Artificial Intelligence News 15 August 2012

Anonymous Operation TrapWire Bay Area Indymedia This weekend, it was disclosed by WikiLeaks the details about a system known as "TrapWire" that uses facial recognition and other techniques including high-end artificial intelligence to track and monitor individuals using countless different closed ... See all stories on this topic » Bay Area Indymedia

Butler: 'Dark Pools' are a threat to our future San Jose Mercury News Author Scott Patterson explains it all in his book that chronicles the rise of computerized artificial intelligence and the computerized trading that has come to dominate the stock market. How dominant? Patterson writes, "At the end of World War II ... See all stories on this topic »

Professor Matthew E. Taylor Receives $400000 Grant to Research Artificial ... Lafayette College Campus News Matthew Taylor, assistant professor of computer science (l-r), Kumera Bekele '13, and Tong Pham '13 work on artificial intelligence research in Acopian Engineering Center. This prestigious and much-coveted award is given, as noted by NSF, in support of ... See all stories on this topic » Lafayette College Campus News

Research Fellow (Artificial Intelligence) The Conversation The Research Fellow (Artificial Intelligence) will conduct research into temporal and spatial Bayesian network modelling for improved fog forecasting. You will support a research project, funded by the Australian Research Council, and interact with the ... See all stories on this topic »

SmartAction Receives Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine's 2012 Speech ... Sacramento Bee Smart Call Agents are an artificial-intelligence based solution revolutionizing the customer service industry. It features natural language speech capabilities, which allow it to handle more complex calls than the most advanced IVRs on the market today. See all stories on this topic »

Errant Code? It's Not Just a Bug New York Times These companies use artificial intelligence programs that get a “sense” of your normal purchases: where you use the card, the range of the amounts involved, the sort of vendors you deal with. The programs can sometimes be too vigilant (freezing your ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Interactive 3D to come to HTML TG Daily Now, though, computer scientists from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research are working to describe computer scenes in spatial detail directly within websites' code. They've ... See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

Google Wants To Put Your Gmail Content Into Your Search Results, But Maybe ... Slate Search senior vice president Amit Singhal says it's part of an effort to make the company's bread-and-butter service "truly universal" and build artificial intelligence into the search engine. Google hopes security concerns will be addressed by a ... See all stories on this topic »

Global App Giant Makes Push for US Market With Personalized 3D Virtual ... Equities.com The Android-based virtual assistant, aptly named Everfriends, leverages award-winning Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and integration with apps, such as Google Maps, Wikipedia and television viewing app SPB-TV, to interact directly with users ... See all stories on this topic »

Predicting crime online and offline Aljazeera.com Can artificial intelligence accurately monitor social media and surveillance cameras for potential crimes or crisis events? That's one of the goals of an EU-backed research project known as INDECT. Researchers are developing new means of threat ... See all stories on this topic »