Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Scientist develops programme to understand alien languages via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 10/17/08 John Elliott of Leeds Metropolitan University has developed a program to compare the syntax of an alien language to 60 different languages in the world. If aliens are much smarter than us, there would a lot of words packed into phrases (a measure of ability to process multiple ideas), he says, and the program should also be able to break a language up into crucial words such as nouns and verbs, even though their meaning is unknown. (Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/10/15/scialien115.xml) Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
