by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2016 | Blog
The 1988 book “The Society of Mind” by MIT’s Marvin Minsky was my first introduction to the world of artificial intelligence – and judging from this piece in BoingBoing, I’m not alone. Minsky died Monday at age 88 (obit here). Even if AI...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Mathematically speaking, “one man, one vote” sounds about as exciting as “1 = 1.” Yet it turns out that something so simple can produce a Nobel Prize in economics, not to mention a slew of graduate school statistics homework. “Our class spent three weeks just on...
by David Brooks | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog
From Lori Wright, UNH News Service: Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have invented a low-cost method to monitor lakes for dangerous airborne toxins that have been linked to liver problems. Jim Haney, professor...
by David Brooks | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an obscure-sounding ruling from the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency that is a big deal for re-jiggering the entire electric grid and helping us use resources more efficiently, as I learned from Politico via New Hampshire...
by David Brooks | Jan 24, 2016 | Economy-Business, None
The following patents have been issued to individuals and companies in New Hampshire through Jan. 21. Micro Macro Assets, Salem has been assigned a patent (9,237,233) developed by Senraj Soundar, Salem for a “system and method for providing sales and marketing...
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