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  MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The AI Lab (as it is commonly abbreviated) was originally a subdivision of Project MAC.
In 2003, the AI Lab was merged with the Laboratory for Computer Science, another Project MAC descendant, to form CSAIL.
The AI Lab is currently interested principally in the problems of vision, mechanical motion and manipulation, and language, which they view as the keys to more intelligent machines.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MIT_AI_Lab   (226 words)

  
 Stanford AI Lab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (commonly called the Stanford AI Lab, or SAIL), was one of the leading centres for artificial intelligence research from the 1960s through the 1980s.
From 1965 to 1980, it was housed in the fabled D.C. Power building (named after an executive of G.T.E., which donated the building and site to Stanford, not the type of electricity), in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking Stanford.
SAIL, the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language, was developed by Dan Swinehart and Bob Sproull of the Stanford AI Lab in 1970.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanford_AI_Lab   (301 words)

  
 Jargon - Revision History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The AI Lab culture had been hit hard in the late 1970s by funding cuts and the resulting administrative decision to use vendor-supported hardware and software instead of homebrew whenever possible.
Stanford became a major TWENEX site, at one point operating more than a dozen TOPS-20 systems; but by the mid-1980s most of the interesting software work was being done on the emerging BSD UNIX standard.
Even as the advent of the microcomputer and other trends fueled a tremendous expansion of hackerdom, the File (and related materials such as the AI Koans in Appendix A) came to be seen as a sort of sacred epic, a hacker-culture Matter of Britain chronicling the heroic exploits of the Knights of the Lab.
web.bilkent.edu.tr /Online/Jargon30/INTRO/HISTORY.HTML   (1854 words)

  
 Jargon_File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The AI Lab culture had been hit hard in the late 1970s by funding cuts and the resulting administrative decision to use vendor-supported hardware and associated proprietary software instead of homebrew whenever possible.
The Stanford AI Lab had effectively ceased to exist by 1980, although the SAIL computer continued as a Computer Science Department resource until 1991.
Even as the advent of the microcomputer and other trends fueled a tremendous expansion of hackerdom, the File (and related materials such as the Some AI Koans in Appendix A) came to be seen as a sort of sacred epic, a hacker-culture Matter of Britain chronicling the heroic exploits of the Knights of the Lab.
www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Jargon_File   (1120 words)

  
 Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
The Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) is the intellectual home for researchers in the Stanford Computer Science Department whose primary research focus is Artificial Intelligence.
The lab is located in the Gates Computer Science Building and the new Clark Center, where 100+ people share the space with 20+ robots.
Members of the Stanford AI Lab have contributed to fields as diverse as bio-informatics, cognition, computational geometry, computer vision, decision theory, distributed systems, game theory, image processing, information retrieval, knowledge systems, logic, machine learning, multi-agent systems, natural language, neural networks, planning, probabilistic inference, sensor networks, and robotics.
ai.stanford.edu   (297 words)

  
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Jerry Feldman (Stanford AI Lab director, founder of Rochester's CS dept, and Berkeley's ICSI lab) wanted me to look at the prospect of designing neural networks to do explicit probabilistic reasoning, the way you might wire up a bunch of gates to do explicit logical reasoning.
And it is one of the exports of AI.
When it's done, it's something AI will be able to brag about in front of any scholar, in any decade, for a long time.
www.cs.wustl.edu /~loui/313f97/ideas6   (1912 words)

  
 yduJ's Internet History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stanford University, where I majored in Philosophy (surprisingly enough), and went on to acquire a master's in Computer Science (and a free alumni account!
The lab (which had been about 75 people strong when I joined) continued to grow, and in its growing pains began experiencing quite hideous internal politics by the time it had 300 people, and I started looking elsewhere.
The project I was on was the FAIM-1 (Fairchild AI Machine), and we used Symbolics Lisp Machines heavily (I learned lisp for real---college classes just don't prepare you for the full power of the language!) I did manage to finish up my Master's degree while at Schlumberger.
www-cs-students.stanford.edu /~yduj/history.html   (650 words)

  
 Deborah L. McGuinness
She is a co-author of the current ontology evolution environment from Stanford University.
Stanford's focus in this program was on building, distributing, and evolving collaborative and individual knowledge bases and in building rich environments for manipulating knowledge.
One technical effort she led was the Chimaera Ontology Environment that focuses on ontology evolution with special emphasis on merging ontologies and analyzing ontologies for possible or provable problems.
www.ksl.stanford.edu /people/dlm   (1212 words)

  
 Distinguished Lecture Series - Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
Stanford has recently launched a team dedicated to building a robotic vehicle capable of performing this task.
Stanford's entry relies heavily on machine learning techniques, paired with real-time planning and control.
Sebastian Thrun is the Director of the Stanford AI Lab, where he pursues research on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics with enthusiasm.
www.cs.ualberta.ca /php/abstract.php?record_num=388   (127 words)

