Tag: Systems

Design and print your own robot
MIT is leading an ambitious new project to reinvent how robots are designed and produced. Funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the project will aim to develop a desktop technology that would make it possible for the average person to design, customize and print a specialized robot in a matter of hours. This research envisions a whole new way of thinking about the design and manufacturing of robots, and could have a profound impact on society, says MIT Professor Daniela Rus, leader of the project and a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). It currently takes years to produce, program and design a functioning robot, and is an extremely expensive process, involving hardware and software design, machine learning and vision, and advanced programming techniques. (more)

CSE Colloquia 2001 - Machines with Emotional Intelligence. Speaker: Rosalind Picard, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"Over 70 studies on human-machine interaction in the last decade have pointed to an intriguing phenomenon: People interact with machines in a way that is basically social, even when the interaction was not designed to be that way. This program will describe how we're giving computers some social skills, specifically the ability to recognize and respond appropriately to human emotion. Examples are shown on keyboard-mouse-monitor systems that try to assess user frustration for usability feedback, and wearable systems that classify affective state based on skin-surface measurements." Questions from the audience follow the talk. October 18, 2001. (more)

Children using Computers to Learn.
Seymor Papert trying to show how kids can use computers to learn. Various shots of fourth grade kids giving mathematical orders to a computer in order to control a HP display, or to create songs. 1968-1969? (more)

Computers in Education.
Stewart Cheifet is joined by guest co-host Herb Lechner [SRI International] for this 1984 broadcast about computers in education with in-studio guests: Professor Patrick Suppes [Stanford University], Nancy Palmer [ Computer Education Coordinator, Palo Alto School District], and Glenn Kleiman [Teaching Tools Microcomputer Services], author of 'Brave New Schools'. . 1984. (more)

ENIAC inventor John Mauchly tells all.
"Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC, first unveiled the ENIAC at University of Pennsylvania in 1946. Here are excerpts from Blastoffmedia's 98-minute documentary, 'The Computer and the Skateboard.'" Clips feature John Mauchly, Kay Mauchly, Mitchell Marcus, Evan Snyder, Joe Chapline, and James Reed. 2000. (more)

Expert Systems.
In this excerpt from "AI: What Can it Do? Where is it Going?," Herbert A. Simon explains the anatomy of expert systems. March 21, 1990. (more)

NATO Advanced Study Institute Workshop on Mining Massive Data Sets for Security (MMDSS 2007) presentation by Ekrem Duman (Dogus University, Turkey) - Detecting Money Laundering Actions Using Data Mining and Expert Systems.
"Nowadays terrorism is one of the biggest troubles that almost every country faces. It mainly influences the economy and the well being of the citizens and this effect is relatively larger in the developed countries. Since the financial sources of terrorist groups can be regarded as black money, the solutions against the money laundering actions can be expected to identify the transactions of the terrorists. Then, blocking their accounts could slow down their actions if cannot stop. In many countries, the financial institutions are expected to inform compliance regulation bodies about any persons or transactions that they think suspicious. To cope with this necessity, various software packages for anti money laundering (AML) have been developed and are commercially available." In this talk, Ekrem Duman explores the factors that must be addressed in building these programs. Q&A follows the talk.. September 17, 2007. (more)

SIAI Interview Series: Barney Pell, Powerset CEO.
Dr. Barney Pell is an SIAI Advisor and co-founder and CEO of Powerset, a San Francisco company working to build a transformative consumer search engine. In this interview, Pell talks about advanced AI, progress in the AI field, Powerset, his involvement with SIAI, his robotics work at NASA Ames, the dangers of AI, the importance of foresight, and more. May 30, 2007. (more)

Soar: excerpt from Allen Newell's William James Lectures.
Allen Newell explains the Soar architecture. March 11, 1987. (more)

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman - Lecture #1a (of 20): Overview and Introduction to Lisp..
"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has been MIT's introductory pre-professional computer science subject since 1981. It emphasizes the role of computer languages as vehicles for expressing knowledge and it presents basic principles of abstraction and modularity, together with essential techniques for designing and implementing computer languages. This course has had a worldwide impact on computer science curricula over the past two decades." 1986. (more)

Symbol System: excerpt from AI: What Can it Do? Where is it Going?.
Herbert A. Simon explains the hypothesis that intelligent behavior (be it humans or computers) requires the ability to deal with symbols/patterns. March 21, 1990. (more)

The ENIAC and its makers: Eighteen-thousand vacuum tubes and a box of light bulbs.
On Valentine's Day sixty years ago, the world read the first newspaper accounts of a mysterious, new computing machine in Philadelphia. It wasn't the first computer ever made, but on that day, public awareness of modern technology took its first great post-war jump forward." Featuring Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, and ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. 1946. (more)

UK Future TV: Future Technology episode with Austin Tate.
"Austin Tate of the University of Edinburgh talks about artificial intelligence techniques and their use in emergency response centres." March 10, 2007. (more)

University Video Communications Distinguished Lecture Series: Daniel G. Bobrow - Common LISP Object Standard (CLOS).
Daniel Bobrow, Chairman of the Common LISP Object Specification Committee, characterized this lecture as "a snapshot of history in action." After discussing the history of object systems and the current state of the art, he explores the process of developing this new standard. . October 27, 1987. (more)