Wednesday 28 September 2011

AI News on the Web 28 Sept 2011

Searching for New Ideas
MIT Technology Review
Google's head of research explains why artificial intelligence is crucial to the search company's future. By Tom Simonite If anyone can preview the future of computing, it should be Alfred Spector, Google's director of research. ...


High hopes for AI in monitoring elderly
Stuff.co.nz
Installing artificial intelligence in houses will be trialled by a Massey University academic in a bid to support older people living alone. The trial comes after the lonely death of Wellington pensioner Michael Clarke. Mr Clarke, 88, was found dead in ...


Leader of Investment Shop Based on Artificial Intelligence at High Frequency ...
SBWire (press release)
Hyde Park Global Investments is a 100% robotic investment and trading firm based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The system is built primarily on Genetic Algorithms (GA) and other Evolutionary models to identify mispricings, arbitrage and patterns in ...


Researchers from MIT Work on Building Robotic Motion-Planning System
AZoRobotics
By Andy Choi The researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) of MIT are working developing algorithms for a new robotic motion-planning system. ...


How the Yahoo! homepage predicts your clicks
Register
In the summer of 2008, at an artificial intelligence confab deep in Silicon Valley, Yahoo! senior research scientist Deepak Agarwal revealed that the web giant was using automated algorithms to select news stories on its famous front page. ...


Blood Sugar Decrease And Boredom Up Car Accidents
ThirdAge
The Autonomos team is part of the Artificial Intelligence Group of the Free University Berlin. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) Lower blood sugar and boredom occur while drivers, like the nearly 80 percent of drivers on British roads, fail to take sufficient ...


New mathematical model to enable web searches for meaning
PhysOrg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory of meaning has the potential to revolutionise many artificial intelligence technologies and enable web searches that interpret the meaning of queries, according to its developer, a computer scientist at the University of ...


Singularity Summit in NYC to Explore Historic Watson Victory
Next Big Future
This Singularity Summit line-up this year features a mix of 25 speakers from numerous fields, with a central focus on robotics and artificial intelligence, in particular the victory of the IBM computer Watson in Jeopardy! this February. ...

       

Tuesday 20 September 2011

AI Happenings September 2011

Japanese firm develops 'artificial intelligence chat robots'
BCS
A Japanese company has invented the world's first artificial intelligence "chatbots" designed to converse with English language students. Education company SpeakGlobal revealed its 'chat robots' use high-speed speech recognition technology which ...


Autoficial intelligence (2)
The Economist (blog)
AutoNOMOS, part of the Artificial Intelligence Group of Berlin's Free University, has been working on autonomous cars since 2006. MadeinGermany is its most advanced vehicle yet. Watching it navigate the ten kilometres from the Brandenburg Gate to west ...


Universal intelligence: One test to rule them all
New Scientist
The idea for a universal test has emerged from the study of artificial intelligence and a desire for better ways to measure it. Next year, the most famous test for gauging the smarts of machines will be widely celebrated on the 100th anniversary of the ...


Top honour for AI researcher
Massey News (press release)
Professor Hans Guesgen has been made a senior member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He is one of only nine members worldwide to be given the honour. Senior Member status was established to recognise members of the ...


Critics question Watson's new role in health care
Louisville Courier-Journal
IBM, via AP What it is: An artificial-intelligence computer system that can answer questions posed in natural language. Maker: IBM Corp. spent four years developing the computer and named it for the company founder, Thomas Watson. ...


Gwyn: The emerging age of joblessness
Toronto Star
What's certain is that this kind of advance in artificial intelligence, or of machines performing intellectual functions once exclusive to human beings, will continue and will reduce the need to use humans to do such work. Week by week, the headlines ...


Whenever you Need to say Important Things to Your Customers, do it Precisely
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The traditional, intent - based, Artificial Intelligence recognition engine helped to understand shoppers' questions and provide with instant answers. While InteliWISE software tools can be used in this role, the latest engagement tools - triggers- ...
  

Tuesday 6 September 2011

AI News on the Web 7 Sept 2011

Automated marking takes teachers out of the loop
New Scientist
But can we trust the artificial intelligence that powers them to make appropriate judgements? Two new real-world tests suggest that it can work surprisingly well. In one experiment, conducted at the University of Central Florida in Orlando between ...
   

One small leap for running robots
ABC Science Online
Harold Roberto Martinez Salazar and Juan Pablo Carbajal of the University of Zurich's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory report their mathematical analysis in a recent issue of Physics Review E. "The hot question is how we make robots that can run as ...


Tucson tech: UA team out to expose 'phishers'
Arizona Daily Star
A team led by current and former members of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the UA's Eller College of Management has developed a prototype system to automatically detect fake sites. When tested against other existing, commercial systems, ...


Strongsteam - an online AI API
iProgrammer
If you are working in the area of artificial intelligence, a new web API may be of interest. Strongsteam is currently a closed alpha that is under development with the aim of eventually providing the means to carry out tasks such as extracting text ...


Three MICE wins to boost VIC coffers by A$40m
micebtn (blog)
Melbourne, Australia has secured the rights to host three world-class business events - the inaugural World Prostate Cancer Congress in 2013; 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2017 and the 27th Congress of the ...


Andrew Lo joins CSAIL
MIT News
Economist hopes to merge the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence with research on financial markets and risk. MIT chemical engineers have designed particles that can detect microRNA inside living cells. Tiny particles that measure ...