Interesting AI Demos and Projects

Agents

• Boids
  Building autonomous agents to simulate group motion and obstacle avoidance such as activities of bird flocks and schools of fish.

• Excalibur
  This project develops a generic architecture for a group of agents to pursue their given goals, adapt their behavior to new environments, and communicate and perform coordinated group actions.

• Intelligent Agents work at IBM

• Interactive Video Environment (MIT)
  The Interactive Video Environment (IVE) is an experimental "testbed" to explore how Computer Vision and Computer Agents technologies can be used to solve problems of human interface and human interaction over networks. The goal of the IVE project is to develop smart cooperative work/play systems that function robustly despite wide variation in network and environmental conditions.

• Internet Softbots (U. Washington)
  Building autonomous agents that interact with real-world software environments such as operating systems or databases is a pragmatically convenient yet intellectually challenging AI problem. We are utilizing planning and machine-learning technology to develop an Internet softbot (software robot), a customizable and (moderately) intelligent assistant for Internet access. The softbot accepts goals in a high-level language, generates and executes plans to achieve these goals, and learns from its experience.

• Guardian Angel (MIT)
  The project uses guardian angels(software agents) to create health information systems centered on the patients rather than solely for the convenience of the doctors.

• Microsoft Agent

• Intelligent Web Apps

  • Ahoy! finder of people's homepages on the web
  • mySimon personalized shopping agent
  • Smart Computing Smart shopping, finance and chatter agents on the web
  • DealTime personal shopping assistant for product availability and price information
  • Letizia web browsing assistant
  • Metacrawler meta-search engine
  • AliceBot A winner of an AI chatterbot contest
  • ReferralWeb locates experts on specific topics
  • WiseWire personalized recommendations of web documents
  • Gender Test guesses your gender using some kind of kNN classifier

Artificial Life

• Alife Online Publications,software, and events of Alife research
  
• Creature Labs
  
• Using AI to research ecosystems (Biota)
  

Computer Vision

• Image Processing Functions Web FX
• Computers Watching Football (MIT)
• Face Recognition
  • Face Recognition (CMU)
  • FaceDetection (University of Illinoise)
  • FaceDetection (Carnegie Mellon)
• Image Databases: IBM, Kodak.
• Image Guided Surgery (MIT)
• Miscellaneous Computer Vision Demos
• Telepresence (North Carolina, Penn, CMU)
• Virtualized Reality (CMU)

Expert Systems

• Electronic Steering and control system (Mercedes)
  
• Easy Diagnosis medical diagnosis system
• Screening applications
• Shyster: a pragmatic legal expert system(Australian National University)
  

Game Design and Playing

• AI programming in designing video games
• Chinook Checkers Player (Alberta)
• Deep Blue Chess Player (IBM)
• Pousse (MIT)
• 8-Puzzle

Human-Computer Interaction

• Intelligent Room (MIT)
  Hal is a highly interactive environment that uses embedded computation to observe and participate in the normal, everyday events occurring in the world around it. It has cameras for eyes, microphones for ears, and uses a variety of computer vision, speech and gesture recognition systems to allow people to interact naturally with it.

Machine Learning

• Common Lisp Hypermedia Server(MIT)
  This server is created with Lisp. It has inductive learning ability and uses natural language processing techniques to answer questions.

• NeuroOn-Line Producta complete graphical, object-oriented software tool kit for building neural network applications and applying them to dynamic environments.
  

• Whale Identification using a Decision Tree

• WebWatcher (CMU)

Natural Language Processing

• Alta Vista's Babel Fish
  a transaltion program

• KPML
  The Komet-Penman Multilingual development environment is a system for developing and maintaining large-scale sets of multilingual systemic-functional linguistic descriptions.

• MegaHAL (won second place in 1998 Loebner Contest)
  The program tries to carry on human-like conversation with users.

• Pertinence Text summarization

• START Natural Language Question Answering (MIT)
  Ask English questions about the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to a natural language system called START . See, for example, snapshots of asking a question , and viewing the answer .

Robotics

• Autonomous Undersea Systems

• The Cog Shop(MIT)
  The Cog Shop builds, maintains, and experiments with Cog, a humanoid robot.

• Dante II Walking Robot (CMU)
  The CMU Field Robotics Center (FRC) developed Dante II, a tethered walking robot, which explored the Mt. Spurr (Aleutian Range, Alaska) volcano in July 1994. The use of robotic explorers, such as Dante II, opens a new era in field techniques by enabling scientists to remotely conduct research and exploration.

• Demonstration of two robot motion planning algorithms(University of Minisota)

• Kismet: A Robot for Social Interactions with Humans(MIT)
  

• Minerva, The Robotic Tour Guide (CMU and University of Bonn)
  Minerva is an intelligent mobile robot tour-guide that moves daily through crowds at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. You can know more about it from its homepage at CMU.
  

• Miscellaneous Robot Demos

• Robot Tele-operation (USC)
  The MERCURY PROJECT allows users to tele-operate a robot arm moving over a terrain filled with buried artifacts. A CCD camera and pneumatic nozzle mounted on the robot allow users to select viewpoints and to direct short bursts of compressed air into the terrain. Thus users can "excavate" regions within the sand by positioning the arm, delivering a burst of air, and viewing the newly cleared region.

• Tracking and Grasping Moving Objects (Columbia)
  Coordination between an organism's sensing modalities and motor control system is a hallmark of intelligent behavior, and we are pursuing the goal of building an integrated sensing and actuation system that can operate in dynamic as opposed to static environments. The system we are building is a multi-sensor system that integrates work in real-time vision, robotic arm control and stable grasping of objects. Our first attempts at this have resulted in a system that can track and stably grasp a moving model train in real-time.

• Vision-based Robotics using estimation(Northwestern AI Research Lab)
  

Speech

• Apple's English speech recognizer and speech synthesizer(English and Spanish)
• Bell Lab's Text-to-Speech synthesis software
• Wave search (Compaq)
• Diplomat (CMU) speech-to-speech translation system
• Dragon Naturally Speaking products(Dragon Systems, Inc.)
  
• Janus: spontaneous translation of spoken languages (CMU)
  
• Speech translation projects (LTI)
  
• Laureate text-to-speech synthesis system (British Telecom)
• PEGASUS speech understanding systems is used in American Airlines's EAASY SABRE reservation system
• Project LISTEN (CMU)
• Speech Wear Project (CMU)
• ViaVoice (IBM)

Theorem Proving

• EQP theorem prover proved a long-standing mathematical conjecture about algebra, called the Robbins Problem

Miscellaneous AI-aided applications

• ARTIST ARTIST (Artificial Intelligence-aided Synthesis Tool) is an AI-aide sound design system
• Decison Theory and Adaptive Systems (Microsoft)

Other Lists

• AAAI's Show Time list