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| Manuela Veloso Awarded Einstein Chair Professor |
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"The Einstein Professorship Program is a key initiative of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Einstein Professorships will be awarded each year to 20 distinguished international scientists actively working at the frontiers of science and technology. ...Dr. Veloso is the only Einstein Chair Professor in AI, Robotics, and Computer Science this year." | |
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| Alan Bundy Elected to the Royal Society |
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Congratulations to Alan Bundy on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society on April 20, 2012 Citation from Royal Society website: "Alan Bundy has made world-leading contributions to both automated reasoning and the automated formation and evolution of representations of knowledge. He has developed novel techniques with improved efficiency, range and behaviour. His work on automated reasoning has found application in hardware and software systems development, where it has increased the level of automation. It has decreased the skill level and development time required to verify computer programs and has been taken up by industry. His work on representation evolution facilitates communication between agencies with different representations of related knowledge." The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. There are 44 newly elected Fellows of the Society. | |
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| New DARPA $2m Grand Challenge |
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DARPA Robotics Challenge: Here Are the Official Details. IEEE Spectrum, POSTED BY: Erico Guizzo & Evan Ackerman / Tue, April 10, 2012. Today the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is announcing a bold new program aiming to advance robotics technology for disaster response. The DARPA Robotics Challenge is offering tens of million of dollars in funding to teams from anywhere in the world to build robots capable of performing complex mobility and manipulation tasks such as walking over rubble and operating power tools. It all will culminate with an audacious competition with robots driving trucks, breaking through walls, and attempting to perform repairs in a simulated industrial-disaster setting. The winner takes all: a $2 million cash prize. | |
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| Congratulations to Judea Pearl |
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"Judea Pearl, a Big Brain Behind Artificial Intelligence, Wins Turing Award" Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone's Siri speech recognition technology and Google's driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. Turing Award, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize in Computing," recognizes Pearl for his advances in probabilistic and causal reasoning. He has conducted research in recent years on computers and morality, an issue that becomes more relevant as interaction between humans and robots becomes more real.... | |
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Early work in AI, in areas such as story understanding and commonsense reasoning, tried to tackle the problem head on, but ultimately failed for three main reasons. First, methods for representing and reasoning with uncertain information were not well understood; second, systems could not be grounded in real experience, without first solving AI-complete problems of vision or language understanding; and third, there were no well-defined, meaningful tasks against which to measure progress. ...we are now at a time when we are well-poised to make serious progress on the goal of building systems that understand human experience. Each of the previous barriers is weakened ... [This problem] will be a driving challenge for work in AI in the years to come, and results from the work will profoundly impact our knowledge of how we live and interact with the world and with each other. Henry Kautz, "Understanding Human Experience". Position paper for the article, "Artificial Intelligence: The Next Twenty-Five Years", Matthew Stone and Haym Hirsh, editors, AI Magazine, 26(4): Winter 2005, 85–97. |  Henry Kautz President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |
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