Posts Tagged ‘Research’

Recorded Future – CIA,Google invests into future-predicting website

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

What can Recorded Future do? Lets watch:

How does it work?

Recorded Future scans Twitter accounts, blogs, and websites to find relationships, organizations, actions and incident data related to general themes.

  • Scour the web
  • Extract, rank and organize
  • Make it accessible and useful

It features the world’s first Temporal Analytics Engine (unlike a decision engine this uses a time series analysis). A new predictive analysis tool that allows you to visualize the future, past or present.

Prices and Plans:

About Recorded Future

Recorded Future is an early stage company headquartered in the Boston area. We have 15+ employees in various corners of the globe attacking a hard problem – organize the web in a radically new and useful way. The world’s 24×7 media flow constantly talk about time, whether it is reports of what’s transpired or statements of what’s expected to come. Recorded Future’s linguistics and statistics algorithms extract time-related information and through temporal reasoning helps users understand relationships between entities and events over time, to form the world’s first temporal analytics engine. Our customers include some of the most advanced financial institutions and leading government agencies in the world.

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Improving Robots Emotionally

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Scientists at the University of Hertforshire are leading the project to create robot which can develop emotions during interaction with humans. Nao, a robot, which can now develop emotions such as shrug shoulders when sad or raise eyebrows when surprised and more. But the big question is whether emotions help create any additional laws to the existing three fundamental laws of robotics? This project is run by the Adaptive Systems Research Group at University of  Hertfordshire.

The Adaptive Systems Research Group in Hertfordshire is a multidisciplinary group of faculty, students, and friends of the University of Hertfordshire who have a connection to research in Adaptive Systems and related areas. The group was founded and is co-organized by Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn and Prof. Chrystopher Nehaniv. Other core faculty members of the group include Dr. Lola Cañamero, Dr. Daniel Polani and Dr. Farshid Amirabdollahian.


[Guardian]

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AI & Home

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Microsoft Research displayed some latest AI software developed by them. The focus was on AI @ home; the software displayed used different kinds of machine learning techniques, where computer software is able to learn how to carry out tasks that are useful to people without having to be programmed to perform that exact task.

[Read Silicon]

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Watson! Dear Watson!

Monday, June 21st, 2010

For the last few years, IBM scientists have been developing the most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed by the user, and is expected to respond with a precise answer. In other words, it must do more than what search engines like Google and Bing do, which is merely point to a set of results where you might find the answer. But Watson has to give the correct answer itself. Lets look at Watson in a trivia challenge:

[ MSNBC ]

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