Nasa to irradiate monkeys for space voyage research... Nov 3, 2009
" There's no "beauty" to this. Disgusting, abusive, repellant, inexcusable, horrifying. Yes. Elizabeth on November 03, 2009 at 08:31 AM Ironically, if they had continued developing nuclear rocket engines (NERVA) instead of killing off the program in the 1960's we wouldn't have to deal with this problem of long term exposure to radiation during an excessively slow trip to Mars by chemical rocket propulsion. Most estimates are for a 2 year round trip using conventional rockets... nuclear... (The Drudge Report)
Critic's Rave: 'Astro Boy' offers mixed bag of warmth, action, dark themes Nov 3, 2009
If the premise sounds vaguely familiar, it is likely because similar storylines have been a staple of science fiction and fantasy films for a number of years, most recently in Steven Spielberg s reimagining of the Pinocchio story in A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Most of that film s thematically pertinent elements reappear in Astro Boy, from the use of an android as an emotional replacement for a lost child to the ethical questions raised by carelessly destroying self-aware machinery as... (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
MIT develops AI-based 'driving buddy' Nov 3, 2009
By observing a driver's habits, the artificial intelligence tool called AIDA (Affective Intelligent Driving Agent) learns routines and how best to and maintenance ... MIT's artificial intelligence tool called AIDA will serve as a driving buddy for Audi and Volkswagons owners. (EETimes)
MIT's Brown discovers a formula for success Nov 3, 2009
"Athletes often do very well because they have to learn how to manage their time, and DeRon is a perfect example," says Patrick Henry Winston, an artificial intelligence and computer science professor who taught Brown last year. "I see him as a successful kid. He was always engaged, just an extraordinarily well-rounded kid who you like to have in class because you know he's interested, intense, team-oriented and extremely likable.". (USA Today -- Sports)
Electrical Engineers Go Head To Head With Genius On Music Playlists Oct 31, 2009
30, 2009) Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius -- the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes -- against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs within the same playlist, the researchers found. (Science Daily)
LIFE.com Partners With Animoto to Present Online Video Galleries Oct 31, 2009
Animoto, Animoto Productions and Cinematic Artificial Intelligence are registered trademarks of Animoto Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Buzz up. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV Digital SLR Ca... Oct 31, 2009
The AI Servo AF in the Canon EOS-1D Mk IV uses a form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to determine the speed and direction of moving subjects, allowing the camera lens to focus on the subject s predicted position in order to increase the number of sharp photographs in sports and wildlife photography. Advanced Low-Light Performance. (Suite101.com)
Lost in a maze Oct 31, 2009
One of the harder-to-find items: Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters, which are priced at upwards of $30 each, and purport to be equipped with "artificial intelligence" that powers them through elaborate mazes that retail for more than $80 ... One of the harder-to-find items: Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters, which are priced at upwards of $30 each, and purport to be equipped with "artificial intelligence" that powers them through elaborate mazes that retail for more than $80. (New York Post -- News)
No funerals, no kids, no wrinkles Oct 29, 2009
But de Grey also has a Cambridge doctorate, a Silicon Valley background in artificial intelligence and editorial control of the peer-reviewed Rejuvenation Research, dangerously mixing his snake oil with science. In 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review offered $20,000 to anyone who could prove his ideas wrong. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Family's gift to SCCC will help growth Oct 29, 2009
SCHENECTADY -- Inventor and engineer Fred Kindl took an artificial intelligence class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a few years ago to ensure he didn't lose his professional engineering license. The Stockade resident was about 85 years old at the time. (Albany Times Union)
AI program diagnoses abuse Oct 27, 2009
Artificial intelligence program diagnoses abuse ... However, to a new artificial intelligence program developed by Boston doctors, these are all symptoms of domestic abuse ... are the lynchpin of the artificial intelligence system, according to both Reis and Sege. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Future stock: young minds nurtured Oct 26, 2009
The subjects included biotechnology, space research, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology. Visitors included luminaries such as Vint Cerf and Bob Metcalfe, often called the ''fathers of the internet'', as well as the Nobel laureate physicist George Smoot and 21st-century success stories such as the game design legend Will Wright and the billionaire investor Peter Thiel. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