  
 Computer scientists focus on developing programs that can learn game rules
The applications for AI are limited in this case because the computer never has to "think" for itself.
In AI research, what is important is the intelligence of the program itself.
To encourage more work on GGP in the AI community, the Stanford group hosted a GGP competition at this year's American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., July 9-13.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/2005/july13/gamessr-071305.html   (931 words)

  
 Computer History Exhibits
A coalition of Stanford computer scientists and the Computer History Museum (CHM), formerly the Computer Museum History Center (CMHC), and before that a part of The Computer Museum (TCM) in Boston, has installed exhibits within the Gates Computer Science building containing historical equipment and documents focusing on Stanford's role in the history of computing.
Doug Lenat (from Stanford, CMU, 1977-1982?, to MCI and Cycorp).
Photographs of identified and unidentified students at the AI lab are available to help.
www-db.stanford.edu /pub/voy/museum.html   (1608 words)

  
 'Stanley' gets ready for the robo-desert race | Tech News on ZDNet
Stanford will compete in the second annual DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge, a U.S. military-sponsored desert race that tests the endurance of robots.
On Saturday, the Stanford team raced Stanley over the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge course and the robot drove autonomously for all but three miles of the 144-mile course in the Mojave desert.
This is Stanford's first time in the contest, and the 60-member team means business.
news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-5790886.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnet   (1119 words)

  
 Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
The intellectual roots of AI, and the concept of intelligent machines, may be found in Greek mythology.
The MOLGEN program, written at Stanford by Mark Stefik and Peter Friedland, demonstrated that an object-oriented representation of knowledge can be used to plan gene-cloning experiments.
The Stanford Cart, built by Hans Moravec, becomes the first computer-controlled, autonomous vehicle when it successfully traverses a chair-filled room and circumnavigates the Stanford AI Lab.
www.aaai.org /AITopics/bbhist.html   (2461 words)

  
 NPUC 1995 Panelists
Previously, Lakin was a researcher at Stanford's Center for Design Research, where he created a system for the generation and conservation of design knowledge.
He worked with Carl Hewitt (at the MIT Media Lab) where he was instrumental in developing the actor paradigm and invented the first algorithm for real-time garbage collection.
At the MIT AI Lab he worked with Seymour Papert and Hal Albeson on the Logo language and computer systems for education.
www.almaden.ibm.com /cs/NPUC95/panelists.html   (821 words)

  
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Get a feel of what has been done and can be done with AI.
Write up the list with the title of each article, the author(s)’ name(s), the journal or proceeding or book it was published in, an abstract of what the program does.
Write a list of 5 projects that YOU think cannot be solved by traditional programming, but could be solved by AI.
faculty.plattsburgh.edu /evelyne.tropper/345/assign2.doc   (128 words)

  
 LAR-DEIS People - Nicola Diolaiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In April 2004 - July 2005, I am at the Stanford AI-Robotics Lab at the Stanford University (CA, USA) under the supervision of prof.
Kenneth Salisbury and Gunter Niemeyer (Stanford Telerobotics Lab), working at the stability and passivity analysis of haptic interfaces when quantization and limited amplifier bandwith introduce nonlinearities in the control loop.
The purpose of this research activity is to obtain guidelines to develop control algorithms to guarantee the passivity of the overall system also for very stiff virtual objects.
www-lar.deis.unibo.it /people/ndiolaiti/index_eng.html   (871 words)

  
 Modems
Commercial modems of 300 and 600 baud duplex capability became available, but were frustratingly slow for display users.
Students at the Stanford AI lab developed and built a number of asymmetric modems: 1200 baud from computer to terminal and 150 baud from keyboard to the SAIL computer.
The design was copied in other academic sites, but was obsoleted when 1200 baud full-duplex modems became available at less than $1000 in 1976.
www-db.stanford.edu /pub/voy/museum/phototourpages/3-2-Modem.htm   (104 words)

  
 Stanford NLP Group
The Natural Language Processing Group at Stanford University is a team of faculty, postdocs, and students who work together on algorithms that allow computers to process and understand human languages.
Our work ranges from basic research in computational linguistics to key applications in human language technology, and covers areas such as sentence understanding, probabilistic parsing and tagging, biomedical information extraction, grammar induction, word sense disambiguation, and automatic question answering.
A distinguishing feature of the Stanford NLP Group is our effective combination of sophisticated and deep linguistic modeling and data analysis with innovative probabilistic and machine learning approaches to NLP.
nlp.stanford.edu   (176 words)

  
 CS 528 -- Broad Area Colloquium for Artificial Intelligence, Geometry, Graphics, Robotics, and Computer Vision
This colloquium is intended to bring established and senior researchers from the fields of AI, Geometry, Graphics, Robotics, and Computer Vision, to discuss and explain broad considerations and high-level tasks that the relevant communities are addressing.
The talks are intended to create awareness and interest for all of the members of these communities, hopefully bridging the gaps and creating collaborations.
Stanford AI Lab (Batzoglou, Binford, Feigenbaum, Fikes, McCarthy, Genesereth Guibas, Jurafsky, Khatib, Koller, Claude Latombe, Manning, Nilsson, Ng, Salisbury, Shoham, and Thrun)
graphics.stanford.edu /courses/cs528   (398 words)

