Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

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

NASA has begun to open source some code if you are looking to dig into a cool project you might start there:

Today we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and contribution.
In our initial release, we are focusing on providing a home for the current state of open source at the Agency. This includes guidance on how to engage the open source process, points of contact, and a directory of existing projects. By elucidating the process, we hope to lower the barriers to building open technology in partnership with the public.

code.NASA

Processing huge amounts of data is going to be the next big thing. One of the open source tools for doing so is Apache’s hadoop:

What Is Apache Hadoop?
The Apache™ Hadoop™ project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-avaiability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-availabile service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.

hadoop

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

Human Computer Interfaces
Game Theory
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Computer Science 101
Software as a Service
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Cryptography
Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
and
Lean Launchpad
Technology Entrepreneurship

I can’t recommend these classes enough. I’ve taken the iPhone Development, Intro to Artificial Intelligence, Intro to Databases, and Machine Learning classes.

It’s my thought that the future of education will not be 4 year degrees on site, but life long learning at home.

If you need to brush up on some math first try Khan Academy, Wolfram Math World.