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Issue 18	NOvember 14, 2010
This newsletter is for thinking people who has any interest in Artificial Intelligence Welcome! Why ignoring artificial intelligence is virtual insanity     2010 is set to be the first credible year of virtual agents. Each month it is estimated that 40,000,000 virtual agent conversations take place across the world and we are expecting a major transition and expansion towards there use in the next 5 years. Virtual agents are also predicted to surpass human contact by 2015. Large well established organisations such as EBay are reported to conduct 200,000 conversations a day using them.   Read full story EU project crawls Web for hidden financial expertise The three year First project aims to harness artificial intelligence to find information on the Internet that can then be used to support financial decision makers. It is being run by a consortium of eight European partners, including Boerse Stuttgart, from Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Spain and has a EUR4.57 million budget co-funded by the EU.   Read full story USI Technologies Announces Launch of New Online Chat Support Division, Help Interactive USI Technologies, Inc.  the pioneer in automated sales chat solutions, announces the launch of a new company division, Help Interactive. The new division will focus on providing online businesses with superior online customer support by augmenting contact centers with Artificial Intelligence technologies. Help Interactive (http://www.helpinteractive.com) offers two customizable methods of integrating Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) into the customer experience, Hybrid Chat and Virtual Chat Experts.   Read full story              McSleepy Meets DaVinci: Doctors Conduct First-Ever All-Robotic Surgery and Anesthesia   In a world first, a completely robotic surgery and anesthesia has been performed at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). The DaVinci surgical robot, which lets surgeons work from remote locations, was put to work this summer, whereas the anesthesia robot, nicknamed McSleepy, has been providing automated anesthesia since 2008. The two combined to perform the first all-robotic surgery on a prostatectomy patient at the Montreal General Hospital. Read full story   First 3D-Printed Car Hits The Road   The car, designed by Kor Ecologic of Winnipeg, Canada, is an electric / liquid-fuel hybrid that will get the equivalent of over 200 mpg on the highway and 100 MPG in the city. But it is also the first car ever to have its entire body printed out on a giant 3D printer   Read full story Lockheed Martin Conducts Validation Testing On the Advanced Ruggedized HULC™ Robotic Exoskeleton   Lockheed Martin  recently began laboratory testing of an improved next-generation design of its HULC™ advanced robotic exoskeleton. The testing brings HULC a step closer to readiness to support troops on the ground and others who must carry heavy loads.   Read full story Preparing for the supercomputer war New research from the University of Warwick, to be presented at the World’s largest supercomputing conference next week, pits China’s new No. 1 supercomputer against alternative U.S. designs. The work provides crucial new analysis that will benefit the battle plans of both sides, in an escalating war between two competing technologies.   Read full story Web browser pioneer backs new way to surf Net RockMelt integrates basic browsing with Facebook and other social media     Read full story With Kinect, Microsoft Aims for a Game Changer       The company’s blend of game developers, interface whizzes and artificial-intelligence experts has built Kinect, a $150 add-on for the popular Xbox 360 console that hits stores next month. ... In fact, Kinect arrives with a healthy dose of sci-fi trappings. Microsoft has one-upped Sony and Nintendo by eliminating game controllers and their often nightmarish bounty of buttons. Kinect peers out into a room, locks onto people and follows their motions. Players activate it with a wave of a hand, navigate menus with an arm swoosh and then run, jump, swing, duck, lunge, lean and dance to direct their on-screen avatars in each game Read full story To subscribe  or  unsubscribe to this newsletter Contact Us. Don't forget to write your email address to unsubscribe To   read  previous issues of Newsletter  click here