New Efforts Toward Friendlier And Safer Computers
from the wouldn't-that-be-nice dept
Roland Piquepaille writes "Companies have been struggling to build safer and friendlier computers since the first ones. Today, we'll look at two separate efforts coming from the labs. Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories want your computer to help you to make better decisions. But how? It will know how you feel by monitoring your perspiration and heartbeat, reading your facial expressions and head motions or analyzing your voice tones. Meanwhile, MIT scientists have found a way to repair corrupted data while your system is still up, allowing your software to fix itself without a need for restart. This might avoid the famous answer "the system is down" that you receive when you want to get a service or a product in a store or on the phone. As Darwin Magazine asks, "What kind of excuse is that?" Please read my blog for excerpts from these three stories."
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