CS 540 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Section 1 Fall 2019

AI in the News

• Google Researchers are Learning how Machines Learn (New York Times, March 6, 2018)
• How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue (New York Times, December 31, 2017)
• DeepMind's AI became a Superhuman Chess Player (The Verge, December 6, 2017)
• Facial Recognition Database used by FBI is Out of Control, House Committee Hears (The Guardian, March 27, 2017)
• The Great A.I. Awakening (New York Times, December 14, 2016)
• Barack Obama, Neural Nets, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of the World (Wired, November 2016)
• To Beat Go Champion, Google's Program Needed a Human Army (New York Times, April 4, 2016)
• The Race is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech's Future (New York Times, March 25, 2016)
• The Promise of Artificial Intelligence Unfolds in Small Steps (New York Times, January 28, 2016)
• Google's AI Masters the Game of Go a Decade Earlier than Expected (MIT Technology Review, January 27, 2016)
• For Now, Self-Driving Cars Still Need Humans (New York Times, January 17, 2016)
• U.S. Proposes Spending $4 Billion on Self-Driving Cars (New York Times, January 14, 2016)
• Mark Zuckerberg: I'm Building an AI for my Home that's 'Kind of Like Jarvis in Iron Man' (The Verge, January 3, 2016)
• Relax, the Terminator is Far Away (New York Times, May 25, 2015)
• New Approach Trains Robots to Match Human Dexterity and Speed (New York Times, May 21, 2015)
• Nvidia Plans Leap from Audi Navigation Systems to Self-Driving Cars (Automotive News Europe, May 15, 2015)
• The Believers: The Hidden Story Behind the Code that Runs our Lives (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 23, 2015)
• Bill Gates is Worried about Artificial Intelligence too (CNET, January 28, 2015)
• How Uber's Autonomous Cars will Destroy 10 Million Jobs and Reshape the Economy by 2025 (CBS SF Bay Area, January, 27, 2015)
• Skype's Real-Time Translator Previews English and Spanish (IEEE Spectrum, December 17, 2014)
• Social media for social good: Researchers estimate air pollution from online posts (UW CS, October 27, 2014)
• How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism" (New York Times, October 27, 2014)
• Google Acquires British Artificial Intelligence Developer (New York Times, January 27, 2014)
• Google Street View uses an Insane Neural Network to ID House Numbers (Gizmodo, January 12, 2014)
• The Rapid Advance of Artificial Intelligence (October 14, 2013)
• Students Game the System, Train Computer to Play Angry Birds (UW-Madison News, September 25, 2013)
• Can you Beat this Machine at Angry Birds? (The Cap Times, September 3, 2013)
• Deep Learning Comes of Age (CACM, June 2013)
• 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)