Artificial Intelligence Around Us
Newsletter
Issue 3
March 8, 2010
This newsletter is for thinking people who has any interest in Artificial Intelligence
Welcome
Popular
gaming program making UC Santa Cruz one of the elite
Four years ago, the Baskin School of Engineering's computer science department began offering degrees in game design. Now the program boasts more than 400 undergraduate students and 18 doctoral and master's students... Other schools with programs in game design include Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Southern California and Georgia Tech. But the program at UCSC sets itself apart from the others as being one of the only ones to cross the disciplinary divide between technology and design....
Narus Develops a Scary Sleuth for Social Media
Narus is developing a new technology that sleuths through billions of pieces of data on social networks and Internet services and connects the dots.The new program, code-named Hone, is designed to give intelligence and law enforcement agencies a leg up on criminals who are now operating anonymously on the Internet.
Scientists at IIIT-A working on ISS to probe into
terrorists' disguise
The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A) is developing an intelligent surveillance system (ISS) which has the potential of figuring out miscreants and terrorists by penetrating into their disguise and makeovers.... In the first phase of the project, scientists are devising a smart and intelligent counter-terrorism mechanism wherein smart surveillance camera system is being developed by scientists of IIIT-A and experts of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Virtual Musicians, Real Performances: How
Artificial Intelligence Will Change Music
North Carolina’s Zenph Sound Innovations (Zenph Studio ) models the musical performances of musicians from Thelonius Monk to Rachmaninoff, based on how they played in occasionally old, scratchy recordings. Using that model, the company creates new recordings as they would be played by deceased musicians, if they were around to record with today’s equipment, to critical acclaim. And that’s just for starters.
Text 2.0: the book that knows it's being read
The future of eBook readers could be text that knows it's being read, according to researchers from German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.
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UCSD Researcher Calls on SmartAction(TM) Virtual
Agents to Capture and Report Student Illness Symptoms for CDC
Pilot Program SmartAction Virtual Agents are based on an artificial intelligence engine that enables them to conduct natural language voice conversations. Once Virtual Agents have been trained for a new task, they can provide services that previously required a human to perform. For the UCSD application, "virtual nurses" quickly and efficiently gather illness symptoms via a telephone interview.
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Sci-Frightening:
Getting too big for our bootsThis may all seem rather far fetched, but as a child who grew up in the 80s, I am watching the science fiction of that generation come true today. Touch screens are as common place as pencils and video conferencing is actually far cooler than we had thought it would have been. Internet speeds are ridiculously fast (especially in South Korea) and the development of dedicated robot assistants is far more advanced than we recognise here in Barbados.
New Book
Artificial Intelligence is already here, according to Artificial Intelligence Around Us (ISBN 978-1-58909-666-4), an intriguing and insightful new book just released by Bookstand Publishing.
"Artificial intelligence is already upon us," says author and researcher Dr. Yuri Iserlis. "It not just something coming in the distant future. Every day, we enjoy the fruits of the work being done in this field, yet we are hardly aware of it. In fact, AI systems are everywhere around us, and many of these we encounter on a routine basis in our daily lives. This book is intended to give the reader a better understanding what is currently going on around us, and why."
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