IBM's supercomputer Watson has won the best contestants on Jeopardy !, the popular American television question and answer contest, proving that machines can understand puns, interpret nuances of language and respond to humans.
The Biomedical Neuroengineering Group of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Alicante) has developed a brain-computer interface that allows a user to browse the Internet and handle computer applications using only thought. The results will be presented next April at one of the most important conferences in the world on Artificial Intelligence.
A consortium of European researchers coordinated by the Computer Vision Center (CVC) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) has developed 'Hermes', a system made up of video cameras and software that is capable of recognizing and predicting human behavior .
At the University of California they have developed a robot with the face of the physicist Albert Einstein who has learned to smile and perform other facial gestures in a "self-taught" way.
They are in luck in British schools. Researchers at the University of Durham have created a fully-touch virtual desktop in which images and objects are handled as comfortably as on the other side of the screen. Interactivity in its purest form.
"Intelligent machines will have emotions" 34-year-old from Alicante, Nuria Oliver studied telecommunications engineering in Madrid and received her doctorate in Massachusetts, where MIT has included her in the list of the 100 young leaders in global cybernetic research. He currently works at Microsoft Research, in Redmond (USA), where he investigates new applications for intelligent and sensitive machines.
From his position at the Sony Informatics Laboratory in Paris, Luc Steels, communication expert and author of several books on Artificial Intelligence, leads European research in this field.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
