This article contains a description of an AI project which was awarded the “Best Poster Award” by the public at the University of Michigan AI Symposium 2019. Machine learning techniques, especially deep learning, have been widely applied to solve a variety of problems ranging from classifying email spam to detecting...
Prof. Benjamin Kuipers recommends: I am currently reading a sequence of three books by Michael Tomasello that I think say something important about the contribution of different kinds of cooperation and collaboration to human success, individually and as a species. The books are: A Natural History of Human Thinking (2014)...
This is an interview with Dr. Wiens, who is affiliated with the Michigan AI Lab and is also a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation. Jenna Wiens, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science. Her research focuses on developing the computational methods needed...
Scene from the movie “Robot and Frank”, in which Frank’s son gets Frank a robot companion to take care of him. Personal robots are more and more in the media spotlight including movies. Owning a personal robot, your very own maid or butler that has it all, is everyone’s dream....
This is an interview with Professor Emily Mower Provost that was first published by The Michigan Engineer News Center. Emily Mower Provost, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, speaks at the Ada Lovelace Opera: A Celebration of Women in Computing event. Photo: Joseph Xu Using machine learning to...
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory was founded in 1988 as an outgrowth of the Computer Vision Research Lab (CVRL) as faculty involved in other aspects of AI had joined Michigan. Ramesh Jain was its first Director, and the initial faculty members included Lynn Conway, Ed Durfee, John Holland, Keki Irani, Ramesh...
What is the first thing you think of when you see the word “mouse”? What about when you see “dairy”? Most likely you all gave pretty different answers for the two word prompts above. Now what about “cake”? What word comes to mind? I can guess that most of you...
Consider for a moment the complexity of human language. Humans can effortlessly process nuanced expressions such as simile (“cool as a cucumber”), sarcasm (“Just great! I failed that test”), and allusion (“don’t be such a Scrooge”). Our vocabulary is also changing – in March 2018, 850 new words were added...
