Siri Named One of Ten Best Emerging Technologies - 2009-04-01
Adam Cheyer is leading the design of powerful software that acts as a personal aide.
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=tr10&id=22117
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Neuropod (Podcast): AI for the Office w/ Ray Perrault, discussing the CALO project - 2009-02-01
This podcast includes Ray Perrault, director of SRI’s Artificial Intelligence Center, discussing the CALO project (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes).
http://www.nature.com/neurosci/neuropod/index.html
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CALO in the NYT: A Software Secretary That Takes Charge - 2008-12-13
Thomas D. Garvey, an artificial-intelligence researcher at SRI, said CALO passed an important milestone last week when it was used in a United States Army test of a command and control system at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/business/14stream.html?_r=1
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Engelbart and the dawn of interacting computing - 2008-12-09
On December 9, 2008 (1 - 5:50 pm) at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium, SRI International will present a commemorative 40th anniversary of this historic event. Join us to hear original participants recount what led up to the 1968 demo, the drama of the demonstration itself, and its impact—which no one could have imagined at the time. Learn about Doug Engelbart's vision to use computing to augment society's collective intellect and ability to solve the complex issues of our time.
http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html
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SRI’s Karto Navigation - Finalist for Robotics Development Innovator Awards - 2008-10-03
SRI’s Karto Navigation SDK is listed as a finalist for the “First Annual Robotics Development Innovator Awards.” The awards recognize products and companies that contributed "significantly to the personal, service and mobile robotics industry over the previous 12 months.
http://www.cepro.com/article/robotics_trends_names_finalists_for_development_innovator_awards/
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IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award! - 2008-04-30
The paper "Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning," published in Computational Intelligence 4(4):349, 1988, has been voted a joint winner of the 2008 International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) influential paper award. Authors are Michael Bratman, Stanford University; David Israel, Program Director in SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC); and Martha Pollack, formerly with the AIC and now at the University of Michigan.
http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/IFAAMAS2008InfluenciaPaperAward.html
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AI and Special Ops Technology: EOD Tools - 2008-03-19
SRI International, an R&D organization based in Menlo Park, Calif., has been doing research and developing team-based systems in which large collections of robots work together on tasks. “One of these involves developing a framework for the coordination of one-hundred or more ground robots to search for suspicious objects and to do it in way that the collective behavior is greater than sum of its parts,” said Charlie Ortiz, program director in robotics in SRI’s artificial intelligence laboratory.
Robotic actors in such a scenario require interoperability in the form of a common communications language, Ortiz emphasized. “Agents must be able to share information valuable to the mission if it is to succeed,” he said.
Jointness, for Ortiz, is important when the separate services consider resource sharing. “If the services each have pools of robotic resources, they probably won’t be happy with them if they are working completely independently,” he said. “If they want to share resources, then you need to grapple with the notion of how they are to work together. If the Army needs 10 extra robots and the Marines can spare them, there should be some way to get help by borrowing.” But such a scenario is unlikely to succeed unless the two services have joint requirements and interoperable systems.
http://www.special-operations-technology.com/article.cfm?DocID=2385
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Karto SDK in now available for public beta - 2008-01-10
SRI International has released the robotic software development kit (SDK) in beta test. The Karto SDK is now available for download for Windows MSRS, Linux and Mac OS X.
http://www.kartorobotics.com
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SRI’s CALO Project Tackles AI - 2007-12-05
While it’s not the artificial intelligence made popular by science-fiction writers like Dick and Asimov, CALO looks to be genuinely helpful to its targeted end-users, government agencies and possibly business. The PAL project is aimed at military use, but future packages or derivatives of CALO could be very helpful to business professionals that are constantly on the move by helping them schedule meetings and prioritize information. Read more!
http://www.dailytech.com/SRIs+CALO+Project+Tackles+Artificial+Intelligence/article9860.htm
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Software that Learns from Users - 2007-11-30
A massive AI project called CALO could revolutionize machine learning. Read what Technology Review (published by MIT) said about
CALO.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19782/?a=f
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