

Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: http://www.brainmuseum.org/

And for a consolidated view of brain technologies, look at Ray Kurzweil's site http://www.kurzweilai.net/