The European Defense Agency (EDA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are partnering on two new projects that will explore unknown or potentially hazardous environments: using drones to monitor disaster-stricken regions or toxic spill sites; […]
The US Air Force has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) Phase II contract to Trueface – a developer of computer vision systems – to provide facial recognition, license plate recognition, and weapon […]
Sandia National Laboratories, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering to launch a virtual research center that will combine hardware design and software development to improve artificial intelligence technologies. The […]
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has launched a strategic funding initiative in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). €90 million (~$100 million US) has been earmarked for two main initiatives: funding of up […]
University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) new Center for Intelligent Imaging will accelerate the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to radiology – leveraging advanced computational techniques and industry collaborations to improve patient diagnoses and […]
The Human Effectiveness Directorate of the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) 711th Human Performance Wing is researching human signatures for the purpose of developing technologies that can “sense and exploit human bio-signatures at both […]
The Human Effectiveness Directorate of the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) 711th Human Performance Wing is researching “human signatures” for the purpose of developing technologies that can “sense and exploit human bio-signatures at both […]
The National Geographic Society (NGS) and Microsoft’s AI for Earth program have issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) – AI for Earth Innovation – to support unique projects that create and use AI tools to […]
Ford Motor Company is working on methods of keeping self-driving vehicles free on insects, as they pose a significant challenge to self-driving cars as they can seriously interfere with the sensors’ ability to deliver reliable […]
The Veterans Affairs (VA) Department has appointed its first director of artificial intelligence. Dr. Gil Alterovitz – who has degrees from MIT and Carnegie Mellon in electrical, biomedical, and computer engineering – will be based […]
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