After three decades of disappointments, artificial intelligence has made progress and spurred new applications, such as spam filters or the driverless robotic cars. With the work of Daphne Koller things like predict traffic jams, improve machine vision and understand the way cancer spreads can now be done. 

Daphne Kollers work is based on a formula for updating the probabilities of events based on repeated observations - the Bayesian approach - and it has had an important commercial impact. Her work may lead to software systems, that could read and understand unstructured texts such as web pages (from nytimes.com).

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