The sound of applause dies away, and the audience in the concert hall waits in expectant
silence. The pianist seats himself at the instrument; the conductor's score is open at the first …

Deep Blue is the chess machine that defeated then-reigning World Chess Champion Garry
Kasparov in a six-game match in 1997. There were a number of factors that contributed to …

As more and more forms of AI become prevalent, it becomes increasingly important to
understand how people develop mental models of these systems. In this work we study people's …

FENG· HSruNG HSU, THOMAS ANAN· THARAMAN, MURRAY CAMPBELL and ANDREAS
NOWATZYK constructed Deep Thought, the world's leading chess rna· chine, while …

ANGELA WILCZYNSKI/WIZZLE. SIMPLENET. COM/FRACTALS/FRACTALINTRO. HTM ing
large databases of expert decisions. A tremendous amount of information is contained in …

The threat of bioterrorism has stimulated interest in enhancing public health surveillance to
detect disease outbreaks more rapidly than is currently possible. To advance research on …

In this paper we describe our participation in the NIST TRECVID-2003 evaluation. We
participated in four tasks of the benchmark including shot boundary detection, high-level feature …

A popular recent approach to answering open-domain questions is to first search for
question-related passages and then apply reading comprehension models to extract answers. …

The" alpha-beta" algorithm forms the basts of many programs that search game trees. A
number of methods have been designed to improve the utility of the sequential version of this …

Options in reinforcement learning allow agents to hierarchically decompose a task into
subtasks, having the potential to speed up learning and planning. However, autonomously …