| Summary: | Presents information on the advent of "smart homes." Information that smart homes are equipped with gadgetry that can perform useful tasks like automatically turning the lights and heating on; Report that Michael Mozer, computer scientist at the University of Colorado, and his students have designed and installed a genuinely smart heating, lighting, ventilation and plumbing system; Use of neural networks to automate tasks in smart homes; Information that neural networks are computer programs that behave like nerve cells.
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