In the prize competition, the conference reviewers selected eight papers out of the hundreds submitted.

A powerful tool that could flexibly automate processes like this would be useful for many scientific and high-level commercial applications.

Rickel was a project leader in the Intelligent Systems division of ISI and a research assistant professor at the USC School of Engineering department of computer science.

Teams at 11 different sites across the US and one in the UK jumped into action, and twenty-nine days later can present an impressive array of information processing tools for Hindi.

The honor was for Modi’s work with the AI grads, the group of Computer Science Graduate Research Assistants working in the Intelligent Systems Division.

Using the DARPA Agent Markup Language, Hobbs is building a beyond-Google search engine that tailors itself to the user’s needs, expressed in something closer to ordinary language.

The USC cluster is already the 17th largest of its kind in the country, and the largest in Southern California academia.

The new system is based on a technology called ANT — Autonomous Negotiating Teamware.

Sixty-two graduate students came from as far away as Japan and Slovenia to listen to presentations by top scientists in the field.

Elves can sign their humans up for tasks, such as giving speeches, on the basis of who is ready (or should be ready) to present material, and who has been longest since a presentation.