  
 AI Lab Zurich : Links : Robotics
Try also VLSI and robotics lab of the Indiana University, or the U.
Spong, Mark W. Steels, Luc (AI Lab, Free Univ. of Brussels, Belgium).
AI, Cognitive Science and Robotics University College London.
www.ifi.unizh.ch /groups/ailab/links/robotic.html   (687 words)

  
 Visit of Sebastian Thrun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As part of this presentation, the speaker will introduce the audience to the basics of probabilistic robotics, and explain why statistical techniques have become such an essential tool in robotics, in such a remarkably short time.
Professor Sebastian Thrun is the Director of the Stanford AI Lab, home to more than 120 AI researchers at Stanford University.
Thrun joined Stanford University in 2003, after having been on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University for eight years.
www.cs.hmc.edu /nelson/thrun.html   (281 words)

  
 Forum for Artificial Intelligence
In this paper, we use ontological information, probability theory, and artificial intelligence (AI) search techniques to reduce and prioritize the search space between a source vertex and a destination vertex for path-finding tasks in large semantic graphs.
During the last few years the answer set programming paradigm seems to have crossed the boundaries of AI and has started to attract people in various areas of computer science.
Past work has taken him through a previous CEO position, teaching and researching at Stanford University, numerous patents, a Hertz fellowship, a range of technical and non-technical articles and books, and $22M in raised capital.
www.cs.utexas.edu /~ai-lab/fai/2004-fall.html   (3137 words)

  
 AITV/SAIL Keyboard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
These are the keyboard that provided Control and Meta in EMACS, as you can see in the four keys at the bottom.
At MIT it was called the Knight keyboard after Tom Knight, who did design work on the whole thing.
SAIL (Stanford AI Lab) and the MIT AI Lab both had them, and the displays were 512x512 pixel green-screen displays that were bitmapped frame buffers on a PDP-11, built out of the first Intel 1Kbit semiconductor memory, attached to MIT and SAIL's respective PDP-10s.
www.graflex.org /klotz/2003/aitv   (133 words)

  
 Patriot Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I'm working for both the mainstream Stanford Daily as World and Nation Editor (I’m Sunday desk editor) and the Stanford Review (the more conservative paper) as a columnist.
Stanford's AI Lab is helping to restore credibility to the field
But the work of a small team of researchers at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is helping to restore credibility to the field.
patriotblog.com   (1873 words)

  
 10 Ideas
That’s something no one can ever know, but there were 50 of them and one of me; if my answer is wrong, their answers would have been wrong.
Three months earlier, in my first quarter as graduate student at Stanford, in the Lab at the top of the hill, just before a volleyball game, I asked John McCarthy - the John McCarthy - whether I could have an office at the Lab and be supported by it.
The Lab being SAIL, the Stanford AI Lab, and I having been assigned elsewhere, in that dusty summer of 1975, with the sharp fragrance of volleyball-courtside tarweed splattered on a background of eucalyptus; hot and dry.
www.dreamsongs.com /10ideas.html   (3846 words)

  
 The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence, Hans Moravec, Stanford AI Lab, 1975   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
My favorite fantasies include the "electronics" of super-dense matter, either made of muonic atoms, where the electrons are replaced by more massive negative particles or of atoms constructed of magnetic monopoles which (if they exist) are very massive and affect each other more strongly than electric charges.
In the early days of AI the thought that existing machines might be much too small was widespread, but there was hope that clever mathematics and advancing computer technology could soon make up the difference.
Many of the most influential names in the field seem to feel that AI should be like the theoretical side of physics, the essential problem being to find the laws of universe relating to intelligence.
lispmeister.com /blosxom/AI/moravec-raw-power.html   (11339 words)

  
 Computer History Exhibits Inventory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stanford AI Modem (a new Rs232 connector should be attached)
Platter from AI Lab 40 MBYTE Librascope disk unit shown with 20MB hard disk drive 1.4 floppy drive (G36).
from AI Lab Sail Keyboard in case (phototour) Sail Keyboard in case (orig.
www.db.stanford.edu /pub/voy/museum/inventory.html   (1586 words)

  
 AI Lab people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
remote corner of the Stanford Campus from 1965 to 1991.
Collected as part of the Stanford Computer History Exhibits during a celebration of Don Knuth's 64th (1 000 000 base 2's) birthday, 2002.
The building and the site were donated to Stanford University by G.T.E., after they decided to cancel the planned corporate research lab adjacent to Stanford.
www.db.stanford.edu /pub/voy/museum/pictures/AIlab/list.html   (218 words)

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