Welcome to AI Topics

Welcome to AI Topics
a dynamic library of introductory information about
Artificial Intelligence

In AI's youth, we worked hard to establish our paradigm by vigorously attacking and excluding apparent pretenders to the throne of intelligence, pretenders such as pattern recognition, behaviorism, neural networks, and even probability theory. Now that we are established, such ideological purity is no longer a concern. We are more catholic, focusing on problems, not on hammers. Given that we do have a comprehensive toolbox, issues of architecture and integration emerge as central.

- Alan K. Mackworth, "The Coevolution of AI and AAAI," AI Magazine 26(4): Winter 2005, 51-52

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GIZA++: Training of statistical translation models.

GIZA++: Training of statistical translation models.

GIZA++ is an extension of the program GIZA (part of the SMT toolkit EGYPT) which was developed by the Statistical Machine Translation team during the summer workshop in 1999 at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns-Hopkins University (CLSP/JHU). GIZA++ includes a lot of additional features. The extensions of GIZA++ were designed and written by Franz Josef Och.

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http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Colleagues/och/software/GIZA++.html

eBooks Glossary 1.0

List and definitions of commonly used acronyms and words relating the ebooks industry
The glossary page is filled with info and definitions on a wide range of eBook-related terms and acronyms. If you think we've omitted a term, or need to update one, please let the Planet eBook editor know about it.

Adobe Acrobat & Acrobat Reader : Acrobat is Adobe's software for viewing Portable Document Format (PDF) files -- PDF has become one of the most commonly used ebook formats. The popularity of Acrobat has grown through PDF's growing maturity, and its universal portability -- PDF files can be shared reliably between almost all operating systems. Currently there are versions of Acrobat available for Windows, Mac, Unix and Linux.

Acrobat comes in three flavors Acrobat 4.05 (the full version), Acrobat Business Tools 4.0 (a cheaper, slimmed-down version) and the free Acrobat Reader. Acrobat has the largest user base of all ebook readers -- software or reading devices. Adobe's last estimate was 160 million users, however the amount of users with the latest version (4.05), which comes with the DRM plug-in (WebBuy), is much lower.

DOI (Digital Object Identifier): The Digital Object Identifier (DOI ) is an identification system for intellectual property in the digital environment. Developed by the International DOI Foundation on behalf of the publishing industry, its goals are to provide a framework for managing intellectual content, link customers with publishers, facilitate electronic commerce, and enable automated copyright management.

DRM (Digital Rights Management): Digital Rights Management (DRM) covers the description, identification, trading, protection, monitoring and tracking of all forms of rights usages over both tangible and intangible assets including management of rights holders.

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Machine Learning Summer School 2004 - Berder Island

ABOUT Machine Learning Summer School 2004 - Berder Island:

The fourth Machine Learning Summer School was held in Berder Island, France between the 12th and the 25th of September, 2004. More than 100 students and researchers from 20 countries interested in Machine Learning attended. This years' summer school presented some of the topics which are at the core of modern Learning Theory. 15 distinguished authorities from the field gave 14 courses in slots from 4 to 8 hours. In addition, many evening talks which were focused on additional topics were presented. There were also three practical sessions organized providing a 'hands-on' experience of working with Machine Learning algorithms.

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http://seminars.ijs.si/pascal/2004/mlss_berderisland/

A Handbook of Statistics

Contents
List of Contributors


I. Computational Statistics
1. Computational Statistics: An Introduction
1.1 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
1.2 The Emergence of a Field of Computational Statistics
1.3 Why This Handbook


References
II. Statistical Computing
1. Basic Computational Algorithms
1.1 Computer Arithmetic
1.2 Algorithms

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Updates.

1. Finished QE Report.
2. Finished Journal Paper Submission
3. Finished Parallel Report Writing.
4. Submitted Thesis and QE Report

Updates

1. Finished Parallel Project Implementation/Evaluation/Mock Presentation
2. Finished S.M. Thesis Draft.
3. Finished Computer Graphics Assignments.
4. Finished Parallel Project Report

To do:
1. Qualification Examination Report
2. Computer Graphics Examination
3. Parallel Final Presentation
4. Journal Paper Camera-Ready Version
5. Internal Project Final Presentation
6. Qualification Examination