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CHECKMATE The man who solved checkers is setting his sights on the Faculty of Science
Artificial intelligence has been the focus of Jonathan Schaeffers research during his past 28 years at the University of Alberta, but his new role as Dean of Science will rely solely on his own intelligence.
The Board of Governors appointed Schaeffer to the position last week, which will commence July 1 for a five-year term.
Schaeffer succeeds Gregory Taylor, who had held the position since 2003. The incoming dean has been heavily involved in the Department of Computing Science, where he has served as both professor and chair of the department. For the past four years, he has also held the positions of Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Information Technology) at the U of A.
Schaeffer said he developed a strong appreciation for the Faculty of Science as a whole during his term as the Chair of Computing Science in 2005. When he became a part of the annual faculty evaluation process, he was able to see more of the work being done by a variety of scientists, ranging from physicists to psychologists.
You just started reading their annual reports and went, Wow, look what this guy is doing, and My god, this guy if he does that, he could change the world, Schaeffer said.
It was all just really exciting and it made me appreciate what a fabulous faculty we have here in sciences.
His own research in the area of computer science has earned him international recognition, as well as numerous awards.
One accomplishment that broke the Guinness Book of World Records was Chinook: first computer to win a game of checkers in a human world championship.
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Internet service provider Exetel has unveiled a new customer support system that uses artificial intelligence to solve user connection and other support issues online.
The Calliope system, developed by Exetel and the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, is the result of an eight-year bid to bake intelligence into the ISP's customer management systems.
The new system was developed over the past two years at the institute, and aims to respond to simple questions that would otherwise be fielded by call centre staff.
Exetel CEO Steve Waddington told Sri Lankan media last week that by automatically answering common user issues online - often by pointing them to a centralised wiki of support information - the new system freed up support engineers' time and reduced the company's support costs.
Waddington drew parallels between the system and the 'Siri' feature on Apple iPhones, which translated user requests in natural language - as opposed to set commands - to deliver answers from a variety of sources.
"Siri is exactly the sort of intelligent agent that Calliope is on a commercial basis. You could say Siri is to Calliope what a spreadsheet is to Oracle database," he said.
Despite the use of natural language, the Calliope system requires users to enter short, clear sentences with readily recognisable phrases such as "drop outs", "no sync" or product names in order to receive support.
The AI system did not replace the call centre for complex user support issues, Waddington said, but removes the need for call centre staff to deal with simple questions often repeated through users.
"Eight years ago we conceived of Calliope as a method to make us a more efficient company, and make the information our customers wanted more available to them," he said.
"Our own development stalled in its second year. We had simply reached the limit of the resources a small company like us could commit to such a project. And the concept languished for a few years."
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Junior faculty summer grants awarded to two University of Houston-Victoria assistant professors will be used to study artificial intelligence and publishing.
Hongyu Guo, an assistant professor of computer science, and Kyle Schlesinger, co-director of the Master of Science in publishing program and an assistant professor of English and communication design, each received a $10,000 research award from the university.
Guo will continue his research in swarm intelligence, while Schlesinger will work on essays about the history and future of publishing. Both could have books out about the subjects in the near future.
The grants have been awarded each of the past four summers. A committee of tenured UHV professors evaluates and then recommends who receives the awards.
"These grants were created to encourage faculty research and give our junior faculty a jump-start in their research agendas," said Jeffrey Cass, UHV provost and vice president for academic affairs. "Dr. Guo and Dr. Schlesinger presented compelling research plans, and we are pleased to assist them with their efforts."
Guo's research involves an emerging subfield of artificial intelligence inspired by the swarming behaviors of social animals.
"Ants, bees and gnats often swarm together," he said. "As individuals, they are simple. But as a group, the collective intelligence of the system of individual agents makes it possible to accomplish high-complexity tasks. It's the same principle here."
Guo said swarm intelligence is a fairly new field but has profound applications in nanotechnology, computer networks, digital gaming, space science, military and business operations.
"There's relatively little research done so far on the topic, and there are many open questions," he said.
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This isn't your typical artificial intelligence robot, but scientists at the University of Hawaii have created bubble "robots" that can be directed using lasers. They hope to use the bubble robots to build micro-structures. And once the bubble bots are no longer of use, they can be popped.
