Individual and group efforts in the fields of AI and robotics, ot within the scope of institutional research. Also, "do it yourself"-type web resources.
A robotics project using artificial intelligence and vision.
Leaf is a software implementation inspired by the Mindscape Entertainment game "Creatures". It is being developed by Bruce Weimer of the Robotics Society of Southern California (rssc.org).
OBJECTIVES Design and build a robot which will be computationally powerful, easy to work on, large enough to operate in a real world house or office environment and interact with the same household features that humans do, and be (of course) relatively inexpensive.
The robot will come with a basic software complement which provides numerous functions and establish all the basic I/O and motor control interfaces. All the source code and access to compilers will be provided to make it possible for new builders to modify the code as they desire.
It should have the hardware and software capacities to carry a reasonable weight, operate for hours at a time, and perform memory and throughput intensive tasks such as vision, speech recognition and generation, and sophisticated artificial intelligence techniques.
The robot should be constructed using, as far as practical, commonly available hardware and software; preferably free or inexpensive. Standard PC equipment and software will be used for the "intelligence".
The design should be flexible enough to accommodate future changes easily including alternate drive systems (e.g. tracks), addition of an arm(s), addition of animated head, etc.
In particular, the robot should provide a good platform for research into AI, vision and navigation.
The robot design will be well documented on the web so that anyone else can duplicate our design or use our methods to design their own robot.
Yahoo group of the Leaf project.
By A.T. Murray based on the AI4U Concept-Fiber Theory of Mind.
OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) is a library of programming functions mainly aimed at real time computer vision.
Example applications of the OpenCV library are Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Object Identification, Segmentation and Recognition; Face Recognition; Gesture Recognition; Motion Tracking, Ego Motion, Motion Understanding; Structure From Motion (SFM); Stereo and Multi-Camera Calibration and Depth Computation; Mobile Robotics.
The Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG), founded in June of 1984, is one of the US oldest special interest groups dedicated to the development and use of personal robotics. The DPRG is a 501(c)(3) not for profit educational organization. DPRG members are interested in autonomous robots, movie replica robots, vintage robots, robot and kinetic art, as well as just about anything involving electronics, technology, or science.
BIOSCI newsgroup NEUROSCIENCE / bionet.neuroscience is for Research issues in the neurosciences.
The SL4 mailing list is a refuge for discussion of advanced topics in transhumanism and the Singularity, including but not limited to topics such as Friendly AI, strategies for handling the emergence of ultra-powerful technologies, handling existential risks (planetary risks), strategies to accelerate the Singularity or protect its integrity, avoiding the military use of nanotechnology and grey goo accidents, methods of human intelligence enhancement, self-improving Artificial Intelligence, contemporary AI projects that are explicitly trying for genuine Artificial Intelligence or even a Singul
Catalogs of links and other items related to artificial intelligence.
Combinatorial Pattern Matching addresses issues of searching and matching strings and more complicated patterns such as trees, regular expressions, graphs, point sets, and arrays. The goal is to derive non-trivial combinatorial properties for such structures and then to exploit these properties in order to achieve improved performance for the corresponding computational problem.
Not exactly a fresh resource, but I found it useful.
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) on Linux is becoming easier. Several packages are available for users as well as developers. This document describes the basics of speech recognition and describes some of the available software.
Also at http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Speech-Recognition-HOWTO.html
Information, resources newsletters and mailing lists relating to intelligent information agents, intentional agents, software agents, softbots, knowbots, infobots, etc. Published and maintained by the UMBC Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology.
Note: this resource is old/outdated (last updated in 2003 or 2005).
(Note: self-signed SSL certificate is used, don't be surprised with a warning.)
Science and semi-technical jobs in sciences. Updated daily. Doesn't appear to have any AI-related jobs, but I might have missed those.
both current and no longer existing
In September 1996, Broadcom Ireland formed a research collaboration with the Computer Science Department in Trinity College Dublin, in order to explore current research in the domain of Intelligent Agents and to apply this technology to several applications. The resulting collaboration has been named the Intelligent Agents Group (IAG) , consisting of four members from TCD working in liason with a group of similar size from Broadcom.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AREA 1: Distributed Problem Solving in Multi-Agent Systems AREA 2: Intelligent Agents in Mobile Computing AREA 3: Intelligent Interface Agents
This group's site seems to have been abandonned around 1996.
