Artificial Intelligence News Feed

Presentations Shine at 2nd Annual ISD Grad Student Symposium
The audience on Friday listened to the presentations, viewed the posters and voted on the best among them.

The Newest AI Computing Tool: People
Lerman shared her recent work with others in the growing field of social information processing a special AAAI- sponsored symposium on the subject in the March at Stanford.

RAW Talent Tackles Risk Analysis
Michael Orosz is leading the team working on the tool, called Risk Analysis Workbench, or RAW.

ISI’s Craig Knoblock Wins Microsoft Virtual Earth Award
The program will distribute funding totaling $1.1 million to help academic researchers innovate in advanced mapping and location-based search technologies.

ISI Leads $13.8 Million E-Science Effort to Tame Terabyte Torrents
ISI computer scientist Yolanda Gil leads the newly funded $13.8 million Windward project.

ISI Division Directors Contribute to National Academy Report on IT for Disaster Response
The 176-page report, released January 22, includes 10 specific recommendations.

ISI Associate Named to Prestigious NSF Advisory Board
ISI’s Yolanda Gil will guide national and international research directions.

ISI Wins Share of $10.2 Million Homeland Security Effort
In addition to USC, the other participants will be the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Biologist Brings NeuroScholar Project to ISI
Burns sees his mission at ISI as creating links between the biologists at University park campus and the computer scientists at ISI.

Fitting Software to Students
The use of Intelligent Tutoring Systems( ITS) and other high-tech learning tools is increasing across the nation.