Language will be transformed by wearable computers

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Smart clothes and accessories will let us share thoughts and sensations as well as words

Fabled mathematicians Edward O. Thorp and Claude Shannon, of MIT, walked into a Las Vegas casino in August 1961. They intended to try their luck at roulette, a game in which players bet on where a whirling ball will land after falling from an outer stationary track onto an inner spinning wheel. But they weren’t typical gamblers.

 

 

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CHAT – a translator that turns dolphin sounds into English

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Dolphins are believed to be one of the most intelligent animal species on the planet.

Scientists have developed a working translator that can take dolphin sounds and turn them into spoken English. The translator called CHAT (Cetacean Hearing and Telemeintry), takes the whistling sounds that dolphins make to communicate, and matches them to a known database of meanings.

 

 

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Starling helps bridge the communication gap for non-English speaking hospital patients

Transcendent Endeavors is a company that uses technology to break down communication barriers.

Bill Tan only knew 500 words of English when he arrived in America at 15 years old.  That was 500 more words than anyone else in his family knew. The experience inspired him to found Transcendent Endeavors, a company that uses technology to break down communication barriers.

 

 

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Average salary per programming language

PHP is a very accessible language, and it makes sense that casual / younger / lower paid programmers can easily contribute.

Ben Podgursky, a Software Engineer at Liveramp, a few weeks ago, described how he used Git commit metadata plus the Rapleaf API to build aggregate demographic profiles for popular GitHub organizations.

 

 

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Google’s Futurist Ray Kurzweil is working on a search system that can understand your emotions

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Futurist Ray Kurzweil has some ambitious plans for search at Google. Kurzweil joined Google at the end of last year as director of engineering and he became famous for creating the first text-to-speech software. He’s also been called “the ultimate thinking machine.”

 

 

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How the language we speak affects how healthy and rich we will be: Study

A new study suggests languages shape how we think about the future, and how we plan for it.

New research by Keith Chen of Yale Business School suggests that the language we speak can determine how healthy and rich we will be. The structure of languages affects our judgments and decisions about the future and this might have dramatic long-term consequences.

 

 

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Dolphins refer to each other by name: Study

Dolphins are the only other living beings on the planet to assign such specific monikers to known family members and associates.

One of the defining characteristics of human intelligence is language.  We like to think that the complexity of our social interactions is one of the things that makes humans unique, but we do know that other animals do communicate with each other. Dolphins are one of the other smartest species on Earth, and new research suggests they may have language skills that are a lot more complex than we thought, as they’ve demonstrated their ability to call each other by individual names.

 

 

 

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The origins of ‘big data’

Digital technology is changing both how words and ideas are created and proliferate, and how they are studied.

The fundamental building blocks of language and culture are words and phrases, much as genes and cells are to the biology of life.  Words are how we express ideas.  Tracing their origin, development, and spread is not just an academic pursuit but a window into a society’s intellectual evolution.

 

 

 

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