Artificial Intelligence

TROY, N.Y. - Edd Hifeng barely merits a second glance in ''Second Life.'' A steel-gray robot with lanky limbs and linebacker shoulders, he looks like a typical avatar in the popular virtual world.But Edd is different.His actions are animated not by a person at a keyboard but by a computer. Edd is a creation of artificial intelligence, or A.I., researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who endowed him with a limited ability to converse and reason. It turns out ''Second Life'' is more than a place where pixelated avatars chat, in ...

Selmer Bringsjord, director of the Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Laboratory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, sees Edd Hifeng, an avatar in the virtual world Second Life, as a forerunner to more sophisticated creations that could interact with people not behind a computer screen, but inside three-dimensional projections of places like subway stops or city streets.TROY, N.Y. - Edd Hifeng barely merits a second glance in "Second Life." A steel-gray robot with lanky limbs and linebacker shoulders, he looks like a ty ...

T hanks to Hollywood and directors like Steven Spielberg, there's probably no term that conjures up images of the future more than "artificial intelligence." Over at the University of Georgia, though, it's a slightly more pedestrian term.The Artificial Intelligence Center is an interdepartmental research and instructional center within UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. On a recent busy afternoon in a lab, a graduate student working on tiny computer chips explained his work on a "smart" wheelchair. When finished, it will all ...

Warner Robins teen engineers device to translate hand jive into spoken wordsColby Wilkason is a real hands-on kind of young scientist.The 17-year-old junior at Warner Robins High has parlayed her interests in science and music into a computer application that holds promise for deaf and blind people.And it all started more than a dozen years ago when a precocious 4-year-old couldn't keep her hands to herself."She was a very busy kid and had already torn the wallpaper off in her room a few times," said Laura Wilkason, Colby's mother. "S ...

Like a good gambler, Daphne Koller, a researcher at Stanford whose work has led to advances in artificial intelligence, sees the world as a web of probabilities.There is, however, nothing uncertain about her impact.A mathematical theoretician, she has made contributions in areas like robotics and biology. Her biggest accomplishment - and at age 39, she is expected to make more - is creating a set of computational tools for artificial intelligence that can be used by scientists and engineers to do things like predict traffic jams, impr ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) being used at the European Space Operations Centre is giving a powerful boost to ESA's Mars Express as it searches for signs of past or present life on the Red Planet.Since January 2005, Mars Express has been using its sophisticated instruments to study the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of Mars, confirming the presence of water and looking for other signatures of life on and below the Red Planet's rocky terrain.The spacecraft generates huge volumes of scientific data, which must be downloaded to Earth ...

During the Go Tournament in Paris, staged between 22 and 24 March 2008 by the French Go Federation (FFG), the MoGo artificial intelligence (IA) engine developed by INRIA - the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control - running on a Bull NovaScale supercomputer, won a 9x9 game of Go against professional 5th DAN Catalin Taranu. This was the first ever officially sanctioned 'non blitz' victory of a 'machine' over a Go Master.More Complex Than Chess, More Possible Combinations Than the Number of Particles in ...

JOHN McCARTHY IS an optimist. Yet the field McCarthy is most commonly associated with, artificial intelligence, has made little progress since 1956, when he convened the first Dartmouth conference."I've been working on logical AI since 1958," he says, "and I've done some I think good work (and other people also), but still we don't have human-level intelligence yet. I can't predict any definite date at which it will be achieved, even though Ray Kurzweil is eager to say it will happen by 2029. If I live to be 102 and am still capable o ...

Artificial intelligence is the science and engineering of making machines think like humans.It was born during a 1956 Dartmouth conference, when a few prominent computer scientists came together to discuss how to achieve intelligent machines, rather than machines that are massive numbers crunchers. At the conference, Carnegie Tech professors Herbert Simon and Allen Newell introduced "Logic Theorist," which solved complicated mathematical theorems and is known as the first AI program.Because scientists saw things such as higher math an ...

