“Ant Ballet is a six-year research project into control systems, paranoia and dancing insects. The project is separated into four phases”

Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of the nanopoem

“…nanopoems are poems written inside the microchip to surprise an engineer while examining the integrated circuit under a microscope…” — SS Prasad in Rampike 20.2

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“Can computers learn to read? We think so. Read the Web is a research project that attempts to create a computer system that learns over time to read the web. Since January 2010, our computer system called NELL (Never-Ending Language Learner) has been running continuously, attempting to perform two tasks each day:

First, it attempts to ‘read,’ or extract facts from text found in hundreds of millions of web pages (e.g., playsInstrument(George_Harrison, guitar)).
Second, it attempts to improve its reading competence, so that tomorrow it can extract more facts from the web, more accurately.”