Founded in 2001, AGIRI's mission is to foster the creation of powerful and ethically positive Artificial General Intelligence.
MIRI is a non-profit, based in Berkeley, CA, that sponsors mathematicians to research topics related to AI.
The Intelligent Systems Division of the USC/Information Sciences Institute (ISI) hosts one of the leading Artificial Intelligence research groups in the world.
Research areas include human language technology, education and training, information agents, multi-agent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, interactive knowledge capture, semantic web languages, and adaptive robots.
Located at The University of Arizona, in the Management Information Systems (MIS) Department, the Artificial Intelligence Lab, headed by Dr. Hsinchun Chen, is an internationally-known research group in the areas of digital libraries, intelligent retrieval, collaborating computing, and knowledge management. The group is known for its adaptation and development of scalable and practical artificial intelligence, neural networks, genetic algorithms, statistical analysis, computational linguistics, and visualization techniques.
Current research activities focus on machine learning and data mining, natural language processing and text mining, information retrieval and knowledge management.
Scientific and Engineering Applications
Dubai Agents & Multi-Agents Systems (DAMAS) Research Group at the British University in Dubai is affiliated with the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
Group conducts theoretical and applied research into Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) in particular. Expertise ranges from data mining and machine learning, to multi-agent systems and semantic web technologies.
The UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County) Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology (LAIT) is an interdisciplinary research group focused on advanced database and knowledge-based systems, intelligent agents, text and natural language processing, intelligent interfaces, information retrieval and hypertext systems, machine learning, and artificial life.
Application areas include information retrieval, manufacturing planning and scheduling, electronic commerce, healthcare information systems and electronic publishing.
The Artificial Intelligence and Education (AI-ED) Group is part of the Division of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh, although it has strong links with other research groups and institutes within and outwith Edinburgh. The group's main purpose is the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques and methods to support learning and teaching/training.
Theory and applications of intelligent systems.
Shakey is a nickname of a robot.
Founded in November 1992. UAsIPPR is a member of IAPR - International Association for Pattern Recognition.
The Ukrainian Association for Information Processing and Pattern Recognition is a voluntary public creative scientific organization which unites research teams of institutions, organizations as well as citizens of Ukraine on a voluntary basis and a community of interests to achieve the goal and tasks provided by the UAsIPPR Constitution.
Now UAsIPPR unites more than 75 researchers. It organizes international conferences, publishes their proceedings.
УАсОІРО заснована в листопаді 1992 року та зареєстрована Мін'юстом України у березні 1993 року. УАсОІРО входить до Міжнародної асоціації з розпізнавання образів (IAPR - International Association for Pattern Recognition).
Українська асоціація з оброблення інформації та розпізнавання образів є добровільною громадською науково-творчою організацією, що об'єднує колективи науковців з інститутів, установ, а також окремих українських громадян на добровільній основі і спільності інтересів та цілей. Мету і задачі асоціації докладно описано в Статуті.
OpenCog aims to provide research scientists and software developers with a common platform to build and share artificial intelligence programs. The long-term goal of OpenCog is acceleration of the development of beneficial AGI, a goal which includes developing tools and protocols for AGI Safety.
Open-source, BSD-licensed robotics software libraries and platform (ROS).
Free Software tools for robot and sensor applications.
The Player Project creates Free Software that enables research in robot and sensor systems. The Player robot server is probably the most widely used robot control interface in the world. Its simulation backends, Stage and Gazebo, are also very widely used.
Released under the GNU General Public License, all code from the Player/Stage project is free to use, distribute and modify. Player is developed by an international team of robotics researchers and used at labs around the world.
An Executive is responsible for task execution on-board an autonomous robot. TREX is a hybrid executive combining goal-driven and event-driven behavior in a unified framework based on temporal plans and temporal planning. TREX uses a single declarative programming language and shared runtime state for both deliberation and execution offering a seamless integration between planning and control. TREX also provides explicit support for compositional control which improves modularity, scalability, and robustness.
Open-Source Large Vocabulary CSR Engine Julius
Carnegie Mellon University Open Source Toolkit For Speech Recognition