Science fiction is filled with unusual alien species. But apart from the occasional robot, biological life is running the show. But NASA scientist, Dr. Steven Dick, sees a future Universe that has evolved past biology. Where every intelligence is artificial. Consider the likelihood of a postbiological Universe.Does intelligent life exist beyond Earth? It's easily the most profound and challenging question that humans have ever asked. The consequences of discovering other intelligent life would ripple through every aspect of human soci ...

At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust.Hooked up to a database of words clustered by association, the robot -- dubbed Kansei, or "sensibility" -- responds to the word "war" by quivering in what looks like disgust and fear. It hears "love" and its pink lips smile. "To live among people, robots need to handle complex social tasks," said project leader Junichi Takeno of Meiji University. "Robots ...

Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who helped advance artificial intelligence only to become a critic of the technology later in his life, has died. He was 85.Weizenbaum died March 5 of complications from stomach cancer at a daughter's home in Groeben, just outside the German capital, Miriam Weizenbaum, one of his four daughters, said Thursday.Weizenbaum was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1960s when he developed ELIZA - named for Eliza Doolittle, the heroine of "My Fair Lady" - which became h ...

Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Bayesian Networks: A Practical Guide to Applications" to their offering.Bayesian Networks, the result of the convergence of artificial intelligence with statistics, are growing in popularity. Their versatility and modelling power is now employed across a variety of fields for the purposes of analysis, simulation, prediction and diagnosis.This book provides a general introduction to Bayesian networks, defining and illustrating the basic concepts with pedagogical examples and twenty re ...

Nearly 100 people who will change your life forever gathered in Memphis recently to discuss the future of artificial intelligence, and to revive the goal of building machines capable of abstract thought.The FedEx Institute of Technology and the University of Memphis hosted the first Conference on Artificial General Intelligence March 1-3.Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a concept that dates to 1955, but only now is there technology that makes it feasible. People encounter artificial intelligence every day and don't realize it. ...

The association of ABG with thyroid disorders (TD) was first described about 40 years ago. These older studies assessed the association between Pernicious Anemia (PA) and Thyroiditis on the basis of gastric and or thyroid auto-antibodies. Only recently systematic studies have focused on this frequently overlooked association.A research article in the World Journal of Gastroenterology investigates the overlooked association. A study was performed on the data set of 29 input variables (concerning anagraphical, life style, family and cli ...

Award-Winning Fingerprint Biometrics Firm Leverages Innovative Dynamic Profiling Technique to Resolve the Widespread Industry Problem of False Negative Match Results M2SYS, an award-winning biometric technology research and development firm, announced today the release of their newest fingerprint biometrics innovation: Bio-AI(TM). This exciting new artificial intelligence enhancement uses a unique "dynamic profiling" technique to learn about a person's fingerprints over time. This knowledge enables the fingerprint software to take act ...

Dolbey to Offer Solution as Fusion CAC Powered by EMscribe; Helps Hospitals Improve Efficiency While Complying with New CMS RegulationsArtificial Medical Intelligence Inc. (AMI) today announced its new add-on module to the inpatient portion of its EMscribe(TM) Dx hospital coding system, providing the industry's first automated Present on Admission (POA) solution.Dolbey, a software developer in the dictation, transcription, speech recognition and coding markets of healthcare will be offering the computer-assisted coding solutions with ...

BROSSARD, QUEBEC, CANADA-- - DIAGNOS inc. , a leader in the use of artificial intelligence and advanced knowledge extraction techniques, announced today, that Sage Gold will use CARDS , DIAGNOS Artificial Intelligence's technology to target copper, nickel and gold on its Ontario properties, Jacobus and Onaman, and vicinity, in the Beardmore, Geraldton Beltop district, Ontario.The outline of the agreement is as follows:- Service fee: $125,000 CDN in cash;- Plus $90,000 CDN worth of shares (share price to be set from the average ten day ...

