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The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Artificial Intelligence on 23rd November 2006. The different achievements of the broad Flemish AI research will be highlighted. This celebration will be held in the beautiful Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten near the royal palace in Brussels. Registration is free of charge but obligatory.
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Thrun (director of Stanford University's artificial-intelligence laboratory) and a team of computer scientists wrote more than 100,000 lines of code to tell it what to do. A map tells the car where to drive; a planning tool points out unsafe terrain; and a controller translates all of that into action. The software runs on six Pentium M processors, Intel-made, low-power chips originally designed for the telecommunications industry.
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The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (EPFL) organises an interesting podcast in which they interview professionals in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence every two weeks. The latest episode features a fascinating interview with veteran Prof. Steels in which he shares his views on language evolution and genetic basis for language, and the importance of embodiment and robot experiments for understanding communication. You can subscribe to this podcast on its homepage or download the complete interview (mp3, 13MB).
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Carla Gomes works on solving hard combinatorial problems by combining techniques from artificial intelligence and operations research. She focuses on studying the role of randomization in computation, characterization of the distribution profiles (especially "heavy-tailed distributions") of randomized algorithms, and consequences for algorithm design. Gomes won the Best Consultant award from the Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, co-won the Distinguished Paper Award at the 2004 Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2004), and is the director of the Intelligent Information Systems Institute.
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