http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for a relatively modest set of actual accomplishments. Now, some of the pioneers of the field, joined by later generations of thinkers, are gearing up for a massive 'do-over' of the whole idea. http://www.physorg.com/news179400180.html Technology Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:23:41 EST news179400180 (AP) -- Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine. http://www.physorg.com/news179255617.html Electronics Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:16:48 EST news179255617 (PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the same artificial intelligence (AI) underlying NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope is now streamlining patient care at Strong Memorial Hospital, helping radiologists and technologists juggle the hundreds of requests for CT scans, ultrasounds, and other imaging procedures that they receive daily. This AI technology - a software program called On-Cue - works like an air-traffic controller to shuffle procedure schedules for Strong Memorial`s emergency department, inpatient units and outpatient clinics, with the twin goals of shortening wait times and helping staff use equipment more efficiently. http://www.physorg.com/news179084056.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:34:58 EST news179084056 (PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore and predict results of many different possible military and policy actions, say computer science researchers at the University of Maryland in a commentary published in the November 27 issue of the journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news178458781.html Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:00:01 EST news178458781 (PhysOrg.com) -- They already detect and defuse bombs, control traffic patterns and do some basic household chores. And scientists predict that pretty soon, robots will be using artificial intelligence to play a larger role on the battlefield, operate our vehicles and take care of us in old age. http://www.physorg.com/news178220683.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:45:27 EST news178220683 (PhysOrg.com) -- Even well-defended computers can leak shocking amounts of private data. MIT researchers seek out exotic attacks in order to shut them down. http://www.physorg.com/news176107396.html Technology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:10:01 EST news176107396 (PhysOrg.com) -- In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz -- a 30-fold increase. And now, seven years later, a good computer chip has a clock speed of... still about three gigahertz. http://www.physorg.com/news175509292.html Technology Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:35:53 EST news175509292 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have implanted miniature neural and muscle stimulation systems into beetles to enable their flight to be remotely controlled. http://www.physorg.com/news174812133.html Technology Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:00:02 EST news174812133 Researchers at Carlos III University (Spain) have taken part in an international contest whose objective is to improve artificial intelligence utilized in virtual worlds. The challenge for the participants was to develop a program capable of acting like a person in a video game. http://www.physorg.com/news174719623.html Technology Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:30:01 EST news174719623 (PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city could take a cell-phone photo of an unmarked monument and immediately find out what it was. And an Internet image search on, say, "Shakespeare" would pull up pictures of Shakespeare, not pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie Shakespeare in Love. Though object recognition is one of the major research topics in computer vision, MIT researchers may have found a way to make it much more practical. http://www.physorg.com/news174646349.html Technology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:30:07 EST news174646349 (PhysOrg.com) -- More and more, malicious hackers are exploiting web site security holes to attack their victims' computers. Programmers try to identify those holes in advance and plug them with code that performs security checks; but if they find a hundred holes and miss one, their programs are still insecure. At next week's ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, however, MIT researchers will present a new system called Resin, which automatically calls up security checks whenever they're required, even in unforeseen circumstances. http://www.physorg.com/news174209537.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:50:01 EST news174209537 (PhysOrg.com) -- Challenge a simple pocket calculator at arithmetic and you may be left in the dust. But even the most sophisticated computer cannot match the reasoning of a youngster who looks outside, sees a fresh snowfall, and knows how to bundle up for the frosty outdoors. http://www.physorg.com/news174067286.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:01:55 EST news174067286 (PhysOrg.com) -- Although Cornell's self-driving car didn't win the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007, it is alive and well and soon to become safer and more talented -- it will soon be a test bed for new research in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). http://www.physorg.com/news174034872.