It’s high time for tv to embrace sci fi Oct 25, 2009
The two-hour premiere, about the dangers of artificial intelligence, is imbued with a sense of doom, and some scary-looking robots to boot. Like Battlestar Galactica (and Dollhouse, ) it proves that the best science fiction is allegory - a way to extrapolate present-day problems to dangerous extremes. (Boston Globe)
‘Astro Boy’ a rocket-powered twist on Pinocchio tale Oct 23, 2009
Set in Metro City, an airborne island paradise hovering high above a ruined Earth, Astro Boy at first seems a fusion of WALL-E, I, Robot, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, and one of Hayao Miyazaki s high-flying fables. Robots of all shapes and kinds serve mankind, and their inventor, Dr. Tenma (voiced by Nicolas Cage), is about to unveil his greatest cyborg yet, a peaceful warrior fueled by blue-core energy from outer space. (Boston Globe)
Review: Fire a 17-million gun salute to 'Borderlands' Oct 23, 2009
The game's artificial intelligence randomly generates guns using parts from all these weapon types. Adding to the variety is elemental powers such as fire, electricity and corrosion to pack an extra punch. (USA Today -- Tech)
Astro Boy: Sweet Sci-Fi for Your Inner Child Oct 23, 2009
Plus the old Philip K. Dick premise, of a man who doesn't know he's a cyborg, that Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg borrowed for A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, and which showed up this year in Moon and Surrogates. Plus the literal underclass and upper-class strata of WALL-E. And not to forget the bereft father, twisted by family tragedy, from last week's Law Abiding Citizen. (Time.com)
MotorStorm(R) Arctic Edge Dares PlayStation(R)2 Off-Roaders to Brave the Harsh, Unpredictable Alaskan Terrain Oct 21, 2009
Adding to the wild and alternative style of the MotorStorm festival, new features of MotorStorm Arctic Edge for the PlayStation 2 system include rugged new tracks, two additional terrain-specific vehicles, vehicle customization options, and life-like Artificial Intelligence (AI) features ... "MotorStorm Arctic Edge is a thrilling addition to the multi-million selling titles MotorStorm and MotorStorm Pacific Rift," said Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President, Product Marketing, SCEA. "The... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Crowd Control Oct 16, 2009
Page last updated at 10:00 GMT, Thursday, 15 October 2009 11:00 UK. DIGITAL PLANET By Dave Lee BBC World Service. (BBC News -- Technology)
Cyborg beetles Oct 14, 2009
Noel Sharkey, professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at the UK's Sheffield University, says that while attempts to control insects such as cockroaches are not new, this is the first time man has managed to remotely control a flying insect ... Noel Sharkey professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at the UK's Sheffield University. (BBC News -- Technology)
Hands-on: Forza 3 Oct 13, 2009
And intense these races are, thanks to the opponent artificial intelligence with drivers often pushing us off the race track and refusing to yield during an overtaking manoeuvre. Crashes are bound to happen as a result and we were generally pleased with the damage effects with huge paint scrapes, smashed headlights and heavily crumpled hoods all affecting the car's handling and speed. (iAfrica.com)
Researchers Probe Computer 'Commonsense Knowledge' Oct 12, 2009
For artificial intelligence scientists, enabling computers to have such human-level intelligence requires a commonsense knowledge base that can evolve and learn new things ... "It's been the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence research since its early days to answer questions that a young child can answer about the world," says Robert Sloan, professor and head of computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago ... Sloan and colleague Gyorgy Turan, professor of mathematics, statistics... (Science Daily)
Cybug: Wired beetle reaches areas where no man can go Oct 12, 2009
Noel Sharkey, professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield, said: At the moment, the bugs wouldnt be able to carry a payload such as a camera, or GPS (receiver) so we could track them. But this research makes me uncomfortable. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Review Oct 10, 2009
Operation Flashpoint can be played online co-operatively with a squad of four, or by yourself, in which case artificial intelligence takes over for the rest of the group. When alone, you'll find it quite necessary to dole out specific commands to your squad. (IGN PC Games)
Computers and sentiments: An emotional response Oct 8, 2009
Some agencies are using tools developed at the University of Arizona s artificial intelligence laboratory to map intense, violent emotion in online forums frequented by political radicals in order to identify surges of bad feelings and even potential terrorists. Hsinchun Chen, director of the laboratory, says that out of 8m postings, his software might be able to isolate hundreds of postings by just 20 or 30 individuals that warrant a closer look. (The Economist)
iPhone the body electric Oct 8, 2009
