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Ibm's Watson Becomes Big Man on Campus With Jeopardy Win
Jeopardy champion Watson is making IBM as sexy to work for as Apple, Google or Facebook.
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It's a Bird! It's a Spy! It's Both
A pocket-size drone dubbed the Nano Hummingbird for the way it flaps its tiny robotic wings has been developed for the Pentagon by a Monrovia company as a mini...
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A World Wide Web that Talks
Some 10,000 people worldwide use a version of the Web like no other: it is operated by voice over the telephone. Called the "Spoken Web," it is the result of...
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2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I've Got a Secret. He was...
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On 'jeopardy,' Watson's a Natural
In the end, the humans on "Jeopardy!" surrendered meekly.
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Progress in Artificial Intelligence Brings Wonders and Fears
At the dawn of the modern computer era, two Pentagon-financed laboratories bracketed Stanford University. At one laboratory, a small group of scientists and engineers...
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Better Than Human? What's Next for Jeopardy! Computer
A medical robot; a Google-killer; a financial advisor; a tool for trawling legal documents; an aide for the intelligence services. These are just some of the...
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For Watson Technology, What Happens After 'jeopardy!'?
Wouldn't it be nice to have your very own supercomputer in your pocket?
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Behind-the-Scenes with Ibm's 'jeopardy!' Computer, Watson
His name is Watson. He's bad with puns. Great at math. And, next week, he will compete on the game show "Jeopardy!" against real, live, breathing, thinking humans...
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Mind vs. Machine
In the race to build computers that can think like humans, the proving ground is the Turing Test—an annual battle between the world’s most advanced artificial...
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What Is Artificial Intelligence?
In the category "What Do You Know?," for $1 million: This four-year-old upstart the size of a small R.V. has digested 200 million pages of data about everything...
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I, Algorithm: A New Dawn For Artificial Intelligence
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing a revival, spurred by probabilistic programming that merges classic AI's logical principles with the power...
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Robots Get Ready For Mass Markets
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's Laboratory of Intelligent Systems and a group of laboratories are collaborating to launch the National Center of Competence...
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Information Theory After Shannon
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'
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Researchers Build Flying Robotic 'tree Helicopter'
University of Maryland researchers have developed a robotic flying device based on samaras — single-winged seeds that are released by trees. The researchers built...
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Rise of the Robot Astronomers
Mount Palomar Observatory's Palomar Transient Factory uses AI to locate variable stars, or transients. "Our grand goal is to remove astronomers from the real-time...
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The Human Touch, in Robots
Researchers at the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing are developing robots that can respond directly to human speech.
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For Robust Robots, Let Them Be Babies First
A University of Vermont scientist has created robots that change their body forms while learning how to walk, like tadpoles becoming frogs. These evolving robots...
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Robotic Ghost Knifefish Is Born
Northwestern University researchers have developed GhostBot, a robotic fish that can instantly change directions using a ribbon-like fin, potentially revolutionizing...
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