The MAPGEN system represents a successful mission infusion of mixed-initiative planning technology. MAPGEN was deployed as a mission-critical component of the ground operations system for the Mars Exploration Rover mission. Each day, the ground-planning personnel employ MAPGEN to collaboratively plan the activities of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, with the objective of achieving as much science as possible while ensuring rover safety and keeping within the limitations of the rovers' resources. The Mars Exploration Rover mission has now been operating for more than two years, and MAPGEN continues to be employed for activity plan generation for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. During the multiyear deployment effort and subsequent mission operations experience, we have learned valuable lessons regarding application of mixed-initiative planning technology to mission operations.

You can use Google's Home to cast Spotify (and other streaming music services) to your sound system with Chromecast using voice commands. The instructions for how to do this provided by both Google and Spotify assume you have either a Chromecast-equipped TV or Chromecast Audio. You can use the base Chromecast to cast both audio and video. Here's how to do it. If it's a new Chromecast, set it up using the Google Home app on a mobile device or laptop.

Imagine an alarm clock that factors traffic conditions into your wake-up time. Or an artificially intelligent office manager that seeks and presents you with information that might be useful for your current project. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is infused into everything around us, it will transform our everyday experiences. With an estimated 50 billion connected devices by 2020, the physical world is quickly coming online. And as smart objects, devices, and machines become connected to the Internet, our control over the physical world will continue to grow.

When we reviewed the Amazon Echo last year, we hailed it as the best home-based voice-controlled product at the consumer level. It's become even more versatile and powerful since then. It can control your home's smart lighting, lock your smart lock, play music, provide weather forecasts, order a pizza, and more. This affordable, always-on personal assistant can manage not only your home, but much of your digital life. It's so useful, we predicted many folks would want more than one Echo in their home.

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The MAPGEN system represents a successful mission infusion of mixed-initiative planning technology. MAPGEN was deployed as a mission-critical component of the ground operations system for the Mars Exploration Rover mission. Each day, the ground-planning personnel employ MAPGEN to collaboratively plan the activities of the "Spirit and "Opportunity rovers, with the objective of achieving as much science as possible while ensuring rover safety and keeping within the limitations of the rovers' resources. The Mars Exploration Rover mission has now been operating for more than two years, and MAPGEN continues to be employed for activity plan generation for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. During the multiyear deployment effort and subsequent mission operations experience, we have learned valuable lessons regarding application of mixed-initiative planning technology to mission operations. These lessons have spawned new research in mixed-initiative planning and have influenced the design of a new ground operations system, called M-SLICE, that is baselined for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. In this article, we discuss the mixed-initiative aspects of the MAPGEN system, focusing on the task, control, and awareness issues.

MITAP (MITRE text and audio processing) is a prototype system available for monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and other global events. MITAP focuses on providing timely, multilingual, global information access to medical experts and individuals involved in humanitarian assistance and relief work. Multiple information sources in multiple languages are automatically captured, filtered, translated, summarized, and categorized by disease, region, information source, person, and organization. Critical information is automatically extracted and tagged to facilitate browsing, searching, and sorting. The system supports shared situational awareness through collaboration, allowing users to submit other articles for processing, annotate existing documents, post directly to the system, and flag messages for others to see. MITAP currently stores over 1 million articles and processes an additional 2,000 to 10,000 daily, delivering up-to-date information to dozens of regular users.

We show the similarity between belief propagation and TAP, for decoding corrupted messages encoded by Sourlas's method.

We show the similarity between belief propagation and TAP, for decoding corrupted messages encoded by Sourlas's method.

We show the similarity between belief propagation and TAP, for decoding corrupted messages encoded by Sourlas's method.