Michio Kaku on Artificial Intelligence
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Greg Laden is a blogger, writer and independent scholar who occassionally teaches. He has a PhD from Harvard in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, as well as a Masters Degree in the same subjects. He is a biological anthropologist, but for many years before going to graduate school to study human evolution, he did archaeology in North America. He thinks of himself as a biologist who focuses on humans (past and present) and who uses archaeology as one of the tools of the trade. Greg blogs regularly on ScienceBlogs at http://www.scienceblogs.com/gregladen/.
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Dr. Joseph J. Salvo attended Phillips Andover Academy, received his A.B. degree from Harvard University and his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University. Dr. Salvo joined the GE Global Research Center in 1988. His early work focused on the development of genetically modified bacteria and fungus, for the production of novel high performance polymers. In the mid 1990's he turned his group's efforts towards developing large-scale internet-based sensing arrays to manage and oversee
business systems. Most recently, he and his team have developed a number of complex decision engines that deliver customer value through system transparency and knowledge-based computational algorithms. Commercial business implementations of his work are currently active in Europe, and Asia as well as North and South America.
Dr. Peter Tu received his undergraduate degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his doctorate from Oxford University England.
In 1997, he joined the Visualization and Computer Vision Group at the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY. He has developed algorithms for the FBI Automatic Fingerprint Identification System. He is the principle investigator for the ReFace program, which has the goal of automatically computing the appearance of a person’s face from skeletal remains. Dr. Tu has also developed a number of algorithms for the precise measurement of specular and high curvature objects. His current focus is the development of intelligent video algorithms for surveillance applications.
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November 22, 2009
Bacteria trained to detect mines
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Not all intelligence is brainy.
Land mines are still one of most dangerous hazards affecting many countries, especially developing ones, with almost 20,000 new casualties every year. Since their location is unknown, previous techniques of mine-detecting have proven to be slow, costly and mostly ineffective. This special brand of glowing bacteria, however, might be a huge step forward in fighting the problem and once again shows the great potential of technology.Read about it at Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
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November 21, 2009
From nature, robots
Category: robots
Mechanical engineer Sangbae Kim looks to animals to inspire his robot designs..
Press release from MIT:
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"Will NexGen AI Have Unintended Consequences?"
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Commentary from the Daily Galaxy:
...A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that can kill autonomously....Check out this commentary
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November 20, 2009
And now we turn to the topic of Artificial Intelligence ...
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence as a term implies that there is a "natural" intelligence we wish to replicate in the lab and then engineer in any one of several practical contexts. There is nothing in the term that implies that "intelligence" be human, but the implication is clear that such a thing as "intelligence" exists and that we have some clue as to what it is.
But it might not, and we don't.
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Is My Robot Happy To See Me?
Category: Artificial Intelligence
ScienceDaily (2009-10-19) -- Scientists tested our ability to interpret a robot's "emotion" by reading its expression to see if there were any differences between the ages. They found that older adults showed some unexpected differences in the way they read a robot's face from the way younger adults performed.
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November 19, 2009
IBM takes moves toward thinking machines
Category: Artificial Intelligence
But not human thinking machines ...
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Listen, Watch, Read: Computers Search for Meaning
Category: Artificial Intelligence
ScienceDaily (2009-11-16) -- Researchers have created the first integrated semantic search platform that integrates text, video and audio. The system can 'watch' films, 'listen' to audio and 'read' text to find relevant responses to semantic search terms. At last, computers are able to look for meaning in our multimedia searches.
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November 18, 2009
Intelligent System To Help Autistic Children Recognize Emotions
Category: Artificial Intelligence
ScienceDaily (2009-10-19) -- Computer scientists are working on the development of an efficient and intelligent facial expression recognition system. The system is capable of locating the face region using derivative-based filtering and recognizing facial expressions using boosting classifier. The portable device is being developed to help autistic children understand the emotions of surrounding people.
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