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Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL
Talkback "Artificial Intelligence" will always be just that: *Artificial*. The reason is simple: As magnificent as any computer might get, including those in the future which will drive walking, talking, synthetic flesh-bound robots, they will still have...
[March 29, 2006, 0:21]
Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL
Talkback Greetings Nick Hampshire In response to your ongoing 3-part article on AI, I am writing to alert you to the newly issued U.S.patent concerning ethical artificial intelligence titled: Inductive Inference Affective Language
[March 28, 2006, 6:26]
Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL
Talkback Only when systems have the opportunity to exercise “reason” will they evolve to the next level (HAL-like). Reasoning Systems In my opinion, the future of AI is dependent on the extension of the programming paradigm from today’s Boolean logic to...
[April 3, 2006, 16:54]
Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL
News This was the era in which there was also much speculation about the impact of intelligent computers, computers like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The phrase 'artificial intelligence' was first coined by John McCarthy at a conference at Dartmouth...
[March 27, 2006, 15:40]
GNOME 2.12 Improves Hardware Integration
News More applications in GNOME 2.12 take advantage of the hardware abstraction layer (HAL), allowing them to offer seamless hardware support, said Madeley. HAL-aware applications can display more information to the user, as well as benefit from 'it...
[September 8, 2005, 17:55]
Scientists Teach Computer To Speak
News In contrast to these previous attempts, HAL is designed to learn language for itself. Ironically, because HAL is not programmed with hard and fast rules, just basic learning ability, Hutchens cannot know how exactly HAL processes language.
[April 12, 2001, 15:38]
Realizing The Benefits Of N1 - Step 1: Getting Ready
White Papers Join two Chief Architects from Sun Professional Services -- Hal Stern, Vice President and Jim Baty, Distinguished Engineer - as they explain how to prepare for the future of data center computing. Provisioning on the fly.
[October 22, 2003, 0:00]
The Day Ahead: CFO Search Hover Over Red Hat Earnings
News In July, Red Hat Chief Financial Officer Hal Covert resigned to go to SGI. Hal was a good operations CFO. When Red Hat reports its fiscal second quarter earnings Thursday analysts will be looking for the subtle items that may indicate the Linux...
[September 13, 2000, 11:19]
Hackers Dig In For Euro Festival
News Just like at HIP97, the authorities have pre-signed orders ready and waiting to cut our link to the world if the HAL network becomes a source of too many problems," reads the warning on the site. Hackers at Large (HAL) is the latest in a series of...
[August 7, 2001, 16:46]
Comdex: Top 10 Wackiest New Products (6-10)
News Some people might be a bit wary of having a computer that responds to the name HAL residing in their homes, but this gem from Home Automated Living has more prosaic ideas than its namesake. HAL consists of software, a powerline interface, a serial...
[November 20, 1997, 13:27]
Smart Chips Get Under Our Skin
News The mystique and fear surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) tends to focus on the idea of sentient machines somehow challenging man's role on earth, conjuring up images of HAL, the softly spoken computer with malicious intent.
[January 23, 2001, 14:08]
Sun Sets Up Open Source Office
News Simon Phipps, already Sun's open source officer, will lead the Open Source Office and report to Hal Stern, software chief technology officer. Sun Microsystems on Wednesday night launched an office dedicated to open source matters, signalling a new...
[August 19, 2005, 11:15]
Intelligent Machines Threaten Humankind
News Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking science fiction film 2001 shows HAL, the computer aboard a mission to Jupiter deciding (itself) to do away with its human copilots. Science fiction has portrayed machines capable of thinking and acting for...
[January 23, 2001, 13:12]
AI Gets Down To Business
News We may not have a HAL-like computer system today, but AI is being used to enhance a wide variety of products and create new applications, and it is fuelling some of the latest hot Internet startups. An electronic butler that answers your questions...
[January 23, 2001, 14:20]
AMD Highlights Standards In Live Push
News Live PCs will come with 7.1 surround sound capabilities, for instance, said Hal Speed, a marketing architect for AMD. This week AMD will unveil its "Live" brand at the Consumer Electronics Show, which is about to get underway in Las Vegas.
[January 4, 2006, 8:40]
Sun Wants To Open Up N1
News The company hopes to complete the development kit in 12 to 18 months, said Hal Stern, chief technology officer for Sun's services division. Sun Microsystems is working on a mechanism to connect its N1 utility computing software to existing systems...
[December 23, 2003, 11:10]
Talking Computer Promises PC Revolution
News The project has been named HAL, after the self-aware computer in Stanley Kubrick's seminal film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which spoke directly to astronauts aboard a mission to Jupiter. An Israeli technology firm is claiming a breakthrough with a...
[March 1, 2001, 13:17]
Legacy Application Causing Regulatory Confusion
News Billy Hamilton-Stent, a director at Loudhouse Research, which undertook the study on behalf of Hal Knowledge Solutions, said, “The more IT organisations are asked to do in compliance and IT governance terms, the more they need to know what is...
[June 15, 2005, 17:40]
IBM Surveillance Could Monitor Borders
News This is not the HAL 9000. A new surveillance system that analyses video for intruders, or even a specific number-plate, is now ready for the mainstream market, IBM announced on Tuesday. The Smart Surveillance System (S3), available in conjunction...
[November 7, 2006, 9:26]
'Infowarfare' Part Of NATO Arsenal?
News The question is, how dependent is your adversary on the Net, and my sense here is, not a lot," said Hal Gershanoff, publisher and editor of the Journal of Electronic Defence in the US. The barrage of cruise missiles raining down on Yugoslavia in...
[March 26, 1999, 9:32]
