MIT News: Robotics / artificial intelligence

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?
Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500
An MIT graduate class, aimed at figuring out whether MIT could, or should, mount an entry into the $20-million Google Lunar X-Prize competition announced last fall, has arrived at the bottom line: Yes, we can (technically)!
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.

Latest Issue of Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Adaptive dynamic probabilistic networks for distributed uncertainty processing
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An engineering approach to sociable robots
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Arabic writer identification based on hybrid spectral-statistical measures
Al-Dmour, AymanZitar, Raed Abu

 

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404 Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium - 2006, June 6, Quebec City, Canada. Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium in conjunction with the 19th Canadian AI. Submission deadline : 1 January 2006.
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404 Emerging Technologies for Web-based Communities (ETWBC) - 2006, February 25, Mondragon University, Spain. For the advancement of current Web-based communities.
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Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) - 2006, October 2-6, Poderbrady, Czech Republic. Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks. Submission deadline 12 April 2006.
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Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) - 2006, May 11-13, Melbourne Beach, Florida. 19th conference covering general AI with special tracks in case-based reasoning, autonomous agents, machine learning and neural networks. Submission deadline: 21 November 2005.

International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA) - 2007. April 11-14. Poland, Warsaw.

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Technology (ICAIET) - 2006, November 22-24, Malaysia, Sabah.

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) - 2006, June 25-29, Pittsburgh, Penn, US. A premier machine learning conference. Submission date: 30 January 2006.

International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science (DEON) - 2006 July 12-14, Utrecht, Netherlands. The workshop supports research linking the formal-logical study of normative concepts with computer science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, organization theory and law.
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International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR) - 2006, July 10-12, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Understanding human reasoning about physical systems for supplementing conventional modeling, analysis, diagnosis, and control techniques.

Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) - 2006, December 4-9, Vancouver, Canada. Neural computation, learning theory, algorithms and architectures, neuroscience, vision, speech, control and diverse applications.

Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) - 2006 October 25-27, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. To assemble researchers from the Nordic countries, with some additional international participation.
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Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) - 2006, July 13-16, Cambridge, MA, US. An international forum for presenting new results on the use of principled methods for reasoning under uncertainty within intelligent systems. Submission deadline: 9 March 2006.