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Issue 16	October 14, 2010
This newsletter is for thinking people who has any interest in Artificial Intelligence Welcome! Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic     Google's modified Toyota Prius uses an array of sensors to navigate public roads without human drivers. Read full story Body Sensing Comes to Smartphones     Body sensors linked to smartphones can now create full-body monitors as BodyMedia’s armbands communicate with Bluetooth-enabled smartphones. Click here Berkeley Bionic’s eLEGS Allow Paraplegics To Walk Again   A whole new generation of paraplegics may be able to stand up and walk away from their wheelchairs. Exoskeleton developers Berkeley Bionics recently unveiled their eLEGS system, a lower body robotic system that allows paralyzed users to stand up and walk on their own. Click here DoCoMo Shows Prototype Augmented Reality Display   NTT DoCoMo has developed a tiny display that clips onto a pair of eyeglasses and provides navigation services or information about local shops. The prototype system, called AR Walker, includes a gyro sensor that can detect which way the wearer is facing to provide directions. It connects wirelessly to a mobile phone, which runs the software and provides the GPS data.   Click here NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning   Can computers learn to read? . "Read the Web" is a research project that attempts to create a computer system that learns over time to read the web. The Never-Ending Language Learning system, or NELL, has made an impressive showing so far. NELL scans hundreds of millions of Web pages for text patterns that it uses to learn facts, 390,000 to date, with an estimated accuracy of 87 percent. These facts are grouped into semantic categories — cities, companies, sports teams, actors, universities, plants and 274 others. NELL also learns facts that are relations between members of two categories Click here Your vital signs, on camera   MIT-Harvard graduate student Ming-Zher Poh has demonstrated a system that can extract accurate pulse measurements from ordinary low-resolution webcam imagery. Click here Elevator Pitch: ExpertMaker will be next generation of search     With ExpertMaker's tools it is easy for any company to build their own microsearch engine that gives almost human-like advice and recommendations. In addition the tools can be used for a lot of other things like diagnosis or handle information overload. Click here An Intelligent System for Maritime Surveillance Has Been Created Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a real application for maritime surveillance that is able to integrate and unify the information from different types of sensors and data in context through artificial intelligence and data fusion techniques.   Click here Computers to Read Your Body Language? Forex Megadroid is a trading robot, which was developed by two professional Forex traders named Albert Perrie and John Grace. They have a combined experience of years in this field, and it is what drove to the creation of Megadroid. They intend to help traders ease the burdens of manual trading and help them make critical decisions while conducting trades.   Click here To subscribe  or  unsubscribe to this newsletter Click here Don't forget to write your email address to unsubscribe To   read  previous issues of Newsletter  Click here