The iPhone version then was developed by Krueger, who now is at the German Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Fogal says the iPhone app was developed "to reach a wider audience. There may be a lot of people who are not computer savvy but love their iPhone, so getting it into the App Store allows it to be seen by a much larger market.". (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
A singular sensation Oct 3, 2009
In a recent article in the British newspaper Independent the author cites the following: "..in 2005, Mikhail Gorbachev personally congratulated Kurzweil for foreseeing the pivotal role of communications technology in the collapse of the Soviet Union, and ... Microsoft chairman Bill Gates calls him "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence". The author then says that "A man of lesser accomplishments, touting the same head-spinning claims, would impress few beyond... (EETimes)
NBA Live 10 Review Oct 3, 2009
While the artificial intelligence has made strides on the defensive side of the court, there are still oddities that crop up from time to time. For whatever reason players on both teams have issues staying in bounds. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
EBRU TV Honored With Three Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards Oct 1, 2009
Its "Artificial Intelligence" won in the Health/Science category. Also scoring a golden trophy, in the craft of Graphic Arts & Animation, was Ayhan Cebe for his work on EBRU TV's public affairs program Open Forum. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
AIR FORCE - Science Advisors Keep Air Force Ahead of Technology Innovation Curve Sep 30, 2009
" SAB scientists bring expertise from disciplines such as physics, aeronautics, artificial intelligence, human factors, mathematics and engineering. "The SAB leadership tries to balance the expertise across the studies," Colonel Ryan said. "But if they don't have what is needed for a study, we'll bring in consultants who serve on the board for the time it takes to accomplish a specific study. " SAB members also perform a formal review of the Air Force Research Laboratory Science and Technology... (DOD DefenseLINK)
The Rise of Sex Robots and Pleasure Machines Sep 30, 2009
Australian-born Prof Brooks, former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said it was inevitable, and there was precedent, that such technology would be used for sexual purposes ... "At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, but once you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot and it was great!' appear in a magazine like Cosmo, I'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon," artificial intelligence researcher David... (Fox News)
Pioneering cyber-security center to transform crime prevention Sep 24, 2009
Building on Queen's University Belfast's EPSRC-funded ISIS (Integrated Sensor Information System) project which developed the initial system, CSIT will now take the work forward in two key areas: increasing the sophistication of the data analysis techniques which the system incorporates; and equipping the system with the artificial intelligence needed to connect small-scale events, draw conclusions about their significance and prioritise information displayed in CCTV control rooms. Initially... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Dr. Robert Lanza Featured on Michio Kaku's 'Explorations in Science' Sep 22, 2009
Past featured guests include Nobel laureates and top researchers on the topics of string theory, time travel, black holes, gene therapy, aging, space travel, artificial intelligence and SETI.. Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at City College of New York. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Life After Death Sep 21, 2009
Why are computers with many petabytes of storage still unable to form human-like consciousness with artificial intelligence. At some point in the distant future, consciousness could be explained from physical atoms by scientists. (Suite101.com)
Region a strong player in travel websites Sep 20, 2009
The oldest of the companies, Cambridge-based ITA, was founded in 1996 by Jeremy Wertheimer, an alumnus of MIT s artificial intelligence program. ITA s band of programmers got very good at collecting all kinds of information about airfares, schedules, and available seats, and made it possible to search for tickets in a way that was jaw-dropping for the mid-1990s. (Boston Globe)
Babe of the Day: Megan Fox Sep 20, 2009
You see, kids, Babe of the Day is run by a very impressive, but very one-track minded artificial intelligence. We tried to teach it a lesson, and then it tried to 2001 us out an airlock. (IGN FilmForce)
Pedestrian crossings could be monitored Sep 19, 2009
The supporting architecture underlying the model is a multi-agent artificial intelligence system (made up of software agents that carry out the various tasks involved in monitoring the environment. It has been designed according to standards recommended by the FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents), an international committee working to promote the adoption and diffusion of this kind of technology. (EurekAlert!)
Artificial intelligence helps diagnose cardiac infections Sep 13, 2009
Public release date: 12-Sep-2009. Contact: Robert Nellis. (EurekAlert!)
