At a time when the US and China are divided on everything from economics to human rights, artificial intelligence is still a point of particular friction. With the potential to revolutionize everything from food production and health care to financial markets and surveillance, it's a technology that sparks both optimism and paranoia. One of the field's most influential figures is Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, whose education and professional life have straddled the world's two biggest economies. China-born and Harvard-trained, Yao is his country's only recipient of the Turing Award, computer science's equivalent of a Nobel Prize. After almost 40 years in the US, he returned to China in 2004.

At a time when the US and China are divided on everything from economics to human rights, artificial intelligence is still a point of particular friction. With the potential to revolutionise everything from food production and health care to financial markets and surveillance, it's a technology that sparks both optimism and paranoia. One of the field's most influential figures is Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, whose education and professional life have straddled the world's two biggest economies. China-born and Harvard-trained, Yao is his country's only recipient of the Turing Award, computer science's equivalent of a Nobel Prize. After almost 40 years in the US, he returned to China in 2004.

Caroline Grace has always enjoyed vintage technology. An IT tech in the Mid-Ohio Valley, they collect retro games, laser discs and cassette tapes, but mostly, vinyl records. Their collection is in the thousands, and hundreds of those are video game soundtracks. "I've been a big fan of games all my life," says Grace. "Some of my earliest memories are playing games like Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap and Goof Troop with my dad and brother. I get positive feelings from listening to the Wonder Boy III music now. I have a lot of pleasant memories of playing it with my family back in the day."

More and more businesses are moving into an era wherein artificial intelligence (AI) is a component of every new initiative. One such tool called emotion AI analyzes facial expressions based on a person's faceprint to find their goals, attitudes, and interior emotions. The "basic emotions" theory, which asserts that people all over the world express the same six basic internal emotional states (happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, anger, and sadness) through their facial expressions, which are influenced by our biological and evolutionary origins, is the foundation of this application, which is also known as emotion AI or affective computing. This idea sounds logical on the surface because nonverbal communication heavily relies on facial expressions. Emotion AI is an emerging technology that "allows a computer and systems to identify, process, and simulate human feelings and emotions," according to a recent report by tech industry research firm AIMultiple.

To the right, search space, where all states with the same initial-state distance (g) and estimated goal distance (h) are represented by a single binary decision diagram (to the left), and only those whose g h solution cost need to be considered. Daniel Fišer, Álvaro Torralba and Joerg Hoffmann won an outstanding paper runners-up award at AAAI 2022 for their paper Operator-potential heuristics for symbolic search. Here, Álvaro tells us more about the field of optical planning, their methodology, and how potential heuristics can be used in symbolic search with very positive results. At a very general level, the research is on automated planning. This is a sub-area of AI where we try to answer the question: what is the best way to act given our knowledge of the world?

FICO, the leading provider of analytics and decision management technology, together with Google and academics at UC Berkeley, Oxford, Imperial, UC Irvine and MIT, have announced the winners of the first xML Challenge at the 2018 NeurIPS workshop on Challenges and Opportunities for AI in Financial Services. Participants were challenged to create machine learning models with both high accuracy and explainability using a real-world dataset provided by FICO. Sanjeeb Dash, Oktay Gu nlu k and Dennis Wei, representing IBM Research, were this year's challenge winners. The winning team received the highest score in an empirical evaluation method that considered how useful explanations are for a data scientist with the domain knowledge in the absence of model prediction, as well as how long it takes for such a data scientist to go through the explanations. For their achievements, the IBM team earned a $5,000 prize.

Francesco Petruccione was born in 1961 in Genova (Italy). He studied Physics at the University of Freiburg i. Br. and received his PhD in 1988. He was conferred the "Habilitation" degree (Dr. In 2004 he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), in Durban (South Africa). In 2005 he was awarded an Innovation Fund grant to set up a Centre for Quantum Technology.

"How big is the universe?" asks Alicia Nash as her face beamed with curiosity and allure. I know because all the data indicates it's infinite," answers John Forbes Nash Jr. with confidence even though there is no evidence to support his statement. "I don't; I just believe it," he says with a rather innocent smile. Though Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind focused loosely on Nobel prize winner John Forbes Nash's battle with schizophrenia, it did point to his unique ability to see patterns where no patterns exist. He viewed the world in a different light, and that was all he needed to make his mark in history. NICE Actimize is a software company that helps its customers in combating financial crimes.

ACM fellow Dana Stewart Scott, the recipient jointly with Michael Rabin of the 1976 A.M. Turing Award for the concept of nondeterministic finite automata, has made seminal contributions spanning computing science, mathematics, philosophy, automata theory, modal logic, model theory, set theory, and the theory of programming languages. After receiving a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1950, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1958, he held faculty positions at the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, and at Stanford, Princeton, Oxford, and Carnegie Mellon Universities. He retired as University Professor from CMU in 2003. The distinguished theoretical computer scientist Gordon Plotkin conducted a series of four oral history interviews of Scott between November 2020 and February 2021. The interviews, the transcripts and videos of which are online,a cover primarily the period leading up to the 1976 ACM A.M. Turing Award. Presented here is a condensed and highly edited version, which includes some additional post-interview material provided by Scott. I was born in 1932 in Berkeley, CA, where I am now in retirement. We lived on a farm near Susanville when I started first grade in a one-room school-house.

The Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) is home to many talented students from across campus, representing all six of Georgia Tech's colleges and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). These students have diverse backgrounds and a wide variety of interests both inside and outside of the classroom. Today, we'd like you to meet Cusuh Ham, a first-year machine learning Ph.D. student who hopes to live abroad after graduation and ultimately become a professor. Tell us about your research interests. Where might people be impacted by them in everyday life?