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AI in the News is a AAAI service to alert readers to current news articles in the field of AI that appear in various online news sources. An AI program—NewsFinder—crawls the web looking for AI-related news articles. The collection of articles is first filtered to select only those that mention at least one of many key terms related to AI. Then duplicate articles are detected using a semantic similarity metric, and filtered out. Finally, each article is classified using a bank of support vector machines, one for each of the 19 major topics in AITopics; articles matching no topics are also filtered out of the collection. The resulting collection is published on this web page, in the AI-Alert email list, and in our various topic-oriented and aggregate RSS feeds.
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Recent News Stories - January 30, 2012
- January 26, 2012: Semi-Autonomous Road Train Trial Is a Success. Wired News via Google News. "A semi-autonomous, four-vehicle road train has been successfully demonstrated at Volvos test track in Hllered, Sweden, paving the way for on-road trials. In a road train, cars and trucks with the same destination are grouped together, and control is handed over to a lead vehicle thats under the command of a professional driver. "I have to admit that in the beginning it feels really unusual, when youre kind of prepared to take over at any moment," said Erik Coelingh, technical project manager at Volvo, who enjoyed some relaxing time behind the wheel during a road train trial. Road trains are ideal for rush hour traffic, where cars and trucks follow similar patterns each day." (info)
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- January 23, 2012: Neural network learns to identify group sizes without knowledge of numbers. PhysOrg.com via Google News. "A cognitive sciences research duo out of Universit di Padova, in Italy, have succeeded in building an artificial intelligence network that has through repetition, learned to identify relative group sizes, without counting. After feeding the network 51,800 images, where each was a unique layout of rectangles of various sizes, the researchers found that the new images generated by the system began to demonstrate an awareness of the relative size of different groups without having to perform any counting. Next, to demonstrate ANS, the team fed the system another program that allowed the system to compare different groups that it had seen during the first run and found, based on new images generated, that the system was able to make educated guesses about which was bigger or smaller." (info)
- January 30, 2012: UTP strikes gold at Innova expo in Brussels. Waste Management World via Google News. "DUBBED as an international promotional platform showcasing innovation, research and new technologies at the world stage, the Brussels Innova Exhibition has helped spread Malaysia's fame in research and innovation worldwide. Participated by representatives from 20 countries, the exhibition receives about 4,000 professional visitors and has almost 500 innovations entering the fray to bag coveted medals for the creator organisations or individuals. Associate Professor Dr Hussain Al-Kayeim bagged a gold, a bronze and a special award. While his Orthoptic Therapy Device was awarded a Bronze, his Artificial Neural Network for Boiler Trips, which was carried out with Dr Firas Basim Al-Niami as co-inventor, won gold. Dr Hussain Al-Kayeim also bagged the Prize of the Association of Polish Inventor and Rationalisers for his invention's ability to implement artificial intelligent code for diagnosis of six different types of steam boiler trips which helps in early detection of trips occurrence that can help avoid disasters or accidents." (info)
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- January 28, 2012: Brain Stimulation And Ethics. Science 2.0 via Google News. "Transcranial direct current stimulation (or TDCS), is a type of non-invasive brain stimulation in which weak electrical currents are applied to the head via electrodes for a short time (about 20 minutes). Most research has focused on using this type of stimulation as a means to improve the cognitive capacities of people with certain psychological or cognitive disabilities. But recent research has shown that TDCS may also improve the cognitive capacities of those without such disabilities. The tools for TDCS, which are inexpensive, portable and (apparently) safe, can be used at any time, for any function, by anyone." (info)
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