The mission of the AlphaDogFight trials is "essentially pushing the potential for automated aerial conflicts and boosting the trust military personnel need to have in AI systems." It's a three-day showdown that starts Aug. 18 between tech teams picked from around the country, each vying for bragging rights when it comes to the ultimate dogfighting algorithm. However, those teams -- Aurora Flight Sciences, EpiSys Science, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Heron Systems, Lockheed Martin, Perspecta Labs, PhysicsAI and SoarTech -- first need to test their wizardry against five artificial intelligence platforms created by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. The second day involves round-robin competitions to determine the final four. Those winners square off against each other until a winner is determined.

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Note from the editor of this site: In the United States, there are over 700 colleges with less than 3K (3000) students. Many of these colleges are totally overlooked in the college search process. This website is devoted to these wonderful small colleges that totally transform the lives of their graduates. I recently retired from 42 years in the College Admission profession. All 42 years were at small, private, colleges.

More than 4,400 exhibitors showed off their hardware at CES 2018. That's a lot of gadgets, and the show can become an unmanageable circus if you don't enter with a game plan--and that counts for people following the action at home, as well. To give you a little head start, here's our cheat sheet on what to look for at CES 2019. It's pretty easy to predict what AMD will be revealing at CES--because the company has already told us. AMD chief executive Lisa Su will host a keynote address on Wednesday, Jan. 9 where she'll talk up the company's 2019 plans to "catapult computing, gaming, and visualization technologies forward with the world's first 7nm high-performance CPUs and GPUs."

On Friday, the social networking giant is announcing the opening of a new AI research lab, its fourth, in the Canadian city. Led by Joelle Pineau, an expert in the areas of dialogue systems and reinforcement learning, and a professor at McGill University in Montreal, the lab is expected to grow from an initial team of 10–including interns–to about 30 within a couple of years. Among those behind Montreal's emergence as a leader in AI research is University of Montreal professor and director of the school's Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms Yoshua Bengio, a pioneer in deep learning. "Facebook is clearly a leader in AI," Bengio said in a statement, "and the creation [of] Facebook's AI lab here is going to contribute to the expansion of Montreal as an international hub for AI, an ecosystem joining universities [and] established companies as well as startups." Pineau, who plans on maintaining her affiliation with McGill–and who will split her time evenly between the university and Facebook–said her team's mandate is to develop the next generation of artificial intelligence technology, particularly in the areas of computer vision, natural language, and video analysis.