Artificial Intelligence - Last Week News December 1-8, 2009

Apache moves forward with machine-learning project - When Bradford Cross and the FlightCaster team launched their startup earlier this year, they had already spent months building systems that could learn from the FAA and airline information...

GeckoSystems learns new insights during home care robot trials  - GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. announced today that during their first week of real world evaluation trials, for their fully autonomous personal companion home care robot, the CareBot...

As robots become more common, Stanford experts consider the legal challenges(PhysOrg.com) -- They already detect and defuse bombs, control traffic patterns and do some basic household chores...
Artificial Intelligence - Last Week News. December 9-14, 2009

Australian software offers fix for GPS errors - Artificial intelligence could soon make GPS navigation far more accurate and easy to use - even accounting for human error - thanks to an Australian-developed technology....

Analyticbridge's Comprehensive News Feeds Now Deliver Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Cloud Computing...  - AnalyticBridge just launched the most comprehensive analytics news feed, featuring thousands of news article pertaining to state-of-the-art developments in the fields of analytics, business intelligence...

Northrop links to academics to boost cyber defense-- Northrop Grumman Corp unveiled Tuesday an industry-academic research group to tackle growing cyber threats to U.S. computer networks and to networked infrastructure....

 

Artificial Intelligence - Last Week News December 14-21

 Rethinking artificial intelligence: Researchers hope to produce 'co-processors' for the human mind - .The new project, launched with an initial $5 million grant and a five-year timetable, is called the Mind Machine Project...

Robotic Arms Avoid Collision  - Experimental software developed by Harris Corporation, an international communication equipment company, could help make robots less clumsy and dangerous....

Pentagon: Zombie Pigs First, Then Hibernating Soldiers--Military’s mad-science arm Darpa has awarded $9.9 million to the Texas A&M Institute for Preclinical Studies (TIPS), to develop treatments that can extend a “golden period” when injured war fighters have the best chance of coming back from massive blood loss....

 

Artificial Intelligence - Last Week News December 21-28

Rain or Shine? Computer Models How Brain Cells Reach a Decision- Yale University researchers have devised a computer model to explain how the brain makes decisions based on statistical probabilities-as, for instance, when a doctor makes a diagnosis based on several conflicting test results....

 Japanese Store Selling Custom-Made Robots That Look Like Their Owners - Department store competition is fierce in Japan during the winter holidays, with every store trying to come up with the most attention-catching promotional campaign. This year, the department store Sogo & Seibu may top them all with its offer of robots that are custom-made to look just like their owners....

Building Real Security With Virtual Worlds-- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore and predict results of many different possible military and policy actions, say computer science researchers at the University of Maryland....

Artificial Intelligence - Last Week News January2010-4

DIAGNOS Has Commenced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Registration Process for Its CARA Application -DIAGNOS inc. , a leader in the use of artificial intelligence and advanced knowledge extraction techniques, announced today that it has begun the U.S. FDA registration process for its CARA (Computer Assisted Retinal Analysis) ...

 FX Concepts Embraces Artificial Intelligence - Currency-trading giant FX Concepts is working with a team of academics to apply the principles of machine learning—“the practical side of artificial intelligence”—to its quantitative trading strategies.....

Computer Algorithm Identifies Authentic Van Gogh-- Tilburg University in the Netherlands has developed computer algorithms to support art historians and other art experts in their visual assessment of paintings. His digital technology is capable of distinguishing a forgery from an authentic Van Gogh based on the painter's characteristic brush work and use of colour.....

Artificial Intelligence - Last Week NewsJanuary2010-11

Irish Scientists Develop User Review Technique - Scientists at University College Dublin (UCD) have developed a system intended to improve the helpfulness of online customer reviews, and have been awarded a distinguished paper award at the British Computer Society's annual Artificial Intelligence Conference for their efforts. Barry Smyth, Michael O'Mahony, Maurice Coyle, and Peter Briggs of UCD, as well as Pierre-Antoine Champin, a visiting professor from the University of Lyon, examined 225,000 reviews by 45,000 distinct reviewers on 70,000 hotels on the travel website TripAdvisor. According to their research, as much as 65% of reviews did not provide useful information. In response, they applied machine learning techniques to discover the factors that make for a helpful review ...

 Soon, 'smart' wheelchairs that navigate on their own- Lehigh University esearchers are developing so-called 'smart wheelchair' with artificial intelligence that uses lasers, sensors and mapping software to operate and navigate on its own, with no human guidance or remote control....

Singularity University Gives Execs a View of the Future-- The school's executive program offers participants the chance to learn and discuss how technology is changing, or even disrupting, their industries.....

 

Artificial Intelligence - Last Week News January 18

Criticisms of the Singularity - Is superhuman intelligence feasible, or even desirable? Part seven in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic. New posts every Monday from November 16 to January 23 ...

