AI News on the Web 26th July 2011

Caltech researchers make strides in creating artificial intelligence
Pasadena Star-News
PASADENA - Researchers at Caltech have taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence, not in a robot or silicon chip, but in a test-tube, college officials announced Wednesday. The researchers are the first to have made an artificial ...

FOSE 2011: IBM's Artificial Intelligence Coming to Healthcare
govWin (blog)
The company's previous artificial intelligence experiment, known as Deep Blue, had defeated world champion Gary Kasparov in a series of chess matches in 1997. Computers, in the past, hadn't been able to understand language the way humans use it. ...

Building robots that learn
CNN (blog)
The problem with the conventional approach to robotics is that it requires explicit programming for robots to carry out specific tasks, leading to a lack of autonomous, general purpose artificial intelligence, or AI. Working in collaboration with ...

UA Researchers Develop Prototype to Detect Fake Websites
UA News (press release)
That is what is driving the work of UA Artificial Intelligence Lab members who, along with a UA alumnus, have earned a top honor from MIS Quarterly for their research. As a UA doctoral candidate, Ahmed Abbasi served as a research associate for the UA ...

Next Generation Assessment: Workshop in September to Showcase Capabilities of ...
Benzinga
Today Pearson announced open registration for an event aimed at helping participants better understand and put automated scoring technology and artificial intelligence to work in measuring student achievement. Advance registration is required to ...