de Garis's Hardware Colleague Dr. Michael Korkin
Goes on World Tour to Have 4 CBMs Meet Their Specs
Dr. Michael Korkin, my hardware colleague, and designer and builder of the 4 CAM-Brain Machines (CBMs) on the planet went on a "world tour" to get all 4 of them fully running, meeting the specifications they were designed for.
In early Oct 2000, he was in Belgium Europe, servicing the CBM at Lernhout and Hauspie (L&H), the world's number one speech processing company, as well as Starlab's CBM. Both machines are now running according to specs. He was then a week in Japan doing the same to ATR's CBM (in Kyoto). When he returned he got his own CBM (in Boulder Colorado) running properly as well.
Thus there are now 4 CBMs running in the world. These machines have been designed to be remotely accessible, so at least the Starlab CBM will be open to researchers who would like to play with it, to do a Masters or PhD thesis based on using this machine. If you are interested in such a thing, please email me at degaris@starlab.net
Now that the CBMs are built and running as desired, the next step in the whole brain building saga can begin, and that is "pushing up evolvabilities". The quality of the evolution, although not bad (see future results), is still not at high enough a level for fine level control of robot motors, so we will need to experiment on the fitness definitions to improve the quality. For this work, Starlab and Genobyte have brain builder teams now ready to go.
To pay for all this work, 4 research grants eminating from Starlab have already been submitted. The first has already come through ($1million). The other 3 (Oct 2000) are still being processed. Stay tuned.