Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Group at PUPR
Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Group
Human inspired models of Artificial Intelligence
Supporting
KSCE 2006
Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative EngineeringNovember 29-December 1, 2006
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands
Official host for
IEEE Odyssey 2006
Emergency host forIEEE ASRU 2005
The Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Group was founded in 2004 when Armin Zundel
and Kay Berkling moved from Switzerland to Puerto Rico. Since then we've helped to
build up the Master Degree in Computer Science. We are now working on building up
a research lab within the "Window to the Caribbean" project.
This lab consists of several work-areas for students and a social corner with
sofas in a multi-media smart room. Imagine this as a sort of holo-deck in which
an embodied agent moves across four plasma screens and can see and interact with
the people in the room. This part of the project serves as the base technology
for our research. While we are not inventing any of the technologies,
the goal of our work is to integrate state-of-the-art technology from speech,
vision and gesture generation to highlight necessary improvements/changes
for this integrated approaches.
Our second goal is to personify this room by outfitting it with human-like
artificial intelligence, that includes the ability to learn and understand and
show emotions.
Our research students
are Seniors that enrolled in Capstone I & II as well as undergraduate research class.
Soon the first Master students will reach their thesis stage. We take students from
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering majors. We currently do not have a PhD
program, but we are happy to host students from other Universities.
Kay Berkling, Ph.D.
Dr.Ing. Armin Zundel
Alumnis
Maria Gonzalez, Senior(Capstone)
Jon Graulau, Senior (Capstone)
Jon and Maria say: "visit our project
and talk to SABLE.
Luis Rubero, Senior (Capstone)
Current research topics:
Students click here to find current open projects
Dörner Theory
The goal is to create human-like robust intelligence that
is flexible and is able to perceive and interact with its environment.
The Dörner Theory is key to building cognitive agents for the
real world more...
Models of Neural Networks
While there are many different models on the market, we concentrate on a new family of models that deliver
a confidence meassure with the calculated values. We hope that this will enable us to built better
modular systems. more...
Related links
Window to the Caribbean
We have been awarded a DoD proposal to fit three rooms with multimedia equipment for remote collaboration. Who would be interested in connecting their multi-media enviornment with ours - see our flyer.
Speech recognition integration into PSI
Speech recognition brings a new, fascinating dimension to the life of PSI. With the new integration we investigate how and if PSI can recognize speech and hold a simple converstion about the environment. Can PSI speak Spanish and English? Can PSI translate? Can PSI recognize who is talking? These are all difficult areas to work on, especially in the noisy environment of our lab. We are looking for industry advisors for our students! We are happy to be able to use Dragon Natural Speaking for our research.PSI moves to Puerto Rico
PSI is used to live on an island and now we are bringing him to Puerto Rico. Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to find out more.Testbed and Collaborative Research
We are very much interested in any collaborative proposals with other Universities that would promote exchange of students or faculty. Likewise, we are very interested in integrating technologies from your lab. We can offer you Puerto Rican Spanish speech and real applications for regular language translation in the classroom. We have free housing for visiting scientists to our lab - though absolutely zero funding for any travel or visa arrangements.Visitors to our Group
- Etienne Barnard
- Joscha Bach
- Johan Schalkwyk from Scansoft
Related Conferences
- Workshop on Child, Computer and Interactionn WOCCI 2008 WOCCI 2009
- Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
- Architecture of Language
- PERCEPTION AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES (PIT06) Please follow this link to visit our Workshop Link
- AAAI-06, July 16th 2006, Boston, MA
- International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG'2006
- OLP2 - 2nd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population -- Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge Workshop at COLING/ACL 2006
- 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue Sydney, July, 14-15, 2006
- European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 31 July - 11 August, 2006 in Malaga
- IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology Aruba Marriott, Palm Beach, Aruba December 10 -- December 13, 2006
- Workshop on Interactive Question Answering 8th & 9th June 2006 - New York City, USA to be held as part of the HLT-NAACL conference in New York City (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06/)
Our vision and goals:
- Discuss the Dörner Theory in an international context
- Understand the human mind
- Solve problems that require intelligence
- Identify core components
- Speech integration for inelligent interaction
Visit us
We are actively seeking for interaction with interested people in this field world wide. We would like to host visiting researchers who would like to work in this environment - we offer free housing and Caribbean beaches and mild winters. We want to integrate vision with PSI. If anyone is interested to form a collaboration based on vision and face recognition that we can incorporate with PSI, please let us know.
Miscellaneous
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If you are interested in scholarship and internships we have opened a yahoo group to post this information.
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