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Recent Advances in Cognitive Systems

Posted by timothy on from the smarter-than-me dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "ERCIM News is a quarterly publication from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. The April 2003 issue is dedicated to cognitive systems. It contains no less than 21 articles which are all available online. In this column, you'll find a summary of the introduction and what are the possible applications of these cognitive systems. There's also a picture of the cover, a little robot with a very nice looking blue wig. And in A Gallery of Cognitive Systems, you'll find a selection of stories, including links, abstracts and illustrations (the whole page weighs 217 KB). There are very good pictures of autonomous soccer robots, swarm bots, cognitive vision systems, and more."

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  1. The title reminds me of an article in AIR by Jonathan · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Annals of Improbable Research, the humor magazine for scientists, once had an article entitled "Advances in Artificial Intelligence". After the title and author affiliations, the page was appropriately completely blank...

  2. Maybe slashdot could use a cognitive system... by 1337_h4x0r · · Score: 4, Funny

    to detect dupes!

  3. Inspired by maharg · · Score: 3, Funny

    The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is by 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer

    Now THAT's a goal.

    Maybe we'll see humanoid robot referees in sports. That should stop any dissent from the players ,-}

    Player: C'mon ref, that was never in a million years a f**king penalty !!
    Ref: You have 3 seconds to comply..

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    @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
  4. Re:My vision by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    When you're 85, you can imagine you have a nice little holographic butler and nobody will really pay any attention to you...

  5. can't resist by StuartFreeman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Johnny five is alive!

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    This is my sig, there are many like it, but this one is mine...
  6. Slashdot *does* use a cognitive system.... by alienmole · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's called CmdrTaco. It's quite a sophisticated model in some respects, but it contains all sorts of spelling bugs and a strange fixation on anime and pr0n, sometimes at the same time (although only when MrsKathleenTaco isn't watching). Perhaps due in part to these irrelevant fixations, CmdrTaco's dupe-detection capability is notoriously flaky. This new cognitive research may finally allow CmdrTaco's pattern recognition systems to be upgraded, though.

    But don't get your hopes up - when they attempted to upgrade JonKatz with an expanded repertoire of once-wired-now-tired cliches, the result was disastrous, and the unit had to be retired. Some upgrades are simply beyond our current technology...