News tagged with artificial intelligence programming

Televisions getting Siri-style personal assistants

Startup Vlingo on Tuesday said that it is giving televisions the kind of voice-controlled "virtual assistants" that have been a hit with the latest version of Apple's hot-selling iPhone.

Technology / Software

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tinkering with evolution: Ecological implications of modular software networks

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 1960s, Dr. Lawrence J. Fogel introduced what would come to be known as evolutionary programming to the nascent field of Artificial Intelligence in an attempt to produce intelligent softwa ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy dies

John McCarthy, a pioneer of artificial intelligence, has died at the age of 84, the Stanford School of Engineering announced.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Chatty robots go viral on YouTube

(PhysOrg.com) -- An online chat between two robots set up by Cornell students is entertaining the nation.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

An Israeli algorithm sheds light on the Bible

Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible. The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 66

Gaming - step by step

(PhysOrg.com) -- For one University of Alberta professor, making the move from California to Edmonton turned out to be the first step in becoming involved with an award-winning video game.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Putting the squeeze on data

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data compression is one of the fundamental research areas in computer science, letting information systems do more with less. It’s the reason the iPod nano can hold thousands of songs instead ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Artificial Intelligence Shuffles Schedules, Cuts Patients' Wait Times

(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 ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Secure computers aren't so secure

(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.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 3

Parallel course: Researchers help ease transition to parallel programming

(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 ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 10

'Tetris' still a videogame star at age 25

It was spring in what was then the Soviet Union when a mathematician in Moscow with a penchant for puzzles created a "Tetris" computer game still going strong 25 years later.

Technology / Software

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Endless original, copyright-free music

A group of researchers from the University of Granada has developed Inmamusys, a software program that can create music in response to emotions that arise in the listener. By using Artificial Intelligence techniques, the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 8