Artificial intelligence moves toward self directed robots
Dr Bruce Digney explains a shift in AI from chess style programs to self directed robots operating in unstructured worlds. PRAL loops sense reason act and learn form experience to adapt to new tasks while researchers at DRDC Suffield develop autonomous vehicles and teamwork capabilities for future general intelligent systems.
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Praxis
Bruce Digney
Drdc-Suffield
High schoolers build hockey robot for Canada FIRST Games
Fourty Sister High School students design a metre high robotic hockey player aiming to impress at the Canada FIRST Robotic Games in Toronto. The project combines simulated ice hockey play with a video presentation judged alongside 28 schools from across Canada.
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Winnipeg
NHL
Sister
Toronto
Canada
Subramaniam Balakrishnan
University of Manitoba
Olivia Macdonald Mayer
Mager
Microsoft Shows Resilience Amid Tech Slump
Microsoft posted a record revenue quarter and rolled out the Tablet PC and Xbox Live while winning court approval of a Justice Department antitrust settlement. The year featured MSN 8 redesign and a push into open standards as rivals like Sun, AOL Time Warner, and Oracle faced challenges.
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Seattle
Sun Microsystems
AOL Time Warner
Oracle
Microsoft
Bill Gates
Redmond
Wash
U.S. Justice Department
Matt Rosoff
Rosoff
Sun
U.S. District Court
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
West Virginia
Massachusetts
AOL
European Union
U.S
Brad Smith
Gates
IBM
Hewlett-Packard Co
Steve Ballmer
Bill Neukom
John Conners
Winnipeg lab ready to study Nipah virus in high containment facility
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency laboratory at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health in Winnipeg can now handle rare zoonotic diseases. The Level 4 unit, among only 13 worldwide, will study Nipah virus alongside Ebola and Lassa while continuing work in Level 2 and 3 labs on foot and mouth disease and avian influenza.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Canadian Science Centre
Hana Weingard
Malaysia
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