Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson explains the new smart camper. Are you one of those people who would consider going camping if you didn't have to rough it too much? You might be more of the "glamping" type. That's where the Pebble Flow all-electric camper comes in, although, this is not your ordinary camper. It can do just about everything for you, so you get the best of both worlds and enjoy the outdoors without giving up any comforts or conveniences.

Anaya Bussey didn't know much about "artificial intelligence" when she arrived at a camp at Princeton University earlier this summer other than that "it was definitely blowing up." But after just three weeks here she and other students--all incoming high school juniors--teamed up to use the technology to help diagnose melanoma by looking at skin lesions. Bussey, 15, who is from the Bronx borough in New York City, has been interested in computer science since she was in elementary school. But there have been times when she's been one of only a handful of girls--or black students--in a computer class or program. That wasn't the case at the Princeton summer camp, run by AI4ALL, a two-year-old nonprofit that seeks to increase diversity and inclusion in AI education, research, and policy.

A photo from a summer camp posted to the camp's website so parents can view them. Venture capital-backed Waldo Photos has been selling the service to identify specific children in the flood of photos provided daily to parents by many sleep-away camps. Camps working with the Austin, Texas-based company give parents a private code to sign up. When the camp uploads photos taken during activities to its website, Waldo's facial recognition software scans for matches in the parent-provided headshots. Once it finds a match, the Waldo system (as in "Where's Waldo?") then automatically texts the photos to the child's parents.

Two years ago, our nonprofit started a tradition of releasing large public datasets for researchers and data scientists. And today I'm thrilled to announce the release of our biggest open dataset yet. Gitter.im is an open source chat platform designed specifically with open source in mind. Unlike Slack or Discord, Gitter is truly public. Anyone can join a chatroom, and anyone can observe a chatroom without even needing to create a Gitter account. Gitter also has a robust public API, which we've used to export 3 years of chat history -- more than 5 million messages -- into a few conveniently-organized files.

Toyota took the wraps off a new self-driving transportation concept at CES, and it can be anything from a pizza delivery van to a camper for your next vacation. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Toyota took the wraps off a new self-driving transportation concept at CES, and it can be anything from a pizza delivery van to a camper for your next vacation.

On the very first day of Wolfram Camp, I called Stephen Wolfram "Steve." "It's Stephen, actually," said the world's most controversial physicist in his crisp-yet-droll British accent. In another life, the creator of Wolfram Alpha would have made an excellent BBC Radio News announcer. "No one under the age of 50 calls me Steve," he added. Katie Orenstein is a New York City-based writer, programmer, and thespian who moonlights as a high school senior.

As SAILORS returns for the second summer, the new campers are giddy with excitement. After grabbing breakfast and getting to know one another, the girls situate themselves in a lecture room in the Gates Computer Science building at Stanford University. Professor Fei-Fei Li, director of the SAILORS program and the AI Lab as a whole, warmly welcomes the campers to the summer program, imparting the grounds on which the idea of an all-girls, two-week research-intensive program came about just two years ago. Though Professor Li acknowledges the recent talk of the possibility of AI becoming the "terminator next door" that some critics of the field fear, that was exactly what swayed her, along with co-director Olga Russakovsky, to feel the desperate need of bringing more females into the field of AI. Because, as Prof. Li puts it, when we have women who gravitate AI towards humanity–women who are compassionate, who care about AI safety–the potential benefits from the societal impact far outweigh the prospect of AI coming to dominate the world.