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 »

Artificial Intelligence News 8 August 2012

Ultimate Mobile Technologies, UAVs and Artificial Intelligence SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) The military's technology of today, will be in the commercial sector tomorrow. The X-47B is not just a demonstration of mobile communications, remote sensors and artificial intelligence, but also a demonstration of M2M (machine-to-machine) communication. See all stories on this topic » SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)

Soon, space robots like Curiosity may evolve even greater intelligence VentureBeat But robotics and artificial intelligence continue to advance at an exponential rate. As we look towards the future of space exploration in the next decade and beyond, we can expect the next generation of space robots to be orders of magnitude more powerful ... See all stories on this topic » VentureBeat

Will Artificial Intelligence Improve Airport Service? A CBS This Morning Report Peter Greenberg.com Travel News ... to Know About Airport Security: A CBS This Morning Report · Travel Contest: Olympic Travel Takeaway–Week 1 Challenge · Ancillary Revenue Update: New Charges, Hidden Fees & What You Can Do · Will Artificial Intelligence Improve Airport Service? See all stories on this topic »

Clubs artificial intelligence Gladstone Observer THIS year saw the completion of the long overdue artificial surface installed at Rigby Park. With the installation of the artificial surface, two Gladstone sides won their respective age state titles and Gladstone Hockey can boast about having 17 of their members ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial intelligence can help Thistle in cup battle Glasgow Evening Times Artificial intelligence can help Thistle in cup battle. JACKIE McNAMARA is confident Partick Thistle can handle Forfar's artificial pitch as he sets his sights on another cup triumph. Tweet. Custom byline text: By CHRIS JACK. The Jags head to Station Park ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientists: Modern Pop Music All Sounds The Same CBS Local The study, conducted by the Spanish National Research Council, was led by Joan Serra, a specialist in Artificial Intelligence. Using the Million Song Dataset, an archive of music that breaks down music so its data could be crunched, the researchers ran 50 ... See all stories on this topic » CBS Local

Brain imaging can predict how intelligent you are, study finds Eureka! Science News Updated by artificial intelligence Thu, 2 Aug 2012, 21:40:08 EDT Learn more. Tell your friends. Get science news via. Astronomy Space · Biology Nature · Environment Climate ... More recent research has pinpointed the brain's lateral prefrontal cortex, a region just behind the temple, as a critical hub for high-level mental processing, with activity levels there predicting another 5 percent of variation in individual intelligence. Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that another 10 percent of ... See all stories on this topic » Eureka! Science News

MIT researchers code a new programming language TG Daily Email. Share. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have written a new programming language dubbed "Halide." MIT graduate student Jonathan Ragan-Kelley describes Halide as an optimized language for ... See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

Nerds on Film: 10 Techie Character Types We Love Mashable 1. The Robot That Wants to Be Human. Film: A.I. Artificial Intelligence. In A.I. Artificial Intelligence, David wants nothing more than to be accepted as a normal human boy. The desire for belonging is a prevalent plot point in many tech movies. Photo courtesy of ... See all stories on this topic »

LEGO LASR! Armed with Science For his day time job, William Adams works in the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence at the Naval Research Laboratory, supporting research in human-robot interaction, sensing, and autonomy. He manages the resources of the Center's ... See all stories on this topic »