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LAS VEGAS – While finished products get most of the attention at the annual CES consumer electronics show, "ingredient technologies" are the unsung heroes, setting the stage for exciting new devices and services in the years ahead. X Two of those "ingredient technologies" being touted at CES 2018 are 5G wireless and artificial intelligence, officials say. "5G and AI are heralds for the coming data age," said Steve Koenig, senior director of research for the Consumer Technology Association, owner and sponsor of CES, which opened Tuesday and runs through Friday. "CES is going to set the pace for that." It will fuel new services and technologies such as the Internet of Things, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles and smart cities.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Md.) has developed the The system is designed to capture and maintain key scientific knowledge while it reduces common errors made by outside scientists. Johnson Controls (Milwaukee, Wis.), a manufacturer of control products used to monitor buildings, has deployed an intelligent agent-based knowledge-retrieval solution at its help desk to provide fast access to support information. Chester, N.Y.) to improve its ability to match reported wage information. The solution will help the agency match contribution information supplied by employers to an employee's Social Security account. RoyScot Trust, the asset finance arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland), has implemented an expert system-based solution to automate the credit-underwriting process.

These diseases can affect people (West Nile virus, HIV, Ebola, Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis), animals (foot-and-mouth disease), and plants (citrus canker in Florida). More recently, the potential of biological terrorism has become a very real threat. On 11 September 2001, the Center for Disease Control alerted states and local public health agencies to monitor for any unusual disease patterns, including the effects of chemical and biological agents (figure 1). In addition to possible disruption and loss of life, bioterrorism could foment political instability, given the panic that fast-moving plagues have historically engendered. Appropriate response to disease outbreaks and emerging threats depends on obtaining reliable and up-to-date information, which often means monitoring many news sources, particularly local news sources, in many languages worldwide.

The software combines a broad search of online news sources with topic-specific trained models and heuristics. Since August 2010, the program has been used to operate the AI in the News service that is part of the AAAI AITopics website. The goal for NewsFinder is to publish a small, select set of news stories that are of general interest to the AI community and to provide categorization metadata to help readers scan for stories that match their specific interests. A news story may be assigned to a single category or to multiple categories (for example, Robots and Vision). Google News is driven by readers' queries to find stories containing a set of keywords from thousands of news sources.

For many, scheduling time was probably the biggest challenge because the conference included numerous invited speakers, 189 technical paper presentations, 93 posters, a Mobile Robot Competition, 19 Innovative Applications of AI (IAAI) award-winning paper presentations, a Trading Agents Competition, a special track on AI and the web, and the vendor exhibit. Where Is AI Having an Impact? Frequently, many of us in the AI community get asked, "Where is AI being used these days?" There were several high-impact applications discussed at IJCAI that provided excellent new information to answer such queries, including Google News and a NASDAQ surveillance tool that detects insider trading and fraud. Google News, which is used several million times a day, employs several AI techniques to automatically generate and refresh the news from 4,500 news sources.

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One of the roles of AI Magazine is to keep readers informed about the practical impact of AI research. One year ago, articles in the magazine described two robotics challenge domains, RoboCup rescue and urban search and rescue, both designed to promote research related to robotic agents for disaster search and rescue. In the tragic aftermath of the World Trade Center attack, research experiments were replaced by reality as search and rescue robots moved into the field, assisting in the World Trade Center rescue efforts. The current issue includes an article discussing lessons from this experience. For many AAAI members, the first news of the robot rescue efforts came from AI Alert, a AAAI service that distributes selected items from the AI in the News page on AAAI's AI Topics web site.

If we want to understand an event in depth, from multiple perspectives, we need to aggregate multiple sources and understand the relations between them. However, current news aggregators do not offer this kind of functionality. As a step toward a solution, we propose DiversiNews, a real-time news aggregation and exploration platfom whose main feature is a novel set of controls that allow users to contrast reports of a selected event based on topical emphases, sentiment differences, and/or publisher geolocation. News events are presented in the form of a ranked list of articles pertaining to the event and an automatically generated summary. Both the ranking and the summary are interactive and respond in real time to user's change of controls.

AI technology was employed to present the right information efficiently to each reader and to reduce radically the workload of curators. The system went through three implementation cycles and processed more than 20 million news stories from about 12,000 Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds on more than 8000 topics organized by 160 curators for more than 600 registered readers. This article describes the approach, engineering, and AI technology of the system. It is hard to keep up on what matters. The limiting factor is not the amount of information available but our available attention (Simon 1971).