Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain

The man behind the curtain: Overcoming skepticism about creative computers

The common misconception among non-specialists is that a computer program can only perform tasks which the programmer knows how to perform (albeit much faster). This leads to a belief that if an artificial system exhibits creative behavior, it only does so because it is leveraging the programmer’s creativity. We review past efforts to evaluate creative systems and identify the biases against th...

Paying Attention to the Details of Attention

Attention selects behaviorally relevant stimuli for greater neural representation. In this issue of Neuron, Luo and Maunsell (2015) show that attention acts, in part, by boosting the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of sensory neurons.

The importance of paying attention to the nutritional requirements of ornamental fish

      It is important to know the nutritional requirements of ornamental fish to achieve better growth and production performance. In recent years, nutritional information has been obtained about some aquarium species. Also, in some cases, the diet information of these fish can be extracted from the results obtained from farmed fish. Having the right dietary formula for the complementary needs ...

Sorting and Searching Behind the Curtain

We propose a framework where a user can outsource his data to a cloud server in an encrypted form and then request the server to perform computations on this data and sort the result. Sorting is achieved via a novel protocol where the server is assisted by a secure coprocessor that is required to have only minimal computational and memory resources. The server and the coprocessor are assumed to...

Paying Attention to Memory