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• A website that hopes to speak the language of freely available data .
  Flummoxed by a document in Welsh? Now you can get a free translation at cymraeg.org.uk. The Apertium-cy software, described as the first free automatic translator from Welsh to English, is the fruit of a multilingual effort involving developers in Spain, Wales and Ireland pushing forward the possibilities of open-source software and, they hope, free public-sector data. ... Work on the Welsh-language version was led by Francis Tyers and Kevin Donnelly. It contains about 10,000 words in Welsh and English and 150 grammatical rules - enough to get the gist of the text, the developers say. The idea is to provide an easy way for people who don't speak Welsh to keep an eye on Welsh-language media reports in an area of interest, and to provide a "first-pass" translation of documents, improving the productivity of human translators. August 14, 2008. (more)
• CSE Colloquia - 2005: Learning, Logic, and Probability - A Unified View.
  "Artificial intelligence systems must be able to learn, reason logically, and handle uncertainty. Research has focused on each of these goals individually, and only recently have attempts been made to achieve all three at once. In this colloquium, Pedro Domingos, UW Computer Science & Engineering, describes Markov logic: a representation that combines the full power of first-order logic and probabilistic graphical models, and algorithms for learning and inference in it. Experiments in a real-world university domain." November 2, 2004. (more)
• Washburn Lecture Series at the Museum of Science, Boston: "2001: A Space Odyssey. Are we there yet?" Lecture one (of three) - Human/Computer Conversation: HAL and Beyond, with Justine Cassell, Ph.D..
  Justine Cassell's lecture, "Human/Computer Conversation: HAL and Beyond," was the first in the three speaker lecture series: "2001: A Space Odyssey. Are we there yet?" November 6, 2001. (more)
• What is Artificial Intelligence?
  One of the founders of the field of AI, McCarthy covers the basics in a question and answer format, starting with: "Q. What is artificial intelligence? A. It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable. Q. Yes, but what is intelligence? A. Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in the world. Varying kinds and degrees of intelligence occur in people, many animals and some machines." (more)
• When Computers Meld With Our Minds.
  ...e-mails represent just a small sample of the vast amount of digital information being generated by the gigabyte every minute. If we can cope with this rising flood of information, we are likely to be on track for using technology in the creation of superhuman intelligence, according to Vernor Vinge, futurist, best-selling science fiction author, and retired professor of computer science. Machines will become far more than just tools; they will physically merge with us, seamlessly endowing powers that are currently beyond our imagination. And all of this will happen in our lifetime, Vinge says. 07/25/08. (more)
• Where the Social Web Meets the Semantic Web.
  Tom Gruber invited lecture at Intl.Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2006, Athens, GA. "The Semantic Web is an ecosystem of interaction among computer systems. The social web is an ecosystem of conversation among people. Both are enabled by conventions for layered services and data exchange. Both are driven by human-generated content and made scalable by machine-readable data. ... the Semantic Web [is] a substrate for collective intelligence. The best shot we have of collective intelligence in our lifetimes is large, distributed human-computer systems. The best way to get there is to harness the "people power" of the Web with the techniques of the Semantic Web." 2006. (more)
• Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capable AI Within a Quarter Century.
  Ray Kurzweil (Invited Dinner Speaker). July 15, 2006. (more)
• Winograd-Demonstration SHRDLU.
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• Wired Science Interviews: Red Whittaker, Roboticist.
  Ziya Tong talks to Red Whittaker about his career path, autonomous robots in hazardous environments and emergency situations, the DARPA Urban Challenge, his favorite robot, and much more. Film clips of his robots at work are interspersed throughout the discussion. 2007. (more)
• Wired Science: Face Reader.
  "Ziya Tong meets children with Asperger’s Syndrome testing a new MIT Media Lab device that reads facial expressions." In the course of the report she discusses the project with several individuals including Rana el Kaliouby Ph.D. (Mindreader Software Developer, MIT)); Alea Teeters (MIT Affective Computing Group), and Rosalind Picard, Ph.D. (Director, MIT Affective Computing Group). October 3, 2007. (more)
• Women in the History of Computer Science: a panel discussion at the 1997 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
  "A panel of pioneers of the 1940s and 1950s discusses their experiences which range from programming the world's first computing machines to developing biomedical and graphical applications for computers. This video provides an opportunity to hear and learn the hidden history of the period and confirm that Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper were not the only female contributors to the rich history of computing! These pioneers remain role models for women in computing today." September 1997. (more)