Category: AI
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CSEE Professor Marie desJardins interviewed for Voices in AI podcast
Voices in AI – Episode 20: A Conversation with Marie desJardins Byron Reese interviewed UMBC CSEE Professor Marie desJardins as part of his Voices in AI podcast series on Gigaom. In the episode, they talk about the Turing test, Watson, autonomous vehicles, and language processing. Visit the Voices in AI site to listen to the…
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UMBC researchers develop AI system to design clothing for your personal fashion style
AI system designs clothing for your personal fashion style Everyone knows that more and more data is being collected about our everyday activities, like where we go online and in the physical world. Much of that data is being used for personalization. Recent UMBC CSEE Masters student Prutha Date explored a novel kind of…
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talk: Sarit Kraus on Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People, Noon Fri 8/4
Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People Prof. Sarit Kraus Deptartment of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, 52900 Israel 12:00-1:00pm Friday, 4 August 2017, ITE ITE 217B, UMBC Automated agents that interact proficiently with people can be useful in supporting, training or replacing people in complex tasks. The inclusion of people presents novel problems…
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UMBC’s Prof. Cynthia Matuszek receives NSF award for robot language acquisition
Professor Cynthia Matuszek has received a research award from the National Science Foundation to improve human-robot interactions by enabling them to understand the world from natural language in order to take instructions and learn about their environment naturally and intuitively. The two-year award, Joint Models of Language and Context for Robotic Language Acquisition, will support…
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UMBC computer scientists explain how AI can help translate legalese before online users click “agree”
Every day, people interact with large amounts of text online, including legal documents they might quickly skim and sign without full, careful review. In an article recently published in The Conversation, Karuna Joshi, research associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, and Tim Finin, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, explain how…
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Prof. Marie desJardins named by Forbes as one of 21 women who are advancing AI research
An article on Forbes’ site this week cites UMBC’s Professor Marie desJardins as one of 21 women who are advancing A.I. research. The article notes that artificial intelligence is “eating the world, transforming virtually every industry and function” and highlights women who are AI educators, researchers and business leaders who are driving the development and…
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talk: Human-Like Strategies for Language-Endowed Intelligent Agents, 11am Fri 4/48, UMBC
The UMBC Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR) is pleased to present as part of our distinguished lecture series Human-Like Strategies for Language-Endowed Intelligent Agents Dr. Sergei Nirenburg Professor of Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 11:00am Friday, 28 April 2017, ITE 325b Artificial intelligent agents functioning in human-agent teams must correctly interpret perceptual…
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Microsoft launches competition to create collaborative AI system to play Minecraft
A Microsoft Research team challenged PhD students to craft an advanced AI-based system that can collaborate with people in playing the popular Minecraft game, offering three $20K prizes. Minecraft was chosen because it offers an environment that, which relatively simple in some ways, it requires advances in areas that are still difficult for artificial…
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IBM’s Arvind Krishna, Accelerating Technology Disruption: the Cognitive Revolution, 1pm Fri 2/24, UMBC
CSEE Department Distinguished Seminar Accelerating Technology Disruption: The Cognitive Revolution Dr. Arvind Krishna Senior Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and Director, IBM Research 1:00-2:00pm, Friday, 24 February 2017, PAHB 132 Digital disruption is changing the world around us, breaking down traditional barriers to market entry, creating new business models, and leading to new solutions to global challenges.…
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Prof. Marie desJardins comments on the risks of autonomous weapon systems
The real challenge will come when we start to put more autonomy into drones and assault robots.