Computers and Artificial Intelligence

"For information to become knowledge, it must incorporate the relationships between ideas. And for knowledge to be useful, the links describing how concepts interact must be easily accessed, updated, and manipulated. Human intelligence is remarkable in its ability to perform all these tasks. Ironically, it is remarkably weak at reliably storing the information on which knowledge is based. The natural strengths of today's computers are roughly the opposite. They have, therefore, become powerful allies of the human intellect because of their ability to reliably store and rapidly retrieve vast quantities of information. Conversely, they have been slow to master true knowledge."

Raymond Kurzweil, "When Will HAL Understand What We Are Saying?", HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality, The MIT Press, 1997

My Newest Hot Rod Computer.



Dual 2.4 GHz. Xeon processors on a SuperMicro X5DAE motherboard with 1GB of PC 266 DDR Registered RAM. Three 18 GB Seagate 15,000 RPM Ultra 320 SCSI drives striped in a RAID 0 array connect to an Adaptec Ultra 320 RAID card connected to the motherboard via a 100 MHz PCI-X slot. I benchmarked the transfer rate at 130 MB sec!! The two processors and the Video Processor on the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Video Card are watercooled by the Koolance PC2-901 Full Server Tower.



Fully assembled and powered up for the first time.



Looking Through the Side Window.



Closeup of the Radiator.



Hoses fitted and hooked up to the Heat Exchangers. Now I have to take the Motherboard out and fill the Fluid Reservoir for the Leak Test.



Here are the 3 15,000 RPM Ultra 320 SCSI Cheetahs in their Aluminum Heatsinks before being mounted in the case. Each heatsink has 2 fans and a drive temperature display.

Home Network Server/Domain Controller.



The Server has SuperMicro P3TDDE motherboard with 2 1.4 GHz Pentium III processors and 1 GB memory mounted in a Lian Li Aluminum case running Windows 2000 Server.