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• A panel discussion about Artificial Intelligence.
  The Charlie Rose Show television broadcast: A panel discussion about the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence with Rodney Brooks of MIT, Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research and Ron Brachman of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. December 21, 2004. (more)
• Alex (Sandy) Pentland, director of the Human Dynamics Group at MIT, describes Reality Mining.
  "Alex (Sandy) Pentland, director of the Human Dynamics Group at MIT, describes a future in which cell phones log data about their owners' behavior. He reasons that this data can be used to strengthen social networks, generate recommendations, help track diseases, and monitor personal health." 2008?. (more)
• Nova scienceNOW Profile: Cynthia Breazeal.
  Nova scienceNOW broadcast segment about "a daring engineer designs robots to communicate and interact the way people do." "Thinking outside the box of traditional engineering, Breazeal designs these robots with theories of child development and parent-child interactions in mind, equipping her creations with an ability to learn and giving them expressive, human-like features. And if, as Breazeal hopes, robots are to become our partners, they need to develop the same social skills as people, including emotions. NOVA scienceNOW joins Breazeal in her lab and introduces viewers to some of her seminal inventions: the famous toddler- like robotic head named Kismet; Leonardo, a million-dollar joint project with Stan Winston, legendary in Hollywood for The Terminator robots; and a touch-sensitive teddy bear called the Huggable, which may someday comfort patients and assist caregivers in hospital pediatric wards." November 21, 2006. (more)
• Paraplegics take first steps with robotic legs.
  The device, called ReWalk, is the brainchild of engineer Amit Goffer, founder of Argo Medical Technologies, based in Israel. ReWalk consists of motorised leg supports, body sensors and a back pack that contains a computer and rechargeable batteries. Users still need crutches to help with balance. Goffer himself became paralysed in an accident in 1997, but because he lacks full use of his arms cannot use his own invention. To move, the user picks a setting with a remote control wrist band – "stand", "sit", "walk", "descend" or "climb" – and then leans forward, activating the body sensors and setting the robotic legs in motion. ReWalk is in clinical trials in Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Centre, with more scheduled at the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute in Pennsylvania, US. August 26, 2008. (more)
• Pneumatic robot arranges limbs for MRI 'sweet spot'.
  A pneumatic robot that positions patients' limbs inside an MRI scanner allows physicians to exploit a bizarre phenomenon where hard-to-see tendons jump into sharp focus when held at the right angle. That "magic angle" effect happens when a tendon is at 55° to a scanner's powerful magnetic field and can help with diagnosing tendon injuries. ... The robot judges its own position, and even uses image processing software to check whether it has reached the right angle. (with video). August 01, 2008. (more)
• Poker Academy Bots Win AAAI Competition.
  Brief explanation of poker-playing program, Sparbot, after win at AAAI-06 competition in Boston. Short interviews with Michael Bowling and Darse Billings. September 2006. (more)
• Poker bots raise the stakes for human players .
  the scene, at a nondescript booth of a Las Vegas convention centre in July this year, may to be a pivotal moment for the development of artificial intelligence. That's because at the Gaming Life Expo at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, a computer program called Polaris became the first to beat a team of world-class poker players, each of whom had previously won more than $1 million. Some may see the victory as the latest dismal step in silicon's march towards superiority over humans. Others will view it as an exciting move forward in artificial intelligence - a foretaste of the sophisticated tasks computers should be able to perform for us in years to come. November 13, 2008. (more)
• Project Listen Collection.
  Collection of Videos from Project Listen, the reading tutor developed by Jack Mostow at CMU. Last update 2006. (more)
• Prospects keep hand on the stick, eye on the screen.
  Scouting young hockey prospects is, at best, an inexact science. Something Lauren Sergio is aiming to change with the help of her trusty “force field-creating robotic arm.” ... It was developed in the artificial intelligence lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by researchers who went on to found SensAble Technologies Inc. Using haptic – or artificial touch – technology, it allows the user to feel and manipulate objects in a virtual environment. Similar technology is used by scientists at the Canadian Space Agency to manipulate robotic arms and by medical students to practise surgeries on virtual patients by simulating the textures of bones and tissues. September 22, 2008. (more)
• The Painting Fool.
  Simon Colton lecture on The Painting Fool. Winner of the 2007 Machine Intelligence Competition. December 11, 2007. (more)
• The prototype.
  Short video of Microsoft Research work on gesture-based interface. Shown by Eric Horvitz at keynote panel at Gartner ITxpo 2007. April 26, 2007. (more)