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• For a long time, i dreamt of creating virtual humans - specifically, a realtime, physical simulation of a human that could interact with its virtual environment. ...   I gathered lots of notes, wrote some code and attended the virtual humans conference twice. ...
• I could describe in great detail why simulated humans haven't happened yet, but that would be too negative, so instead i'll just leave you with my notes, which for the most part haven't been updated since the late 90s. ...
• Non-realtime humans are already present in high-end movies and pop culture. ...
• why virtual humans? .
• Friction - simulation of static and dynamic frictional forces - Nobody has yet attempted this, not even for non-realtime humans! Apparently, one way to approximate friction involves sticking objects together - e. ...
• involving multiple virtual humans, simulated at multiple, separate locations, some of which may be autonomous. ...

• Code of Conduct for Research Involving Humans.
• The final report of the Tri-Council Working Group on ethical conduct for research involving humans has been submitted to the three Councils. ...
• The Councils have since issued the " Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. ...

• Did humans descend from "aquatic apes"?.
• A few years ago, Elaine Morgan published a book called The Aquatic Ape that publicized a theory that humans, at some time in their evolution, had partially adapted to a marine environment. ...
• spent your tax dollars studying, say, the idea that humans are descended from extraterrestrial reptiles? (Some people actually believe that one. ...
• Apes and humans, on the other hand, tend to float vertically with their nostrils submerged. Humans (and at least some apes) can learn to swim, but it doesn't come naturally. ...
• The real reason these species, including humans, lost their hair was to dissipate heat faster. ...
• Of course sedentary western humans tend to be fat, but they are not a fair representation of humans. ... Is the distribution of subcutaneous fat in humans somehow exceptional? Not at all. ... In humans, the fat layer is thinner and, on parts of the body, non-existent. ...
• On those rare occasions when brachiators come down to the ground, they usually walk on two legs, like humans. There is a growing school of thought that the last common ancestor of humans and chimps was a brachiator and not a knuckle-walker as had been previously believed. ...
• It must have lived very close to the time when humans and chimpanzees diverged and fills in another important gap. ... The fossil gaps up to the last common ancestor of chimps and humans are now measured in hundreds of thousands of years rather than Hardy's tens of millions. ...
• In fact it is not an adaptation at all, but a birth defect, found in both humans and other apes. ...
• Morgan makes much of face-to-face mating in humans. ...
• Untrained dogs, for example, can hold their breath and survive underwater for three minutes, compared to only about one minute for untrained humans. ...

• Avian influenza (â œbird fluâ �) and the significance of its transmission to humans.
• All type A influenza viruses, including those that regularly cause seasonal epidemics of influenza in humans, are genetically labile and well adapted to elude host defenses. ... As a result of these uncorrected errors, the genetic composition of the viruses changes as they replicate in humans and animals, and the existing strain is replaced with a new antigenic variant. ...
• Conditions favourable for the emergence of antigenic shift have long been thought to involve humans living in close proximity to domestic poultry and pigs. ... Evidence is mounting that, for at least some of the 15 avian influenza virus subtypes circulating in bird populations, humans themselves can serve as the â œmixing vesselâ �.
• The first documented infection of humans with an avian influenza virus occurred in Hong Kong in 1997, when the H5N1 strain caused severe respiratory disease in 18 humans, of whom 6 died. The infection of humans coincided with an epidemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza, caused by the same strain, in Hong Kongâ ™s poultry population.
• Studies at the genetic level further determined that the virus had jumped directly from birds to humans. ...
• 5 million birds, reduced opportunities for further direct transmission to humans, and may have averted a pandemic.
• That event alarmed public health authorities, as it marked the first time that an avian influenza virus was transmitted directly to humans and caused severe illness with high mortality. ...
• Two other avian influenza viruses have recently caused illness in humans. An outbreak of highly pathogenic H7N7 avian influenza, which began in the Netherlands in February 2003, caused the death of one veterinarian two months later, and mild illness in 83 other humans. ...
• Its ability to cause severe disease in humans has now been documented on two occasions. In addition, laboratory studies have demonstrated that isolates from this virus have a high pathogenicity and can cause severe disease in humans. ...
• H5N1 variants demonstrated a capacity to directly infect humans in 1997, and have done so again in Viet Nam in January 2004. The spread of infection in birds increases the opportunities for direct infection of humans. If more humans become infected over time, the likelihood also increases that humans, if concurrently infected with human and avian influenza strains, could serve as the â œmixing vesselâ � for the emergence of a novel subtype with sufficient human genes to be easily transmitted from person to person. ...

• com Home GalleryWeb Resources ConsultantsJoin Group About Peter Pandora | TANU Bots | | Mark Laing| Eric Cosatto | Lucy | Bill |paige | Lauren - Divabot | Eve Amacom Books / BotSpot/ Diomatic Software / Welcome to Virtual Humans .
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• If you haven't already purchased Virtual Humans, please consider doing so. ...
• Building Virtual Humans .
• My book Virtual Humans is intended to introduce you to the possibilities inherent in virtual human design. ...
• This is a place to share Ideas and our v-humans group at Yahoo (on the left) is a great place to get started By freely sharing our ideas and even our code, we can jumpstart the development of sophisticated virtual humans. ... In fact, virtual humans will facilitate that advancement because, without virtual human help, we'll soon be faced with technology that is too complicated to use. ...
• The v-humans group in now over 150 people! We exchange ideas, philosophy and software etc. ... So when you apply to the group, please mention virtual humans and your interest so we know your not a porn spammer. ...
• The link is on the upper left menu, V-humans Blog. ...
• Virtual Humans maintains Five Stars at Amazon after 18 reviews! If you haven't baught it. ...
• Check out the article about Peter Plantec and Virtual Humans in Space at MSNBC. ...
• What's on the Horizon - KurzweilAI If you want to keep up with the latest in all sorts of cutting edge technologies including virtual humans, nanotechnology, quantum dots, quantum computing, bioengineering and much more. ...