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:15:02 EST news174034872 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, broke with precedent by proposing federal rules that enforce Net neutrality -- the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) shouldn't play favorites with the traffic traveling over their networks. http://www.physorg.com/news173341042.html Technology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:30:02 EST news173341042 (PhysOrg.com) -- On May 21, the day the White House unveiled its Open Government Initiative, it also launched the website data.gov, which put information like Medicare cost reports, residential energy consumption and state-by-state toxicity reports online. Finding new technical means to make data accessible is central to the Obama administration's plans for increasing government transparency, and as those plans unfold, the administration will have growing support from the World Wide Web Consortium's eGovernment interest group. http://www.physorg.com/news173004532.html Technology Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:00:01 EST news173004532 A team of researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) has developed an intelligent surveillance system able to detect aberrant behaviour by drivers and people on foot crossing pedestrian crossings and in other urban settings. The study, published this month in the journal Expert Systems with Applications, could be used to penalise incorrect behaviour. http://www.physorg.com/news172485622.html Technology Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:40:36 EST news172485622 Researchers at NRL's Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, within the laboratory's Information Technology Division (ITD), received two top awards at the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) held in California. Selecting from a cadre of 39 competitor videos, IJCAI awarded the NRL films with top honors in the categories of "Best Overall" and "Most Informative." http://www.physorg.com/news171885177.html Technology Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:10:06 EST news171885177 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention and dispute settlement for European law, and it even supports policy. http://www.physorg.com/news171285938.html Technology Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:26:02 EST news171285938 (AP) -- Chatter about ensuing plans permeates any graduation, though it's not common for the talk to surround which class projects will receive venture capital funding. http://www.physorg.com/news170697852.html Technology Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:04:34 EST news170697852 A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has created a system with Artificial Intelligence techniques which notifies elderly people or people with special needs of the forgetting of certain everyday tasks. This system uses sensors distributed in the environment in order to detect their actions and mobile devices which remind them, for example, to take their keys before they leave home. http://www.physorg.com/news170593432.html Technology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:04:24 EST news170593432 (PhysOrg.com) -- In August 2007, Le Trung invented Aiko, a Yumecom, or "Dream Computer Robot." Although it took only a month and a half to build Aiko's exterior, the artificial intelligence software has been a work in progress ever since. Recently, Le Trung has demonstrated his most recent improvements to the software, called BRAINS (Bio Robot Artificial Intelligence Neural System). http://www.physorg.com/news170419268.html Technology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:42:10 EST news170419268 In the movie "2010," while trying to salvage the mission to Jupiter, the Hal 9000 computer noted, "I enjoy working with human beings, and have stimulating relationships with them." http://www.physorg.com/news169914116.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:10:03 EST news169914116 (PhysOrg.com) -- When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics," he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of engineers to take up robotics. http://www.physorg.com/news168100759.html Technology Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:10:01 EST news168100759 When doctors are managing care for women with breast cancer, the information available to them profoundly influences the type of care they recommend. Knowing whether a woman's cancer has metastasized, for instance, directly affects how her doctors will approach treatment -- which may in turn influence the outcome of that treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news167990291.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:00:02 EST news167990291 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is funding the development of a prototype system to provide aircraft with updates about severe storms and turbulence as they fly across remote ocean regions. http://www.physorg.com/news166197516.html Space & Earth Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:30:02 EST news166197516 A team of scientists have developed an innovative robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its whiskers. The SCRATCHbot robot will be demonstrated this week at an international workshop looking at how robots can help us examine the workings of the brain. http://www.physorg.com/news165577956.html Electronics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:54:10 EST news165577956 (PhysOrg.com) -- A robotic vision system that mimics key visual functions of the human brain promises to let robots manoeuvre quickly and safely through cluttered environments, and to help guide the visually impaired. http://www.physorg.com/news165568679.html Electronics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:18:38 EST news165568679 Bioengineers at Duke University have developed a laboratory robot that can successfully locate tiny pieces of metal within flesh and guide a needle to its exact location -- all without the need for human assistance. http://www.physorg.com/news164548695.html Electronics Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:40:01 EST news164548695 Agnes Guillot dreams of one day seeing a giant 50-centimetre (20-inch) -long white rat called Psikharpax scuttling fearlessly around her lab. http://www.physorg.com/news163591762.html Electronics Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:10:50 EST news163591762 (AP) -- This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo has been quite the moving experience. http://www.physorg.com/news163254077.html Electronics Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:22:04 EST news163254077