AI Happenings October 2011

Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to the iPhone, And It's Going to Change ...
Mashable
However, your phone is about to become a whole lot smarter, thanks to Apple and its new artificial intelligence Assistant. The hype surrounding Tuesday's Apple iPhone event is at an all-time high. But most of the hype is focused on the hardware that ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Next Super Trader?
The Open Press (press release)
(OPENPRESS) October 3, 2011 -- "Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Next Super Trader?" was a presentation by Mr. Adam Afshar, Chief Executive Officer and President, Hyde Park Global. He will speak podium at Golden Networking's High Frequency Trading ...

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence Personal Assistant
Huffington Post UK
Artificial Intelligence Assistants are at last making a proper entrance. Most of you will remember Clippit, that annoying Microsoft Office paperclip, and it's quite amazing how far we've come in the space of just a few years. There's a rising number of ...

RoboRat: Israelis Create Rodent With Robot Brain
ABC News (blog)
In the technological journey towards artificial intelligence, Israeli researchers have made the next giant leap: the RoboRat. Matti Mintz of Tel Aviv University in Israel and his fellow scientists have built a rodent-sized artificial cerebellum that ...

Robots mania
Washington Post
The robot Aila (Artificial Intelligence Lightweight Android) is pictured at the CeBIT IT fair on March 3 in Germany. Alia not only has the ability to recognize objects, but it can also lift them. The IT model robot is displayed at iRobot headquarters ...

Personal Artificial Intelligence - Free software downloads and ...
Personal Artificial Intelligence P.A.I. for short is a project which emulates a human chat (simple terms it emulates you friends on msn so to speak). At the moment ...

     

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. ...