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In computer science, the main outlets for peer-reviewed research are not journals but conferences, where accepted papers are presented in the form of talks or posters. In June, 2019, at a large artificial-intelligence conference in Long Beach, California, called Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, I stopped to look at a poster for a project called Speech2Face. Using machine learning, researchers had developed an algorithm that generated images of faces from recordings of speech. A neat idea, I thought, but one with unimpressive results: at best, the faces matched the speakers’ sex, age, and ethnicity attributes that a casual listener might guess. That December, I saw a similar poster at another large A.I. conference, Neural Information Processing Systems (Neur
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The AI4K12 Initiative s two-day virtual conference has helped spark new K-12 artificial intelligence efforts in several states.
A two-day virtual workshop organized by the AI4K12 Initiative involving education leaders from across the country has helped spark new K-12 artificial intelligence efforts in several states, said David Touretzky, research professor in computer science.
AI4K12 is developing national guidelines for teaching AI in elementary and secondary schools as a joint project of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), with funding from the National Science Foundation. Touretzky leads the initiative along with Christina Gardner-McCune of the University of Florida and Deborah Seehorn of the CSTA.
Prof. Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech was named among 10 individuals elevated to Fellow status by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
âAAAI is thrilled to announce the election of ten new Fellows for their lasting contributions to the breadth of #AI, including Planning, RL, Robotics, NLP, CBR and Vision The new fellows will be inducted (astrally) and felicitated (with secret hand-shake etc.) during #AAAI2021,â the association said in a tweet.
Goel is a professor of computer science and human-centered computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, his bio notes.
The Indian American professor received his Ph.D. in computer and information science from Ohio State University in 1989 and joined the Georgia Tech faculty the same year. At Georgia Tech, he has been a co-director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design (2008-18) and the director of the Ph.D. program in Human-Center
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TOKYO, Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Dr. Hiroaki Kitano, Executive Vice President, Officer in charge of AI Collaboration at Sony Corporation, President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and CEO of Sony AI Inc. has been named a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. In addition to his key roles in AI at Sony, Dr. Kitano is also the Founding Trustee of the RoboCup Federation, an international scientific initiative that was created to best promote research in the area of intelligent robotics and artificial intelligence, as well as related fields.
POTSDAM â Clarkson University Professor of Computer Science Chuck Thorpe has been named the chair of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers USA Research & Development Policy Committee.
The committee develops and disseminates positions on engineering and defense research and development policies and programs in the United States within the scope of, or affecting, IEEEâs technical expertise.
R&D Policy Committeeâs priorities include increasing federal investments in science and engineering R&D, including university research and education initiatives; advocating sound R&D technology policies that advance US technology industries; and revitalizing U.S. high-tech manufacturing, including appropriate incentives for businesses to locate R&D and manufacturing operations in the United States.