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

Vikramaditya Jakkula — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:32:25 +0000

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.

Improving Robots Emotionally

Vikramaditya Jakkula — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:41:42 +0000

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]

AI & Home

Vikramaditya Jakkula — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:37:12 +0000

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]

Watson! Dear Watson!

Vikramaditya Jakkula — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:06:37 +0000

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 ]

Educational Data Mining

Vikramaditya Jakkula — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:20:03 +0000

Even today Education stands on the list of grand challenges of the 21st century. There are two major areas which cover the breadth(involves reaching broader audience with common goals, and rising literacy level across the globe) and depth(effective and clear learning) of the challenges in education. Carnegie Mellon University played host to the conferences on the use of computers in education. Educational data mining is all about using data gathered from educational services or tools(includes user data or student data), and mine it to find knowledge which when applied would aid the user with better service offering(improved learning or faster efficient learning).

The Third International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2010), which was held June 11-13, and the10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2010), June 14-18 were held on carnegie mellon campus. The conferences are a clear sign that the educational data mining is emerging into a strong research area.

[Read Dr. Dobbs]

Machine Learning School 2010 Proceedings Available

Vikramaditya Jakkula — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:18:48 +0000

The machine learning school 2010 conducted in Bangalore,India appears to be a success. The proceedings are now made available.

Download:

Associative Rule Mining
Graphical Models 1
Graphical Models 2
Graphical Models 3
Gaussian Processes
ML Introduction
Privacy Preserving Mining
Support Vector Machines

Microsoft Predestination: Predicting your travel destinations!

Vikramaditya Jakkula — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:53:40 +0000

Lets watch Microsoft SVP for Microsoft Research Dr. Rick Rashid talk more about Predestination:

Future Technology Research from Intel on Display

Vikramaditya Jakkula — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:45:43 +0000

Photo by James Martin/CNET

Future Technologies Group, part of Intel Labs, are researchers who research into technology which humans could use in the future. Recently they did conduct a display of some of the ongoing research, which is more like a open house event. Some interesting next generation projects are as follows:

Highly accurate facial-recognition system
Personal energy system
Interactive Digital Aura
ClassmateAssist
Summarize (Text to Speech Software)
Augmented Image Reality

[More at CNET]

AR Drone can be flown with an iPhone

Vikramaditya Jakkula — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:33:34 +0000

Now we know iPhone can be used to fly drones. Yes, AR Drone has consumer plan. The AR Drone has four propellers, two cameras, and can be flown with an iPhone.

Watch now:

[IEEE Blog]

Sophisticated Heart Surgeries with Robotic Support

Vikramaditya Jakkula — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:22:06 +0000

Doctors have carried out a life-saving heart procedure with the help of a sophisticated robot. Cardiologists in Leicester were the first in the world to use a new robot that practically fucntions as the doctor’s right arm. The procedure involved passing a thin metal wire along the patient’s blood vessels and into the heart.If the muscle misfires electrical signals, it would raise the risk of a heart attack or stroke, eventually complicating the entire operation, but this could be made easy using the machine. The current robot system is much simpler to use than previous ones and doctors can be trained in just 15 minutes instead of several weeks.The system costs is expected to be around £350,000.

[Telegraph]