By D'Arcy DoranLONDON (AP) - British artificial intelligence expert Donald Michie and his former wife, leading geneticist Dame Anne McLaren, have died in a car crash, their son said Sunday.Michie, 84, and McLaren, 80, were killed when their car veered off a highway while they were travelling from Cambridge to the home they shared in London on Saturday, son Jonathan Michie said.Michie was a pioneering artificial intelligence researcher who worked as part of the British code-breaking group at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. ...

A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning.That tool, according to ISI computer scientist Kristina Lerman, is people, human intelligence at work on the social web, the network of blogs, bookmark, photo and video- sharing sites, and other meeting places now involving hundreds of thousands of individuals daily, recording observations and sharing opinions and information. ...

By Scott KirsnerGrowing up in Gardner in the 1980s, Michael Zarozinski used to stop by the bowling alley after school to play Pac-Man, Q*bert, and Donkey Kong. Once he'd fed a few hundred quarters into the machines, though, he started noticing a central limitation."As soon as you learned the pattern the computer characters moved in, the game was beatable," he says. "The experience didn't grow with you."More than two decades later, videogame developers are still hacking away at that same problem: how to create more intelligent, more re ...

BROSSARD, QUEBEC, CANADA - DIAGNOS inc., a leader in the use of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") and advanced knowledge extraction techniques, announced today the signature of an agreement with Phincorp Capital Markets, a specialist in asset and risk management in the foreign exchange market, commodities and indexes.DIAGNOS will receive a royalty on 10% of the revenues of the Phincorp Global Asset Management Division, responsible for asset management, and 10% on the revenues of Phincorp Technical Research Division, responsible to create ...

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT - News) today expands its family of popular home robots, introducing the iRobot Verro(TM) Pool Cleaning Robot, an easier way to a cleaner pool. Verro requires no installation and uses artificial intelligence to clean more effectively and efficiently than traditional pool-cleaning methods. Two models are offered--Verro 300 and Verro 600--priced at $799 and $1,199 respectively and available immediately from irobot.com.Verro is brought to market under the iRobot brand through ...

Quantum Simulations, Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) tutoring, assessment and professional development software, has received $750,000 from the National Eye Institute (NEI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to integrate accessibility into Quantum's tutoring software for chemistry.The two-year project involves the integration of an accessible interface that supports synthesized speech screen-reader technologies such as JAWS and Window-Eyes with the Quantum Tutors. Equally important, the pedagogy ...

Neural Network and Bayes-Powered Technologies Raise the Level of Customer Protection, Reduce Costs to ServeSCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SurfControl (LSE:SRF - News), a leading provider of global on-demand, network and endpoint IT security solutions today announced three new versions of Virtual Content Agent, a neural network based dynamic categorization agent.Recent advances in neural network tuning and neural net training infrastructure have allowed SurfControl to produce new versions of Virtual Content Agent optimized for ...

MONTREAL,Dr. Claude Frasson, a world-renowned thought leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), today announced the creation of uMind, a company specializing in the delivery of a patented, second-generation eLearning software.A result of 10 years of research and development, uMind will deliver two pioneering platforms that teach rather than simply deploy content. Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence, uSim and uLearn estimate, control, and anticipate learner behavior. They build and modify the learning path in real-time and ge ...

Quantum Simulations, Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) tutoring, assessment and professional development software has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to develop new tutoring and assessment software for chemistry.Quantum currently offers 14 software modules covering introductory chemistry and applied mathematics. The additional grant funding will allow Quantum to develop additional new tutoring and assessment modules and further expand its content o ...

For most of us, washing our hands, taking a pill or using the toilet are things we do without much conscious thought. But for people with dementia and their caregivers, these simple seconds-long tasks can stretch into minutes and become exercises in frustration.So researchers at the Toronto Rehab Institute are working on artificial intelligence systems -- including a "smart bathroom" -- that they hope will one day help people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia live more independent lives in their own homes."Often when a pers ...