Archive for the ‘Artificial intelligence’ Category
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
NYTimes: I.B.M.’s Supercomputer Challenges ‘Jeopardy!’ Champions – NYTimes.com
IBM is building a massive question answering A.I., named “Watson”, that is going to play on Jeopardy in the fall.
Tags: ibm, jeopardy, watson
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Movie of a load-bearing dog-like robot that can’t be kicked over, that can walk in the woods up a hill, sometimes recover from slipping on ice, walk over a pile of concrete blocks, and run.
http://www.bostondynamics.com/dist/BigDog.wmv
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Tags: bigdog
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
http://mloss.org/software/
In addition to an index of over 200 open source machine learning software projects, the “about” section notes that there is an open source tools track of the journal JMLR, and that there are MLOSS workshops sometimes at NIPS and ICML.
Tags: machine learning, ml, open source, tool
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
You can help with protein folding research!
http://fold.it/
According to the website, currently they are collecting data from the game to see if humans can actually contribute anything beyond what the computers can already do.
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
A great essay by Gerald Sussman, “Robust Systems”. In the first half or so (my favorite part) he describes architectural principals of biological systems that contribute to robustness. In the second half, he gives proposals for making computers more robust.
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
The journal, Frontiers in Neuroscience, edited by Idan Segev, has made it Volume 3, issue 1. Launching last year at the Society for Neuroscience conference, its probably the newest Neuroscience-related journal.
I’m a fan of it because it is an open-access journal featuring a “tiered system” and more. From their website:
The Frontiers Journal Series is not just another journal. It is a new approach to scientific publishing. As service to scientists, it is driven by researchers for researchers but it also serves the interests of the general public. Frontiers disseminates research in a tiered system that begins with original articles submitted to Specialty Journals. It evaluates research truly democratically and objectively based on the reading activity of the scientific communities and the public. And it drives the most outstanding and relevant research up to the next tier journals, the Field Journals.
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Saturday, July 4th, 2009
iRobot looking robots talking to you, for real? Worth watching the video to see the exciting things coming out of the Personal Robotics Group recently.
From the page:
We are developing a team of 4 small mobile humanoid robots that possess a novel combination of mobility, moderate dexterity, and human-centric communication and interaction abilities. [...] The purpose of this platform is to support research and education goals in human-robot interaction, teaming, and social learning. In particular, the small footprint of the robot (roughly the size of a 3 year old child) allows multiple robots to operate safely within a typical laboratory floor space.
Neat stuff!
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

NYtimes article about a robot startup.
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