How a 1993 plan to launch ads into space turned into a national freakout. In the 1990s, space was for sale. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. In 1993, Mike Lawson, an aerospace entrepreneur based in Roswell, Georgia, unveiled his vision for a brave new future of advertising: space billboards. This wasn't a half-baked scheme: Lawson had meticulous plans for a proposed 1996 launch: His team of engineers would shoot a package of tightly-wound mylar into orbit about 180 miles above the Earth.

As these teachers have come to understand, you don't have to be technically minded to introduce your students to the important concepts behind artificial intelligence. When computer science teacher Sharon Harrison wanted to introduce her eighth graders to the basic idea of artificial intelligence, she had them try out an online chatbot called Akinator, which asks the user questions to determine what historic or fictional character he or she is thinking of. In some instances, the students marveled at how quickly the program could figure out the answer. "Sometimes it would guess in three or four guesses, and we'd say, 'How on earth was it able to do that?'" From there, the discussion in this elective class at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools examined how responses to the chatbot could be sabotaged -- by responding to the questions incorrectly, and thereby "damage the integrity of the program."

JUDY WOODRUFF: Now we continue our special series on Rethinking College with a look at graduate students who pay little or even nothing for a top 10 master's degree program. HARI SREENIVASAN: It's graduation day, and these two students are earning their computer science master's degree from a top 10 program in the country. But it's the first time they have ever visited campus. VANESSA ANDERSON, Graduate: This whole experience was very surreal. This is my first time on campus, being here.

Participants Intelligence (AAAI-15) and the Twenty-Seventh Conference in the AAAI-15 Robotics Exhibition and the on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence AAAI-15 Video Competition are encouraged to contribute (IAAI-15) will be held January 25-29 at the to the Demonstration Program with their systems, Hyatt Regency Austin in Austin, Texas, USA. AAAI is working October 8 (Papers Due) closely with the local AI community to create opportunities The Senior Member Track provides an opportunity for attendees to experience AI in Texas! Attendees for established researchers in the AI community to can also enjoy nearly 200 music venues that feature give a broad talk on a well-developed body of everything from rock and blues to country and research, an important new research area, or a promising jazz every night of the week. Austin cuisine has new topic. This year, new "Blue Sky Ideas" track expanded from barbecue and Tex-Mex to award-winning is seeking presentations aimed at presenting ideas and inventive international cuisine, and blossomed and visions that can stimulate the research community beyond brick-and-mortar restaurants to a to pursue new directions, such as new problems, vibrant, citywide food truck movement.

SOAR is one of the oldest and largest AI development efforts, starting formally in 1983. It has also been proposed as a unified theory of cognition (Newell 1990). Most of its current development is as an AI programming language, which was evident at the Twenty-Second SOAR Workshop held at Soar Technology near the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on 1-2 June 2002.

Digital Warriors -- Artificial Intelligence the group sought white papers included: a Time. May Help Spot Future Terrorism Attacks. The have the time to follow developments in patterns and spot trouble. But he is catching up. says a well-designed computer program "Scientists at Kingston University The first corporate board Walesa, 58, has can do what humans do, and maybe even in London have developed software agreed to join is that of NuTech Solutions, do a better job at it. '[It's] the same as a able to anticipate if someone is about to a closely held company founded three '[It] investigates years ago in Charlotte, N.C., by a pair of It works by examining images coming leads, forms hypotheses, and narrows Polish immigrants. The software, called Cromatica, FBI's Most Wanted: New IT Priorities joined NuTech primarily because he is passionate And if it is 2002 (zdnet.com.com). "On NBC's'Meet which he is studying avidly.