News Sampling from AAAI's AI TOPICS "AI in the news" Collection

• Oliver Selfridge, an Early Innovator in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 82 . - 16 days ago
  Oliver G. Selfridge, an innovator in early computer science and artificial intelligence, died on Wednesday in Boston. He was 82. ... Credited with coining the term “intelligent agents,” for software programs capa...
  
• Unicycle riding robot unveiled - 6 days ago
  Japanese robot firm Murata manufacturing has unveiled a robot which is well-balanced enough to ride a unicycle. The robot called "Murataseiko-chan" can also detect obstacles with its sensor and move toward or around them.
  
• The robot that acts like Keanu Reeves . - 6 days ago
  [Researchers at] the University of West of England and the University of Bristol, as part of a project called Human-Robot Interaction, have been working to perfect an (allegedly) human-looking robot. You know, one that can...
  
• Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone) . - 6 days ago
  Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone. Use...
  
• Untangling Web Information The Semantic Web organizer Twine offers bookmarking with built-in AI. - 6 days ago
  The next big stage in the evolution of the Internet, according to many experts and luminaries, will be the advent of the Semantic Web--that is, technologies that let computers process the meaning of Web pages instead of simp...