U.K. offers apology to gay WWII codebreaker Sep 12, 2009
Turing also did pioneering work on artificial intelligence, developing the "Turing Test" to measure whether a machine can think. One of the most prestigious honors in computing, the $250,000 Turing Prize, is named for him. (MSNBC -- International)
Monitoring Mt. St. Helens goes high tech Sep 12, 2009
They are also infused with artificial intelligence and use radio waves to communicate with each other and troubleshoot data transmission issues. Geologist Dan Dzurisin said some of the technology was still being tested but looked promising. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR)
Tortured genius Sep 12, 2009
Artificial intelligence. Turing is credited with laying the foundations for computer technology and artificial intelligence. (BBC News -- Technology)
Review: Animated '9' is engaging, inventive Sep 12, 2009
The latest achievement in art direction with an end-of-humanity theme belongs to the CG-animated fantasy-adventure "9," a tale of trust, bravery, and cooperation among a scrap-heap tribe of survivors, set in a desolate near-future where an overarching artificial intelligence known as the Great Machine has turned human-built contraptions into oppressors. With no small debt to the nameless residents of the Village in the great 1960s TV series "The Prisoner," the hero of "9" -- named for the number... (CNN -- Showbiz)
How Do You Analyse A Criminal? Sep 12, 2009
Vanderlooy's research falls within the research discipline of Machine learning, an aspect of artificial intelligence that provides effective and efficient models for the analysis of data. This project was part of the NWO programme ToKeN (Access To Knowledge and its enhancement Netherlands), which focuses on fundamental problems in the interaction between a human user and knowledge and information systems. (Science Daily)
Darkest of Days Sep 11, 2009
From the placeholder user interface to the underdeveloped artificial intelligence and clear lack of quality assurance testing in spots, this game doesn't play, run, or look like something that was given enough time to achieve its full potential. Since it's now available for purchase and link 00004000 ed with a 40 USD price tag, it has to be judged against the rest of the first-person shooter genre on the market. (IGN PC Games)
Digital learning tools drive student success Sep 10, 2009
Artificial intelligence now provides the power behind new tutoring software for accounting courses that is proven to increase test scores by at least a full letter grade. Then there's , an online note-sharing Web site for students, which operates as an online study group to help students engage in their coursework. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
Technology Monitor: A new Turing test Sep 10, 2009
IF A computer could fool a person into thinking that he were interacting with another person rather than a machine, then it could be classified as having artificial intelligence ... More recently, the abilities of computers to play games such as chess, go and bridge has been regarded as a form of artificial intelligence ... Even if a bot does eventually fool the judges, though, would it really mark a significant advance in artificial intelligence. (The Economist)
Flash! Movie tips from your robot overlords Sep 9, 2009
But the reality of artificial intelligence is a lot weirder than even the machines vs. humanity Matrix movies suggest ... com or rented a movie from Netflix, you ve interacted with a software program that owes its existence to over half a century of research into artificial intelligence ... Larry Page, a co-founder of Google, has said that he thinks artificial intelligence isn t far off and could emerge from Google search. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The Right Honourable Computer, Barrister-at-law Sep 9, 2009
8, 2009) European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention and dispute settlement for European law, and it even supports policy ... The ALIS project () has developed a computerised platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI), game theory and semantic technologies to understand and track the regulations in a large, and expanding area of expertise in this case IPR. ... (July 31,... (Science Daily)
Artificial intelligence company seeks federal grants to grow Sep 9, 2009
The software and artificial intelligence project was morphed into a company in 1994 to further develop, commercialize and apply the technology that the Cyc Project began. That technology seeks to bring reasoning to software applications. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Software predicts which songs will be hits Sep 9, 2009
But Meredith said his company's mathematical algorithms go further by incorporating artificial intelligence. "We train the system to behave the way the human brain does," Meredith said. (San Francisco Chronicle)
All the golden gossip from the British Science Festival Sep 8, 2009
In the lecture theatre next door, "What computers tell us about the mind" reminded the audience that no-one has yet claimed the $100,000 Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence. The prize is for the first computer that passes the Turing Test. (BBC News -- Science)
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artificial intelligence. Jonathan Coulton. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
New Transhumanist Magazine is Going into Print - Digital Edition is Available Now Sep 8, 2009
