INTERNET WORLD Spring
Artificial Intelligence Forum
April 22, 2002 | Los Angeles
The latest
installment of IN3's groundbreaking AI Forum kicked off the INTERNET WORLD Spring
conference in Los Angeles.
As the Internet becomes a better
organized information system with standard protocols and knowledge management tools, human
online interaction is being augmented by automated intelligent agents and bots that help
us find things more easily, shop and buy more profitably and collaborate more closely with
dispersed resources on the World Wide Web. Examine the opportunities that smarter systems
promise across the entire range of Internet applications.
Forum Moderator:
Jack Powers, Director, IN3.ORG
Monday, April 22
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM AI and the Pervasive Net
The goals of early academic AI
researchers, dedicated and hand-coded programs that mimic human thought, are being
surpassed by more practical intelligent systems that take advantage of the latest open
hardware and software architectures and the abundant real-time data on the Internet.
Examine the emerging distributed Internet architectures like Web services and grid
computing and chart the opportunities for machine intelligence in the growth of the
Internet everywhere.
Learn about the principal tools and
techniques of artificial intelligence for the Internet. See how expert systems, machine
learning, natural language processing, neural networks and genetic algorithms operate and
how they are being applied in successful Web-based applications. Understand the
limitations and the potential of AI in practice, and chart your company's strategy for
exploring intelligent systems.
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM AI Case Study:
Driving Speech into Telematics
Moderator:
Jack Powers, Director, IN3.ORG
Panelists:
Dr. Jane McFarlane, ONSTAR.com
Alan Schwartz, Head of Automotive Mobile Devices, Speechworks
Phil Shinn, Speech Scientist, HeyAnita
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Introduction to the Semantic Web
Web visionary Tim Berners-Lee has
sketched out the next stage of Internet evolution, the construction of the "Semantic
Web" in which knowledge is represented in a carefully structured form that
communicates meaning to intelligent systems. Learn the basic components of the semantic
Web _ XML, the Resource Description Framework (RDF), ontologies, Composite Capability/
Preference Profiles (CC/PP) and more _ and envision the future of a Web that processes
meaning as well as data.
Jack Powers, Director, IN3.ORG
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM AI Content Roundtable
The massive volumes of text,
graphics and multimedia need powerful new tools to be sorted, categorized and searched
effectively. Innovative developers describe their approaches to applying AI to the growing
digital mountains of Internet content.
Classifying the Web
Harold Kester, CTO and Vice President, Websense
Extracting Knowledge from
Unstructured Content
Gil Elbaz, Co-Founder & CTO, Applied Semantics
Creating and Managing Agents
Steven Minton, Founder & CTO, Fetch Technologies
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM AI Commerce Roundtable
Shopping bots and auction bots are streamlining Web buying and selling, and a new
generation of intelligent agents is driving new levels of personalization, assisting in
online shopping and performing customer service to make e-commerce friendlier.
The New Language of Customer
Interaction
Paul S. Jacobs, CTO, Primus
Crunching for Dollars
A.I. takes aim at Wall Street techreview.com
Machines
Are Filling In for Troops
Targets will be destroyed by weapons from pilotless vehicles that can distinguish
friends from foes without consulting humans. nytimes.com(Registration required)
Such a
Comfort to Grandma, and He Runs on Double-A's University of
Washington supported by the National Science Foundation, researchers are investigating the
psychological effects of robotic dogs on the lives of the elderly. nytimes.com
New Technology Called
'Haptics' Lets Users 'Feel' the Web
A player in a simulated car race might feel a jolt when his car
hits a wall or might feel vibrations and rumbles when it runs off a paved road onto
gravel. newsfactor.com
The Next Web
A rambling Business Week article idolizes Berners-Lee and offers up a good "semantic
web for managers." BusinessWeek Online
Neural Net
Diagnoses Colon Tumors
Researchers "trained" an artificial neural network to recognize the two types of
colon cancer, and then gave it information from 12 samples it had never seen. It made the
correct diagnosis in all 12 cases. sciencedaily.com
The
Pilot, Gone.
The Market, Huge.
Far more sophisticated than the Predator surveillance planes flying over Afghanistan, the
X-45 is being designed as a full-fledged attack plane. nytimes.com(Registration required.)
Are
You Being Served? A new breed of customer service agents
will be so attentive to your needs that you’ll never guess you’re talking to
software. technewsreview.com
Text-Mining Technology Sorts Data the Smart Way When deluged by mail, to sort and
interpret quickly and smartly, the key is not only the ability to find words and
numbers, but also to put them in logical contexts, so that none of your clients' questions
go unanswered. cmdaily.com
AI analyzes TV ads
A Baltimore startup aims to predict the demand for advertising time and set rates more
precisely. Potomac Tech Journal
Artificial
Intelligence in Entertainment
Notes for a keynote talk on Pervasive Video for the National Association of
Broadcasters conference April 9. [Courseware]
An Interview with Rodney Brooks, director of MIT’s AI
Lab Pervasive computing with sensors and microprocessors wired into
cars, offices and homes—and carried in shirt pockets—retrieve information and
communicate through text, speech and gesture
interfaces. techreview.com
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