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Takeaway: Mankind has long been fascinated by the idea of intelligent machines, but in the information age the sci-fi dream of creating a human-like AI appears increasingly anachronistic.
The idea of creating a sentient machine has fascinated mankind for centuries. And while sci-fi offers artificial intelligences that rival our own, the fiction bears little resemblance to real world AI.
AI is all around us, not as a synthetic overlord, but as specialised software that help fly planes and run factory production lines. For many, the idea of creating thinking machines has become a distant dream.
However, not everyone has given up on the idea of creating a machine that can think like a man. Inventor Hugh Loebner is at the forefront of the hunt: each year for more than two decades Loebner has run a competition based on the Turing Test, the game devised by British mathematician and father of computing Alan Turing in 1950 to identify a thinking machine.
In the Loebner Prize competition, software known as chatbots conduct instant messenger or verbal conversations with human judges, attempting to fool them into believing they are a real person.
Any bot that fools half the judges can win up to $100,000 for its creator, and each year there is a $2,000 prize for bot deemed to be most human-like.
Turing predicted that a machine able to fool people into thinking it was human in one third of conversations would exist by 2000.
And yet so far the performance of the chatbots has been underwhelming: after 22 years of contests no bot has come close to fooling half of the judges into thinking it is human. Bots make convincing humans during short chats, but their credibility breaks down in a prolonged conversation.
Even Loebner, for all of the time and effort he has invested, says he has little passion for event, and continues to run it largely out of a sense of obligation.
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COALVILLE, England, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Aerial survey company Bluesky has launched a fast response aerial survey service using state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones. The technology, originally developed by the military, includes Artificial Intelligence (AI) guided autopilot, high resolution integrated camera and environmentally friendly rechargeable propulsion system. Autonomous take-off and landing ensures the system is easy to use and with a wingspan of less than a metre it can be easily transported without the need for complex assembly.
"Using UAV's we can respond quickly to demands to collect site specific images and data in a very cost effective way," commented James Eddy, Technical Director at Leicestershire based Bluesky. "The integrated camera captures high resolution photogrammetric images that can be used to create map accurate aerial survey data including height models. The system is compact and lightweight making it easy to store and transport and can be launched by hand from virtually any location. Flight planning software and an Artificial Intelligence guided autopilot make it easy to control and the system will gently and safely return to the ground with a single touch of a button."
Potential applications of Bluesky's UAV solution include open cast mines or quarries or even landfill sites where large volumes of material are extracted or moved on a regular basis. The geographically accurate imagery would provide a record of activity at a given point in time and the highly detailed height models could be used to measure stockpiles, cut and fill volumes and for facilities management and safety monitoring.
Large scale construction sites can also be surveyed, at regular intervals or predetermined points in time, providing data for project management, reporting and funding. The height data can be used for line of site calculations to ensure compliance with planning applications or cut and fill calculations for project invoicing and for the creation of realistic 3D images for marketing or KPI reporting.
With an option of additional sensors mounted on the UAV Bluesky is also exploring agricultural applications monitoring crop growth or irrigation and identifying locations for higher value crops or high yield areas. Additional applications include golf courses where the map accurate images and height models could be used to create yardage books, feed digital caddy systems and used to develop stroke manager solutions.
Website: http://www.bluesky-world.com
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14:37 GMT, May 21, 2012 NORFOLK, VA. | At the National UASI Homeland Security Conference, booth #310, MASA Group, a leading developer of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Modeling & Simulation (M&S) software for the defense, homeland security, emergency management, serious games and games-related markets, is unveiling version 5.0 of MASA SWORD, the company's state-of-the-art modeling and simulation solution. MASA will demonstrate SWORD and its capability to help Homeland Security and Public Safety professionals improve their training efficiency and effectiveness, while reducing costs.
MASA will also showcase PIVTS (Plans Independently Verified Through Simulation), a recently-launched service offering designed to help emergency management professionals easily assess their disaster preparedness plans, using SWORD technology. PIVTS can help emergency management professionals determine the key elements of their plan and develop a timeline for the simulation, thereby increasing their decision-making level of confidence.
