Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

It is hard to resist a project called ‘Sam I Am’.

Sam I Am (Sensitivity Analysis Modeling Inference and More) provides GUI Java tools for designing and experimenting with Bayesian Networks.

They do not appear to be open source, but they are free for you to download and use.

SamIam is a comprehensive tool for modeling and reasoning with Bayesian networks, developed in Java by the Automated Reasoning Group of Professor Adnan Darwiche at UCLA.

Samiam includes two main components: a graphical user interface and a reasoning engine. The graphical interface lets users develop Bayesian network models and save them in a variety of formats. The reasoning engine supports many tasks including: classical inference; parameter estimation; time-space tradeoffs; sensitivity analysis; and explanation-generation based on MAP and MPE.

The Awareness project researching self awareness in systems. There’s a pretty good amount of interesting articles online along with interviews with several people in the field.

Awareness is a Coordination Action (CA), supporting research under the FP7: FET Proactive Intiative:
Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (Awareness). The CA is a 3 year project: 2010 – 2013.

Awareness provide a supportive environment for research into self-awareness in autonomic systems, helping to create a well-connected community of researchers and conveying a coherent prospect to a wider scientific and technological audience.

We reach out to a diverse, multidisciplinary scientific community that researches the domain of Self-awarness in Autonomic Systems. 6 FET funded projects that we support are:

ASCENS: Autonomic Service-Component Ensembles
EPICS: Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems
RECOGNITION: Relevance and cognition for self-awareness in a content-centric Internet
SAPERE: Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems
SYMBRION: Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms (funded by PerAda)
CoCoRo: Collective Cognitive Robots

Sebastian Thrun enjoyed teaching his Stanford AI class online so much he left to start an online, free computer science university.

We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we’ve connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students in almost every country on Earth. Udacity was founded by three roboticists who believed much of the educational value of their university classes could be offered online for very low cost. A few weeks later, over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled in our first class, “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.” The class was twice profiled by the New York Times and also by other news media. Now we’re a growing team of educators and engineers, on a mission to change the future of education.

Udacity

PDL (“Perl Data Language”) gives standard Perl the ability to compactly store and speedily manipulate the large N-dimensional data arrays which are the bread and butter of scientific computing.

PDL turns Perl in to a free, array-oriented, numerical language similar to (but, we believe, better than) such commerical packages as IDL and MatLab. One can write simple perl expressions to manipulate entire numerical arrays all at once. Simple interactive shells, pdl2 and perldl, are provided for use from the command line along with the PDL module for use in Perl scripts.

PDL

Can’t do much with machine learning and artificial intelligence with out data so I started to put together a list of free online sources of data:

Spam Assassin Public Corpus
The Official WhitePages
Blekko
National Weather Service
Infochimps
OpenStreetMap
Yahoo! Finance
Google Books
Census Bureau Home Page
Bureau of Labor Statistics Home Page
Welcome to Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
NewsLibrary.com
American Religion Data Archive
Demographia
Government Web Resources
MedlinePlus
Internet Archive
Clark Library
Household Products Database
Econo data
St. Louis Fed: Economic Research
National Bureau of Economic Research
Fed Stats
Supreme Court
Complete Planet
Iowa Electronic Markets
Tax stats
GSS General Social Survey
PMC Biomedical and Life Sciences Journal Literature
Google’s Ngram Viewer