CS 540 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Section 1 Spring 2013

AI in the News

• The Robot Will See You Now (The Atlantic Magazine, March 2013)
• Drivers with Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car (New York Times, January 12, 2013)
• IBM's Watson Memorized the Entire 'Urban Dictionary,' then his Overlords had to Delete it (The Atlantic, January 10, 2013)
• Specialist Knowledge is Useless and Unhelpful (New Scientist, December 8, 2012)
• Collision in the Making between Self-Driving Cars and How the World Works (New York Times, January 23, 2012)
• Google's Lab of Wildest Dreams (New York Times, November 13, 2011)
• Stanford Team Trains Computer to Evaluate Breast Cancer (Stanford Medical School, November 9, 2011)
• How Google's Self-Driving Car Works (IEEE Spectrum, October 18, 2011)
• Google lobbies Nevada to allow self-driving cars (New York Times, May 10, 2011)
• IBM Computer taking on 'Jeopardy!' Champs for $1M (Yahoo News, January 13, 2011)
• The AI Revolution is On (Wired Magazine, December 27, 2010)
• With Kinect, Microsoft aims for a Game Changer (New York Times, October 23, 2010)
• Computer Beats Human at Japanese Chess for First Time (NewScientist, October 12, 2010)
• Guided by Computers and Sensors, a Smooth Ride at 60 Miles per Hour (New York Times, October 9, 2010)
• Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic (New York Times, October 9, 2010)
• Aiming to Learn as We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself (New York Times, October 4, 2010)
• Autonomous Vehicle Driving from Italy to China (IEEE Spectrum, September 21, 2010)
• Goggles does Not do Face Recognition (IEEE Spectrum, August 24, 2010)
• Driverless Vehicles Go Manual in Moscow (Yahoo News, August 24, 2010)
• Archive of articles on AI published by the New York Times
• The First Church of Robotics (New York Times, August 9, 2010)
• Lip-Reading BCS Computer Kills Officials Who Want to Shut it Down (The Onion, July 30, 2010)
• New Robot Capable of Unhealthily Repressing Emotion (The Onion, July 30, 2010)
• Students, Meet your new Teacher, Mr. Robot (New York Times, July 10, 2010)
• Facebook to Recognize Faces, Help Tag Photos (CNN, July 2, 2010)
• MIT Researchers create super efficient 'Origami' solar panels (Mother Nature Network, April 8, 2010)
• Computers Turn Flat Photos into 3-D Buildings (New York Times, February 22, 2010)
• Rethinking Artificial Intelligence (MIT News, December 7, 2009)
• Optimism as Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunite (New York Times, December 7, 2009)
• A Turing Test and Cash Prize for Human-Like Video Game Bots (PopSci.com, September 10, 2009)
• Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts (New York Times, August 23, 2009)
• Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork (New York Times, July 27, 2009) (see also story in KDnuggets )
• Forbes Magazine Special Issue on AI (June 22, 2009)
• IBM Developing Computing System to Challenge Humans on America's Favorite Quiz Show, Jeopardy! (IBM press release, April 27, 2009)
• Bots Get Smarter (IEEE Spectrum Magazine, December 2008)
• If You Liked This, You're Sure to Love That (New York Times, November 23, 2008)
• Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone) (New York Times, November 14, 2008)
• 'Autonomous' Helicopters Teach Themselves To Fly (ScienceDaily, September 3, 2008)
• Cracking Go (IEEE Spectrum Magazine, October 2007)
• Computer Checkers Program is Invincible (New York Times, July 20, 2007)
• DARPA Urban Challenge
• Who Goes There? (IEEE The Institute, June 2007)
• New Model Army Soldier Rolls Closer to Battle (New York Times, February 16, 2005)
• Robo-Cars Make Cruise Control So Last Century (New York Times, April 4, 2004)
• Scientists Abandon AI Project after seeing 'The Matrix' (The Onion, January 21, 2004)