"For the last 10 years, Homeland Security and Emergency Management Departments across the country have spent millions of dollars preparing, exercising and updating plans to help them better respond to emergency situations. With on-going reductions in funding, MASA provides public safety managers with new cost-effective ways to sustain their programs, while ensuring that their emergency and crisis preparedness plans and personnel are capable of responding to an ever-widening array of potential scenarios, explains Juan-Pablo Torres, MASAs President and CEO.
At MASA, we believe that reduced resources should not mean diminished preparedness. The latest version of SWORD includes a host a new features with powerful, cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology designed to public safety professionals increase their departments' preparedness, while keeping costs affordable. Moreover, MASA now has certified AGWA grant writers on staff to help potential users apply for Federal funding," adds John D. Pietrzak, Vice President, MASA Group, Inc.
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REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire -05/21/12)- Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial-intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced a free webinar to be held on Wednesday, May 30th at 11 am PT. Marketers can sign up for the webinar at http://rocketfuel.com/newsroom/event/webinar-cpg-in-the-digital-age-ditch-the-funnel-embrace-the-lifecycle.
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Is the world of finance better off in the hands of artificial-intelligence software, algorithms and computer science PHDs -- or bankers and underwriters? Ask anyone at Wonga and they'll say geeks all the way. The rapidly-growing lending site run almost entirely by techie folks has just announced that it is moving into South Africa, marking its first expansion out of the U.K.. In the last few ...
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REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire -05/14/12)- Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial-intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced that Eshwar Belani, VP of Products and Business Development, will lead a MarketingProfs Pro Seminar on Thursday, May 17, at 12 pm ET/9am PT. Register for the webinar here: http://www.marketingprofs.com/marketing/online-seminars/496#ixzz1uKG9eVdq.
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REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire -05/15/12)- Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial-intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced that company President and Co-Founder Richard Frankel will join a panel at OMMA RTB to be held during Internet Week 2012 in New York.
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REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire -05/11/12)- Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced it has won the San Francisco Business Tech & Innovation Award for the Advertising and Marketing Category. Profiles of the winners will be featured in the May 11 issue of the publication.
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REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire -05/09/12)- Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial-intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced a free webinar to be held on Wednesday, May 30th at 11 am PT. Marketers can sign up for the webinar at http://rocketfuel.com/newsroom/event/webinar-cpg-in-the-digital-age-ditch-the-funnel-embrace-the-lifecycle.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Percipio Media is honored to accept an invitation to the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's (CSAIL) coveted Industry Affiliates Program (IAP).
CSAIL is the largest independent laboratory at MIT and one of the world's most important centers of information technology research. The lab and its members have played a huge role in the technology revolution of the past 50 years. Elizabeth Bruce, Director Industry Partnerships MIT CSAIL, stated, "Percipio Media is an ideal candidate for our Industry Affiliates Program. We highly respect Fred Goff and the Percipio team and we very much look forward to successful research collaborations and partnerships with them."
Percipio leverages machine-learning techniques in fields of asset management and Internet commerce. Percipio Media is emerging as one of the fastest growing companies in Boston and has single handedly grown a community in the career and education space of over 15 million members in the last 2 years. "We are thrilled and honored to become a partner of CSAIL and look forward to actively supporting what is clearly one of the greatest institutions of higher learning in the world," said Frederick Goff, CEO of Percipio Media, LLC. "Our data science team has for years been developing proprietary machine learning techniques to distill value in what is now termed 'big data' space; as such, collaborations with MIT faculty, students and researchers in cutting edge computer science techniques is a natural and exciting fit."
CSAIL IAP extends its company members access to work in partnership with MIT's vast resources. Faculty, current research and most importantly, its students and their ideas are accessible through IAP membership. All members of CSAIL and IAP are working in unison to shape the future of information technology.
To learn more about Percipio Media LLC log on to: http://www.percipiomedia.com/, fill out the contact form and find out how their data-driven approach to online media can help grow your business. For more information about the CSAIL and its Industry Affiliates Program go to: http://www.csail.mit.edu/.
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MANILA, Philippines - Two Filipino software engineers have successfully completed and passed with flying colors the Artificial Intelligence (AI) course taught by former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun and Google research director Peter Norvig.
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