h+ features regular columns covering the obsessions of the transhumanist culture: artificial intelligence, longevity, biotechnology, body enhancement, neurotechnology, and nanotechnology. h+ is also the place to find continuing coverage of "the singularity"--the theory involving smarter-than-human artificial intelligences that has become a growing obsession among technophiles and is spreading out into popular culture ... artificial intelligence. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Evil Ink: A Robot Impersonator Opens a Blog to Post Spam From the Future Sep 8, 2009
"The main technique today to identify these blogs is machine learning, an artificial intelligence technique," Finin explains. "The trick is to identify the fingerprints of these robot blogs what words they use, their patterns of updating, the ads they host.". (Scientific American)
If Google and Amazon Ran the Web Sep 8, 2009
The , called "The Future of the Internet," had a similar feel, with researchers David Clark, professor at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Taieb Znati, division director for the National Science Foundation, talking up the idea of virtualizing communications networks in order to create several networks optimized for delivering different types of applications. By the way, this focus on the ability to deliver a specific application vs. delivering a set speed is a... (BusinessWeek)
* A singular school seeking solutions on a global scale Sep 7, 2009
The subjects included biotechnology, space research, artificial intelligence and nanotech; visitors included luminaries such as Vint Cerf and Bob Metcalfe, often called the fathers of the Internet, as well as Nobel laureate and physicist George Smoot and 21st-century success stories such as game design legend Will Wright and billionaire investor Peter Thiel. The students X or their sponsors X have paid US$25,000 each to attend this high-tech summer camp. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The work of rescuing our work Sep 7, 2009
Through all the labor-saving devices and artificial intelligence that have been spawned, humans are left feeling less liberated than exiled. The nightmare of modernity, since Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, has been of an invasion of the home planet by creatures from some other world, but we have reversed that story. (Boston Globe)
In Google we trust: our new faith Sep 7, 2009
Beyond this elegant spoof, and the serious philosophical argument it makes in favour of atheism, the entire Google phenomenon takes us down the slippery path of artificial intelligence, a direction computer science appears to be heading ... No, says Surowiecki, who studied popular culture, psychology, mass marketing, artificial intelligence, military history, game theory and even ant biology in preparing the book. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Ideas factory Sep 6, 2009
For instance, Professor Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, wants to cut the number of cars on planet earth by 50 ... "To be able to understand the environment as deep as humans do is the holy grail of artificial intelligence. "It's a huge amount of work to make computers understand what is the behaviour of the two people on the right, both waiting at an intersection - will they walk or not. (BBC News)
Q&A: Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser Sep 3, 2009
All kinds of little reasons, obviously, the machines are much more powerful, which means we can do a lot more calculations, we can make things look a lot more detailed, play a lot more detailed, more artificial intelligence systems running in the background to make the game world more alive. But that's what we've been doing since GTA III, and just got more experience doing. (USA Today -- Tech)
Surrogates Edit Bay Visit Sep 3, 2009
"There's been a zillion robot movies, but they've all been sentient. They're autonomous. They're independently thinking. They've got artificial intelligence. But these are puppets. They don't do anything you don't tell them to do;It's just a very, very simple idea;". And as for sequels. (IGN FilmForce)
Healthcare: The Road To Robotic Helpers Sep 2, 2009
Using artificial intelligence, they are creating software which will learn and. (June 27, 2007) The death rate from traffic injuries is higher in Africa than in any other region of the world, and yet research into improving road safety in Africa is scarce, argues Emmanuel Lagarde (French. (Science Daily)
SARS spurs China to act on AIDS Sep 1, 2009
The robotics expert thinks artificial intelligence is an illusion that could lead to a future of unintelligent, unfeeling robot carers and soldiers. FEATURE: 10:14 01 September 2009. (Yahoo News -- SARS)
Thousands call for Turing apology Aug 31, 2009
However he also made significant contributions to the emerging fields artificial intelligence and computing. In 1936 he established the conceptual and philosophical basis for the rise of computers in a seminal paper called "On Computable Numbers" whilst in 1950 he devised a test to measure the intelligence of a machine. (BBC News -- UK)
An Intelligent System Helps Elderly Or Memory-impaired To Remember Everyday Tasks Aug 31, 2009
30, 2009) A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has created a system with Artificial Intelligence techniques which notifies elderly people or people with special needs of the forgetting of certain everyday tasks ... This is how the new intelligent system developed by researchers from the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the UGR works ... The activities of the people are assessed with Artificial Intelligence techniques (data mining and formal... (Science Daily)
I will make TCS more visible: S Ramadorai Aug 30, 2009
They seemed some mysterious artificial intelligence driven machines which would take away jobs. In a career spanning 37 years, from trainee engineer to chief executive of TCS, the rise of the Indian technology services can be paralled with Ramadorais contribution to the Tatas and the industry. (India Times)
