Zurich, Switzerland/La Jolla, USA December 16 – CENDOO and Semantic System have entered into an OEM contract to use Semantic’s ai-one™ in CENDOO’s Butler product.

Ever felt overwhelmed by too much information and communication? CENDOO and Semantic System are working on a totally new approach to tackle one of the biggest challenges for users of information technology:  information overload (see “Drowning in Information? You’re Not Alone“ of Huffington Post). While search engines are getting ever more powerful and provide more and more features, this is also bad news.  Users are swamped with huge amounts of information and the user has to go through the results to find what is of interest and relevant.  This process has to be repeated and refined, sometimes with multiple search engines, until he or she has found the right answers. Search engines available aren’t providing the essential feature: personalized semantic search.

Running on your PC as a virtual twin, CENDOO’s Butler knows your focus and preferences,  ”reading” and classifying search results and documents until it can deliver exactly and precisely what you need. The Butler will be available in 2010. Learn more: www.cendoo.com

To view the entire press release please click here: PR-20091216-Cendoo-finalizes-contract.

Researchers have created an “aware” cell phone that learns the user’s behaviour pattern. The phone could provide a better service, for example how to better manage the video download when the user is about to leave the 3G network range.

The phone uses the built-in accelerometer and a neural network software to predict what happens next and act accordingly. Would you like such a gadget?

(via newscientist.com)

Engineers at Northwestern University have created with “News At Seven” an entire newsroom operation that uses artificial intelligence to collect stories, produce graphics and even anchor broadcasts via avatars. Check out the NSF video (with a text version).

Research shows that animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent. Honeybees for example can count and categorise similar objects like human faces, traits that scientist previously thought were limited to larger animals. So, what are big(ger) brains for?

(via sciencedaily.com)