MIT News: Robotics / artificial intelligence

Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contest
Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Robots designed to toss pool-noodle trees into a river of ping-pong balls ruled over competitors focused on rescuing fuzzy toy beavers in this year's 2.007 contest, "Da (yes) MIT, or Save the Baby Beavers," held on Thursday, May 8, at MIT.
Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot star
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500
A new experimental robot from the MIT Media Lab can slant its eyebrows in anger, or raise them in surprise, and show a wide assortment of facial expressions to communicate with people in human-centric terms.
Brains informing computers, and vice versa
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500
After many years, Tomaso Poggio's two parallel lines of research--one aimed at using computers to understand how the brain works, the other at improving the abilities of computers to "think"--have begun to converge.
MIT students design graduate student development program
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500
An MIT PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science will describe a novel professional development program for graduate students and its impact at MIT at the annual meeting of the AAAS in Boston.
MIT finishes fourth in DARPA Grand Challenge
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500
MIT's automated Land Rover, packed with computers and electronic sensors, finished fourth in the DARPA Grand Challenge. The MIT vehicle, competing for the first time, was one of only six to complete the challenging 55-mile course.
MIT's 'robocar' named finalist
Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500
Team MIT has made it to the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge, a competition for cars and trucks that run without human help. The goal of the contest is to develop vehicles that can operate on their own in battle and keep humans out of harm's way.

Latest Issue of Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Adaptive dynamic probabilistic networks for distributed uncertainty processing
Shi, DongyuYou, Jinyuan
An engineering approach to sociable robots
Deniz, OscarHernandez, MarioLorenzo, JavierCastrillOn, Modesto
Arabic writer identification based on hybrid spectral-statistical measures
Al-Dmour, AymanZitar, Raed Abu

 

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ACIA - Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence - Non-profit association for the advancement of AI in Catalan society. Aims to support communication between the persons and organizations involved in AI and promote social, cultural, scientific, economic and governmental awareness.

AISB - The (British) Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour.

American Association for Artificial Intelligence - Nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines.
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Artificial Intelligence Foundation - Aims to explore, research, and develop the next generation of interactive human devices and intelligent software. The foundation also hosts International Robotics tournaments for high school students. Contact information only.
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British Computer Society Specialist Group on Knowledge-Based Systems and Applied AI - BCS SGES aims to foster capability and awareness in the development and application of Knowledge Based Systems and Artificial Intelligence, and to promote the interests of the related community.
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Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence - For the promotion of interest and activity in Artificial Intelligence.

Danish AI Society - DAIS coordinates AI research in Denmark with AI in the rest of the world. It promotes such conferences as SCAI, ECCAI,IJCAI and informs its members of AIactivities in a monthly electronic newsletter (about 200 pages most in english).

European Coordinating Committee for AI - Promotes the study, research, and publication of AI work in Europe. News, members, charter, directory, activities, conference, and history.
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Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society - Links to events, list of publications, information about the society.

International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - Schedule of meetings, membership information, and lists of related publications.
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Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence - Online transactions, mailing-list and contact information. English/Japanese.
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The Association for Computational Linguistics - The ACL is the international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation.
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