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Internet search engines and artificial intelligence
A couple of days ago, I finished reading John Battelle’s The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. The book is about the rise and fall of online...
View ArticleA.I. work by Daphne Koller wins inaugural ACM-Infosys award
Professor Daphne Koller at the University of Stanford has won the first-ever ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences. The $150,000 prize was given to the 39-year-old for her work in...
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ESA’s MEXAR2 AI improves our exploration of Mars
Scientists at the European Space Agency are relishing in the commendations received over their new smart software being used to send back valuable data from the red planet. Back in January 2005 the...
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Meet the first synthetic person of Second Life
The digital world of Second Life is among one of the most popular internet destinations. People from around the world can construct an avatar of whatever person they want, be they male, female or...
View ArticleVirsona lets you talk to anyone
Imagine being able to talk to any historical figure from history from sitting at your keyboard. Albert Einstein, Cleopatra, Adolf Hitler, Jesus Christ, even Babe Ruth if you so wanted, could be chatted...
View ArticleWolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine
Stephen Wolfram announced a couple of days ago in a blog post that he and his team will soon unveil a new online computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha that will be able to answer...
View ArticleIBM 7094 sings Daisy Bell
Artificial Intelligence has come a long way in the last 50 years. But there is still something creepy and yet intoxicating about the IBM 7094 singing Harry Dacre’s 1892 classic Daisy Bell. In 1961, the...
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Intel’s 48-Core Single-Chip Cloud Computer
Intel announced yesterday a new 48-core single chip computer that is low power and promises huge speed increases for applications that can take full advantage of parallel computing. Applications in...
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First ever chess playing computer program
Programming computers to play games has been central to Artificial Intelligence research since its early days back in the fifties. By now, most of us have heard of IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer...
View Article“Chess Terminator” plays blitz chess with Vladimir Kramnik
Fans of the game of chess surely remember former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, who held the title back in 2006, but the most recent news regarding the Russian gross-master comes from the world of...
View ArticleAI weekly news roundup (Jan 8-14, 2017)
The second week of January is now behind us, so here is a brief look at some AI related stories as we are heading into the second half of the new year’s first month. Microsoft acquired Canadian deep...
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