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AI in the News: Interesting News Stories about AI
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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 - August 07, 2011
- August 04, 2011: You (YOU!) Can Take Stanford's 'Intro to AI' Course Next Quarter, For Free. IEEE Spectrum. "Tweet Stanford has been offering portions of its robotics coursework online for a few years now, but professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig are kicking things up a notch (okay, lots of notches) with next semester's CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. This is more than just downloading materials and following along with a live stream; you're actually going to have to do all the same work as the Stanford students. There will be at least 10 hours per week of studying, along with weekly graded homework assignments. The professors will be available to answer your questions."(info)
- July 26, 2011: Love Is in the Water For Some Reason at RoboSub 2011. IEEE Spectrum. "Tweet It's the 14th year of AUVSI's RoboSub competition, which of course means that all of this year's challenges are love-themed. Anyway, the competition took place from July 12 to 17 at the U.S. Navy's SPAWAR System Center down in San Diego, where nearly 30 teams (including both high school and international teams) unleashed their autonomous robot submarines against a hapless swimming pool filled with gates, buoys, paths to follow, objects to retrieve, and targets to torpedo. If you're wondering why this is so hard, here's a comment on last year's competition from the 2010 Maryland team's advisor: Some more food for thought on how difficult the competition is: navigation for subs can t rely on GPS (GPS signals only penetrate a few inches in the water), there s no contact with the ground (so you can t use encoders), and substantial random currents render dead reckoning worthless. So yeah, even tasks that would be a dead cinch for a robot driving on land is extremely difficult for a robot under the water."(info)
- August 03, 2011: Susan Greenfield: Living online is changing our brains. NewScientist. "How do you respond to those who say there's no evidence for this?When people say there is no evidence, you can turn that back and say, what kind of evidence would you imagine there would be? Are we going to have to wait for 20 years and see that people are different from previous generations? We know the human brain can change and the environment can change it. She also reviews evidence showing there's a change in violence, distraction and addiction in children, linked to the pervasion of technology."(info)
- August 04, 2011: Students' Innovative 3-D Vision System Wins Prize. Popular Science. "This week I had the honor of crowning the winner of National Instruments’ student design competition, in which students show off the various inventive ways they use NI’s LabView software. For those who don’t know, NI builds the software and systems by which an engineer can test and prototype pretty much anything, from an irrigation system to a rocket. Rice University built a sensor-filled baseball that precisely transmits the mechanics of a throw to better teach pitching. They conquered the classic glasses-or-no-glasses problem by simply stepping around it: instead of a conventional flat screen, they built a four-sided glass enclosure which displays the four sides of a simulated object."(info)
- August 04, 2011: Markings Point to the Existence of Liquid Water on the Martian Surface Today. Popular Science. "All week we’ve heard rumblings from NASA that big Mars science news would drop today, and sure enough that news is big: NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has quite possibly found liquid water flowing on the surface of Mars. Not water that flowed millennia ago, or water that once flowed but is now permanently ice. It underscores the idea that Mars could indeed be capable of harboring some kind of life. The evidence comes to us in the form of the finger-like features you see running down the slope of the crater in the pic above (and in the animation below)."(info)
- August 04, 2011: A Sensor-Packed Shipping Container That Folds Flat in 30 Seconds. Popular Science. "In the half-century since Malcom McLean, an entrepreneurial former trucker from North Carolina, first began packing freight onto ships in uniform steel boxes, shipping containers have transformed the way we move most of the goods on Earth. As McLean recognized, cargo with consistent dimensions becomes a commodity. As strong as steel and up to five times as corrosion resistant, fiber-reinforced polymer walls make the box lighter and easier to scan than today’s containers. If the container is opened at an unscheduled time, by an unauthorized person, or outside a designated trusted zone, an alarm is triggered and transmits an alert."(info)
- August 01, 2011: Foxconn to Rely More on Robots for Manufacturing. PCWorld. "Foxconn, the maker of Apple's iPhone and iPad, plans to rely more on robots for manufacturing over the coming years, allowing the company to invest more in research and development and save on labor costs. Foxconn CEO Terry Gou made the remarks in a speech last Friday at the company's campus in Shenzhen, China. The Taiwan-based company has more than 1 million employees, the majority of which are located at facilities in mainland China. Aside from Apple, the company also manufactures products for companies like HP, Sony, and Nintendo."(info)
- August 03, 2011: Researchers Modify Kinect Gaming Device to Scan in 3-D. Kurzweilai. "Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, preparing for a future archaeological dig to Jordan, will likely pack a Microsoft Kinect Xbox 360 in the field to take high-quality, low-cost 3-D scans of dig sites. The researchers have figured out a way to extract data streaming from the Kinect’s onboard color camera and infrared sensor to make hand-held 3-D scans of small objects and people. For the initial field application of their modified Kinect dubbed ArKinect (a mashup of archaeology and Kinect) the researchers plan to train engineering and archaeology students to use the device to collect data on a future expedition to Jordan. The steps for making a 3D reconstruction of a real-life stuffed bear (far left) include: 1) projecting a pattern of infrared dots onto the bear to construct a depth map (second from left); 2) connecting nearby dots with a triangular mesh grid (third from left); 3) filling in each triangle in the grid with color and texture information from the Kinect s color camera (far right) (credit: UCSD) The ability to operate the Kinect freehand is a huge advantage over other scanning systems like LIDAR (light detecting and ranging), which creates a more accurate scan but has to be kept stationary in order to be precisely aimed."(info)
- August 04, 2011: Raspberry Pi Interview With Eben Upton. RobotNet. "The robot revolution just got a little closer thanks to some of the cool devices that are coming down the pipe. One such cool device is called the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi device is basically a $25 Linux PC on a credit card sized board! I contacted the Director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Eben Upton, and he graciously answered some of my questions pertaining to his foundation, the Raspberry Pi device, and how the device relates to robotics."(info)
- August 06, 2011: Robot learns from experience - msnbc.com. GoogleNews. "Robot learns from experience Tokyo Institute of Technology Intelligent humanoid robot capable of learning and decision-making in a real environment By John Roach, contributing writer at msnbc.com. This breakthrough demonstrates the evolving ability of robots to adapt to ever-changing environments, according to Osamu Hasegawa , an associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology who is developing the technology. "So far, robots, including industrial robots, have been able to do specific tasks quickly and accurately. " is Technology & Science editor at msnbc.com."(info)
- August 03, 2011: DARPA software to spin "dumb" photos or video into intelligence gold - Network World. GoogleNews. "DARPA wants software/algorithm that can decipher photos/videos If a picture is worth a thousand words, the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) would like to make that about a billion with a new software intelligent program. DARPA this month said it will detail a new system it would like to see built known as the Visual Media Reasoning (VMR) program . The main idea is to develop an advanced software program that can "turn 'dumb' unstructured, ad hoc photos and video into true visual intelligence. "The volume of this visual media is growing rapidly and is quickly outpacing our ability to review, let alone analyze, the contents of every image."(info)
- August 03, 2011: S&P 500 drops below the 200-day moving average: What next? - Futures Magazine. GoogleNews. "The S&P closed at 1254.05 on Tuesday, five points above the March 16 Tsunami selloff intraday Low of 1249.05. A Capitulation Day in a Down Cycle Decliners on the S&P have led Advancers for eight consecutive sessions and we are 18 days into the current selloff which began on July 8. The forward annual performance in this setup is an eyepopping 24-1 with a median return of 24.42% but Reverse Thrust signals are different animals than forward thrust signals. Breaking the 200DMA The S&P closed below the 200DMA today for the first time in 224 trading days."(info)
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