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AI Groups See Success at Summer Conferences

July 19, 2013

UTCS's AI group enjoyed considerable success at this summer's conferences. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Kristen Grauman, Peter Stone, Ray Mooney

Disruptions: How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities

July 8, 2013

While driverless cars might still seem like science fiction outside the Valley, the people working and thinking about these technologies are starting to ask what these autos could mean for the city of the future. The short answer is “a lot.” ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Peter Stone, Research

A New Computer Game ‘Bot’ Acts Just Like a Real Person

October 24, 2012

BBC News is one of many outlets to report that computer scientist Risto Miikkulainen and his team stepped away with first place at the annual BotPrize Competition for a bot that displayed behavior very similar to that of a human. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, In the News

Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test on Turing’s Centenary

September 26, 2012

AUSTIN, Texas — An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Research

They Are Robots and This Is Robocup

September 5, 2012

A website devoted to covering the world of soccer adds a pinch of science by covering Robocup. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Honors & Awards, In the News, Main Page, Nanoscience, Research

UT^2 Game Bot Judged More Human Than Human

September 5, 2012

Screenshot from Unreal Tournament 2004, the videogame in which in which multiple players and bots battle each other with different weapons and abilities. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Featured, Honors & Awards, Main Page, Research

The UT^2 Game Bot Judged More Human Than Humans

August 14, 2012

The UT^2 game bot, created by Jacob Schrum, Igor Karpov, and Professor Risto Miikkulainen, won the Humanlike Bot Competition at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012). The UT^2 bot is the first winning bot in the history of the Humanlike Bot Competition to be judged as human more often than half the human players participating in the evaluation. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, game bots, Graduate Students, Humanlike Bot Competition, IEEE, Igor Karpov, Jacob Schrum, Risto Miikkulainen

Heavy Hitters

August 1, 2012

The Economist speaks with Dr. Peter Stone about how making sporting robots can aid in using them for rescue missions. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, In the News, Main Page, Research

Robot Sport: Heavy Hitters

July 21, 2012

Sporting robots are still slow. But their inventors are making rapid strides ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Nao, Peter Stone, Research, RoboCup

Putting the Auto in Automobile

July 5, 2012

Peter Stone talks about autonomous vehicles and intersections with Michael Breen of American Mathematical Society on this podcast episode of Mathematical Moments. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research

UT Robots Win Soccer Championship

July 3, 2012

The Austin Business Journal reports on our robot squad’s triumph in Mexico City. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Honors & Awards, In the News, Research

University of Texas at Austin Team Wins Robot Soccer World Championships in Two Divisions

June 27, 2012

The UT Austin Villa Standard Platform League RoboCup World Champion Team, which includes Dr. Peter Stone, doctoral students Todd Hester, Sam Barrett, Katie Genter, Piyush Khandelwal and Jake Menashe, and master’s student Yuchen He. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Press Release, Research

UT robots win soccer championship in Mexico City

June 26, 2012

UT Austin Villa, a team of robots led by University of Texas computer scientists, took home two 2012 Robot Soccer World Cup division championships during the RoboCup 2012 in Mexico City this month. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Graduate Students, In the News, Jake Menashe, Katie Genter, Nao, Peter Stone, Piyush Khandelwal, RoboCup, Sam Barrett, Todd Hester, UT Austin Villa, Yuchen He

Professor Peter Stone Elected AAAI Fellow

May 23, 2012

Professor Peter Stone has been elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for his significant contributions to machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics, and pioneering applications in robot soccer, trading agents, and autonomous driving domains. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Peter Stone, Research

5 Ways Self-Driving Cars Will Make You Love Commuting

May 17, 2012

Ordinary Americans can't buy intelligent, self-driving cars just yet, but the technology could someday revolutionize one of the nation's most common road rituals—the morning and evening commutes that bookend the workday for millions of people. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research

No lights, no signs, no accidents - future intersections for driverless cars

March 23, 2012

Computer scientists at the University of Texas in Austin are developing intersections of the future, designed to accommodate the driverless vehicles they believe will soon take over our roads. The intersection will have no traffic lights and no stop signs, just computer programs that will talk directly to each car on the road. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Peter Stone, Research

In a World of Driverless Cars

March 16, 2012

The Cities page on Atlantic.com takes a look at research on the intersections of the future done by computer scientist Peter Stone. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, In the News, Research

UT professor leads research into autonomous intersection technology

March 4, 2012

Having already designed an SUV that drives itself, a project group at the University of Texas is now working on the technological next step: an autonomous intersection that lets driverless vehicles navigate without stoplights or stop signs. ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research

Driving on Autopilot

February 28, 2012

Imagine driving down a street at rush hour. It’s a typical commute, but this time, you’re reading a newspaper in the backseat. The driver’s seat is empty—your car is driving itself. Sounds like a fantasy, right? ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Research

Avoiding Red Lights by Booking Ahead

February 21, 2012

Discovery News asks, "Computers can reserve your plane ticket, your hotel room and your restaurant table. Why not your place at an intersection?" ...
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research
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