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with any language. Also included is an advanced query language option where specific
sources can be selected, as well as other parameters to shape the query. The company's
team of mathematicians resides in Moscow, with sales offices in London, New York
and San Francisco. For information contact www.infotame.co.uk,
www.infotame.com or +44 20 7262 8797.
Science Foundation Grant for Relationships between Artificial
Intelligence Machines
Jin Tian, assistant
professor of computer science at Iowa State University was chosen for the Faculty
Early Career Awards by the National Science Foundation in the amount of $455,000
over the next five years. Tian's proposal focuses on causal reasoning, the analysis
of cause-and-effect communication relationships between artificial intelligence
machines. Causal Bayesian networks will be used to represent and reason about
causal relationships and to address topics such as axiomatizing causal reasoning,
model testing, identifying causal effects, and causal reasoning in structural
equation models. Theoretical foundations and mathematical models will be developed
to explore if artificial intelligence machines can act like humans. The research
will have applications in social and health science fields to analyze cause-and-effect
relationships, such as what medical treatments are the most effective in terms
of curing disease. www.cs.iastate.edu/people/
facultyview.jsp?fname=Jin Artificially Intelligent
Nursing
The University of Michigan's Artificial
Intelligence Lab is developing software called Autominder to power computerized
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caregivers, a future nurses' aide, to help the elderly or those who have suffered
brain trauma to perform tasks and navigate their surroundings. The software is
based on intelligent cognitive orthotics and would supplement human caregivers.
The software has been used in small hand-held computers and in a mobile robot
called Pearl, or Nursebot. The patient operates the device by touching or tapping
it when a task for which the reminder is brought up is completed. The goal is
to include motion and contact sensors to also warn people if water is left running
or a door is left open. Autominder uses artificial intelligence technology specific
to each user to send out personalized reminders |