• When Machines Outsmart Humans .
• Half a century after the first electric computer, we still have nothing that even resembles an intelligent machine, if by ‘intelligent’ we mean possessing the kind of general-purpose smartness that we humans pride ourselves of. ...
• After all, humans have achieved human-level intelligence, so it is evidently possible. ...
• The system will need to be taught in order to attain the abilities of adult humans. ...
• Within fourteen years after human-level artificial intelligence is reached, there could be machines that think more than a hundred times more rapidly than humans do. ... The interval during which the machines and humans are roughly matched will likely be brief. Shortly thereafter, humans will be unable to compete intellectually with artificial minds. ...
• In particular, scientific and technological research (as well as philosophical thinking) will be done more effectively when conducted by machines that are cleverer than humans. ...
• Some authors have speculated that this positive feedback loop will lead to a "singularity" - a point where technological progress becomes so rapid that genuine superintelligence, with abilities unfathomable to mere humans, is attained within a short time span (Vinge 5 ). ...

• The memetic origin of language: modern humans as musical primates.
• The memetic origin of language: modern humans as musical primates.
• Humans have unique adaptations for singing 4. ...
• The question on the origin of language then becomes the question on the origin of song in modern humans or early Homo sapiens. ...
• The emergence of language in a human community by interaction between humans and symbols is not specifically addressed here, but will be the issue of a forthcoming paper  82 .
• The full progress to symbolism in communication - spoken language as used by humans - requires that further encoding takes place: not only are symbols (words or signs) linked to mental images (linguistic semantics), but also word order, affixes, and other morphological modifications/operations/processes enable the communication of relationships between representations (linguistic syntax). ...
• All we need to explain is why humans are so good at this.
• We conclude that mental representation and semantics (linking of observable behaviour to a mental representation or conveying meaning to an observation) on the one hand and mental syntax (recognition of causal links) on the other hand are two abilities that were naturally selected for long before humans appeared and long before the rise of spoken language. ...
• The auditory cortex of monkeys is as able as that of humans to hear the auditory features which characterise phones  85 . ...
• First, the advantages offered by speech, like more successful hunting, would have benefited all individuals in a hunter-gathering band of early humans, even those with less well developed language capacities. ...
• "However, in the case of humans there can also be cultural selection, behavioural selection at the group level, where the patterns of behaviour adopted are not tied to individual genetic differences. ...
• Physical attractiveness may even be a more important reason for reproductive success than social rank in humans (see 3. ...
• However, just in case of humans - where this link between social status and reproductive success is needed most to supply natural selection as an explanation for language - it may not strictly be applied. ...
• Humans, living in fission-fusion societies with strong pair bonding and with prolonged periods of absence of the males, appear to be a special case. ...
• 5), and that it is uncertain that social status of humans is a guarantee for reproductive success (see 3. ... The example of Symons  87 , adopted by Pinker  67 on the reproductive success of tribal chiefs (often both gifted orators and highly polygynous) then is not really applicable to the humans which first developed language. ...

• Humans in Science.
• One question that humans in science, like humans everywhere, think about is the one as to why bad things happen to good people. ...
• I then thought that reading a blog with the title “Man in Science” might put me off, and that perhaps I’d like to blather about issues not related to my gender, and others might, too, so I suggested something longer than and including “Humans in Science", but that is how it ended up. ...
• Heck, we’re all humans, right?.
• Humans in Science .

• Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis in Humans and Animals.
• Use of Molecular Biological Markers in the Epidemiological Study of Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis Infections in Humans and Animals.
• Economic Consequences of Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis Infection in Humans and in the U. ...
• Enteritidis in Humans and Animals.

• Avian influenza A(H5N1) in humans and poultry in Viet Nam .
• Laboratory results received on Sunday have confirmed the presence of avian influenza virus strain A(H5N1) in samples taken from humans. ...
• WHO is providing support to Vietnamese health authorities in their investigation of the cases and in the prevention of further spread to humans.
• Genetic studies subsequently linked the outbreak in humans to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry. ... 5 million poultry in Hong Kong is thought to have averted a larger outbreak in humans.
• Other recent outbreaks of avian influenza in humans have caused limited disease. ... An outbreak of H7N7 avian influenza in the Netherlands caused the death of one veterinarian in April 2003, and mild illness in 83 humans. ...
• WHO regards every case of transmission of an avian influenza virus to humans as a cause for heightened vigilance and surveillance. ... The co-circulation of highly pathogenic animal viruses with human viruses could create opportunities for different species-specific viruses to exchange genetic material, giving rise to a new influenza virus to which humans would have little, if any, protective immunity.

• Humans are pink and run five times as fast as zombies, occasionally changing direction at random. ...
• Panicked humans are bright pink and run twice as fast as other humans. ...
• See also: Matt Cordes' modified version (with humans that fight back), Alan Gordon's 3D version, Hardcorepawn's nuke-dropping game variant and - best of all - Mario Lopez's Incredible Zombie Machine. ...

• Humans and Other Animals is a web site designed for all those interested in the human-animal relationship. ...

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