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• Eric Horvitz with Microsoft Research on “Surprise Modeling”.
  Eric Horvitz, head of the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research, talks about surprise modeling. 2008?. (more)
• HRP-2.
  HRP-2 is a humanoid robot designed by Japanese researchers that is programmed to reproduce dance steps with the practiced grace of an electronic geisha. The 5-foot-tall (1.5-meter-tall) robot is seen here at a press demo at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science on January 12, 2005. (more)
• Handle With Care .
  “The complexity of newly engineered systems coupled with their potential impact on lives, the environment, etc., raise a set of ethical issues that engineers had not been thinking about,” said William A. Wulf, a computer scientist who until last year headed the National Academy of Engineering. As one of his official last acts, he established the Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society there. Rachelle Hollander, a philosopher who directs the center, said the new technologies were so powerful that “our saving grace, our inability to affect things at a planetary level, is being lost to us,” as human-induced climate change is demonstrating. ... “It’s a hot topic,” said Ronald C. Arkin, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech who advises the Army on robot weapons. “We need at least to think about what we are doing while we are doing it, to be aware of the consequences of our research.” ...Dr. Arkin said robotics researchers should consider not just how to make robots more capable, but also who must bear responsibility for their actions and how much human operators should remain “in the loop,” particularly with machines to aid soldiers on the battlefield or the disabled in their homes. August 11, 2008. (more)
• Handsfree Decision Support - Full version.
  Demonstration of handsfree decision support systems for trauma care. The system executed on a portable computer, employing speech recognition coupled with a Bayesian inference and decision making system. After the demo, details of the system construction and use are presented. 1995. (more)
• Handsfree Decision Support - Short version.
  A demonstration of a handsfree Bayesian decision support system designed for trauma support. April 1995. (more)
• Have you hugged a robot today?
  "Mechanical creatures that respond to humans are cute, but are also a step on the way to improving our relationship with machines. ... to [Steve] Bannerman, a former Apple staffer who set up Quicktime TV (which became the iTunes Store), Pleo, as the dinosaur is called, might just be the future of human-machine interaction. Pleo, made by a company called Ugobe, coos and even sings. Rub its neck and stomach and it blinks its baby-like eyes and turns towards you and writhes happily. ... Pleo fascinated him: "I fell in love with this dinosaur," he says. "I loved the artificial intelligence component." July 31 2008. (more)
• Hear Here.
  Raj Reddy, et al. Video made in 1969, showing work from 1968. (more)
• History of Computer Chess.
  Panel Discussion with John McCarthy, David Levy, Murray Campbell and Edward Feigenbaum. Moderated by Monty Newborn. Computer Museum. This panel, comprising seminal contributors to the solution of this challenge -- including two of AI's leading pioneers -- discusses the origin and development of computer chess and what it tells us about ourselves and the machines we build. Sept. 8, 2005. (more)
• Human Computation.
  Lecture by Luis von Ahn. Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Traditional approaches to solving such problems focus on improving software. I advocate a novel approach: constructively channel human brainpower using computer games. For example, the ESP Game, described in this talk, is an enjoyable online game -- many people play over 40 hours a week -- and when people play, they help label images on the Web with descriptive keywords. These keywords can be used to significantly improve the accuracy of image search. People play the game not because they want to help, but because they enjoy it. . July 26, 2006. (more)
• Humanoid Tai Chi Robot.
  Robo-Erectus Humanoid Robot performing Tai Chi at Singapore Robotics Games 2008. The robot is developed by the Advanced Robotics & Intelligent Control Centre (ARICC) at Singapore Polytechnic. April 2, 2008 (more)