 Moving Video to 'Captcha' Robot Hackers- Captcha  codes, which are becoming increasingly complicated for an average person to use, are not immune to security holes....

Foresight 2010: the Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and AGI-- The Foresight Institute, an organization close to the Singularity Institute, is holding their 2010 conference at the Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel this January 16-17. Here is the blurb from the website of the conference: Join us in for an exciting conference focused on the Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and general Artificial Intelligence and celebrate the....

GeckoSystems' Elder Care Robot Trials Resume After Holiday Break- GeckoSystems Intl. Corp.  announced today that they have resumed their in home personal companion robot trials for elder care after pausing during the Holidays. GeckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the emerging Mobile Service Robot (MSR) industry revolutionizing their development and usage with "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service(TM)..

Artificial Intelligence - Last Week News January 25

True Companion Sexbot Alters the Dating Landscape - Roxxxy debuted at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. Douglas Hines, the robot's inventor, told The Telegraph that Roxxxy is much more than her blow-up predecessors. "She's a companion. She has a personality. She hears you. She listens to you. She speaks. She feels your touch ...

Windows Mail Recovery 3.0 (Windows) - Windows Mail Recovery has been designed to help you get back even those e-mail messages that you considered to be lost forever. Sophisticated Artificial Intelligence algorithm employed by the software allows recovering email messages even if they have been removed from the Deleted Items folder and the Recycle Bin has been emptied.....

Criminal Record Inc. Announces Fastest and Most In-Depth Criminal Records System Available-- Criminal Record has announced the deployment of powerful new programming, databases and hardware that make conducting a criminal records search anywhere in the United States a much more accurate and painless process.....

 Microsoft demonstrates Kurzweil's Blio e-reader software - The FREE Blio eReader software is the new touchstone for the presentation of electronic books & magazines. Stunning, full-color pages come alive in brilliant 3D. Even image-rich books are now at your digital fingertips — because Blio preserves a book’s original layout, fonts, and graphics...

Artificial Intelligence - Last Week News  February 8

Welcome the decade of artificial intelligence - AS the global economy limps out of the last decade and enters a new one in 2010, what will be the next big driver of global growth? Here's betting that the "teens" is a decade in which artificial intelligence hits escape velocity, and starts to have an economic impact on par with the emergence of India and China....

Artificial intelligence pioneer helped machines think like humans - A child Ray Solomonoff developed what would become a lifelong passion for mathematical theorems, and as a teenager he became captivated with the idea of creating machines that could learn and ultimately think.In 1952 he met Marvin Minsky, a cognitive scientist who was also exploring the idea of machine learning, and John McCarthy, a young mathematician. And within four years, they and seven other scientists, as part of the original Dartmouth Summer Research Project, had founded a new field and given it a name: artificial intelligence....

Robot revolution promises amazing future-- It will be interesting to watch the robot revolution unfold over the next couple of decades. Between now and 2015, Asian, U.S., and EU entrepreneurs will scramble to develop new innovations in robotics and automated systems. Strong focus will be placed in ‘bots that improve home life and assist the elderly and handicapped; and industry systems that help with security ID, customer service, and sales......

 Researchers find new method of fixing broken proteins to treat genetic diseases-  Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have demonstrated how it could be possible to treat genetic diseases by enhancing the natural ability of cells to restore their own mutant proteins. ...

 

 

Artificial Intelligence - Last Week News February 15

Jan. 25, 1979: Robot Kills Human - 1979. A 25-year-old Ford Motor assembly line worker is killed on the job in a Flint, Michigan, casting plant. It’s the first recorded human death by robot.

Robert Williams’ death came on the 58th anniversary of the premiere of Karel Capek’s play about Rossum’s Universal Robots. R.U.R gave the world the first use of the word robot to describe an artificial person. Capek invented the term, basing it on the Czech word for “forced labor.” (Robot entered the English language in 1923.)

Williams died instantly in 1979 when the robot’s arm slammed him as he was gathering parts in a storage facility, where the robot also retrieved parts. Williams’ family was later awarded $10 million in damages. The jury agreed the robot struck him in the head because of a lack of safety measures, including one that would sound an alarm if the robot was near. ...

Robocalypse Alert: New Transistor Mimics Synapse Functions - Talk of androids, advanced computer-based brain simulations and war robots is very exiting, but the development of artificial intelligence has been slightly stumped by a lack of transistors that work like our brains do. Until now.

Now, thanks to scientists in France, we have the NOMFET--the nanoparticle organic memory field-effect transistor. It's an organic-based device that uses pentacene and gold nanoparticles. The pentacene is a coating on the gold, which is embedded in the channel of a semiconducting transistor. This results in the transistor having the same type of switching/amplification behavior as a usual transistor with the benefits of a sort of "memory effect."....

Garry Kasparov On 'Chess Metaphors': The Chess Master And The Computer-- In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next, making my moves over a period of more than five hours......