Remember IBM’s Watson? In Janury IBM brought in top Jeopardy contestants for a short demonstration match with Watson - and Watson won. The actual Watson against human tournament will be mid February (via theregister.co.uk)

Researchers of the Case Western Reserve University have taken insects as the source of inspiration for developing walking robots. Watch the video of a six-legged robot with a neurologically-based control system, where it walks on “rocky” ground and adapts its gait accordingly.

How do humans learn and think? And how these theories about cognition stand up in the real world? Cognitive robotics marries the study of cognitive science, that is how the brain represents and transforms information, with the challenges the real world. Read about how theories of human cognition are tested in a cognitive robotics lab (cacm.acm.org).

New research shows that intelligence needs a body (see New AI: Embodied Intelligence). Josh Bongard researches how changes in the body can affect learning processes. Bongard ran simulations of several types of robots and they each had the same goal, which is to seek out a virtual light source and evolve a walking gait to reach it (via newscientist.com).

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) are developing a robot that will be able to communicate and act autonomously. The aim is to create a machine that can interact with humans in everyday situations. Watch the video (reuters.com)

ai-one has added NKA-Decker Ltd. to to its network of Consulting Partners. NKA-Decker will provide semantic technology expertise and services and build a new generation of semantic solutions.

You can download the entire press release.

Professor Dr. Ulrich Reimer, FH St. Gallen und Walter Diggelmann, ai-one ag talked about semantic technologies in eHealth at the Semantic Meetup which took place December 13, 2010 in Zurich.

You can download the presentation of Professor Dr. Ulrich Reimer and of Walter Diggelmann.

Imagine it is the other way around: Instead of using the brain-computer-interface (BCI) to control gadgets, you or better your brain help the computer perform tasks it struggles with, such as recognize and classify images. Electrical signals within the brain fire before a person even realizes he has recognized an image as odd or unusual. Using this fact,  the researchers used a BCI to sort through satellite images for surface-to-air missiles faster than any machine or human analyst could manage alone (via technologyreview.com)

Melody Dye, science writer for Scientific American, and cognitive scientist Michael Ramscar talk about how we learn.

Professor Dr. Ulrich Reimer FH St. Gallen und Walter Diggelmann, ai-one ag präsentieren semantische Technologien in eHealth. Walter Diggelmann wird eine Einführung in ai-one™. Danach referiert Professor Dr. Ulrich Reimer die web-basierte eHealth-Platform SEMPER.

Wann: Montag, 13. Dezember 2010 18:00

Preis: USD 10,00 pro Person

Wo: Uni Zürich, Institut für Bankenwesen, Plattenstrasse 32 Seminarraum 4, Zürich

Weitere Informationen zum Vortrag finden Sie hier. Sie können die Präsentation von Professor Dr. Ulrich Reimer und das White Paper “Vergleich ai-one - traditionelle künstliche ai” herunterladen.