Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
Working in a team environment can be either an efficient and productive means of completing projects or a nightmare where the project never seems to end. Most of us have been a pa...
Human-robot interaction could be improved by designing robots that engage in adaptive dialogue with users. An adaptive robot could estimate the information needs of individuals an...
Cristen Torrey, Aaron Powers, Matthew Marge, Susan...
Ten years ago we were on the verge of having cameras built into our mobile phones, but knew very little about what to expect or how they would be used. Now we are faced with the s...
Max L. Wilson, Simon Robinson, Dan Craggs, Kristia...
It is not surprising that reaching human-level AI has proved to be difficult and progress has been slow— though there has been important progress. The slowness and the demand t...