Updates
2009 | November 9
Yesterday's meeting went well. We decided to add a level of first-order logic to our data. This will allow us to do simple reasoning by chaining facts together.
2009 | November 8
A few meetings have passed, and a handful of emails. We're currently planning to finish up our current project by the end of the semester. Everyone is busy this time of year, so we're planning meetings by email. Our next meeting is tonight at 7:00. Contact us if you need details.
2009 | September 17
After last week's boring Python crash course, this week's attendence was pretty poor. If you couldn't make it to this week's meeting, take a look at the meetings page for the slides.
Today's presentation was a broad overview of the very specific A.I. topics our project covers. We talked about fact extraction, our database API, and possible improvements to the querying front end.
In terms of what to expect at future meetings, we're considering having bi-weekly talks on A.I. topics, with meetings more related to our project in between.
2009 | September 10
Here are some SVN and Python cheat sheets. We also highly recommend the Learn Python in 10 minutes tutorial.
2009 | September 6
We had our first meeting of the Fall 2009 semester last Thursday. The slides from it are available on the meetings page. Stay tuned for next week's meeting topic. It will be a tutorial over something basic.
2009 | August 25
We're currently recruiting people interested in artificial intelligence. Come to the ACM Open House on Tuesday September 1st at 6:00 PM to learn more and get involved.
2009 | July 17
The Knowledge Extraction project is progressing well. Version 0.1 was completed last night. Come to our meeting this Sunday to help plan for version 0.2!
2009 | July 5
Our third dinner meeting was today. We discussed the logical flow of data from input (Simple Wikipedia) to output (SQL database). Expectations for version 0.1 were also discussed. Here's a new wiki page for it.
2009 | June 28
If you're on our mailing list, you know we had our first summer meeting last week. The second one is today, at 7:00 PM. We're meeting at Noodles & Company. The discussion will be focused around ontologies, Wikipedia, and how to best start coding.
2009 | May 9
We'll be sending out an email mid-June to let everyone know when and where our first summer meeting will be. If you're going to be in the area, stay tuned. Until then, good luck with finals and enjoy the summer weather.
2009 | May 6
The SVN directory ("inference") for the new project is now live. We're done meeting for the spring semester, but several members will be in the area over the summer, so we anticipate adding files to the SVN before SIGART officially starts up again for the fall semester.
2009 | April 19
Our Sunday meeting went well. Attendence was low, but ideas were plentiful. The wiki page for our new project, a networked inference engine, is now online.
2009 | April 17
We're meeting, as usual, this Sunday. Everyone who shows up to the meeting will have the opportunity to contribute ideas towards our next project (to be announced). We're hoping to utilize the pros and cons of our experience building the instant messenger bot to create something that learns. More details will be posted here eventually once we narrow the project down to something tangible.
2009 | April 5
At today's meeting we reviewed our EOH project, the instant messaging bot. We discussed how the bot worked, what went right, and what went wrong. For those of you that are interested in NLP (natural language processing), you may want to take a look at the CS 498JH slides. This meeting set the trajectory for our future meetings, as we'll need to decide which projects we want to tackle next and who will be available to work on them. Note that prior AI knowledge is not a requirement for working on a project. Most of our members started with zero prior experience and still contributed significantly to ongoing projects.
2009 | March 26
Many people enjoyed chatting with our instant messaging bot at Engineering Open House. It wasn't particularly convincing, but it did manage to stay on topic (a bit too well sometimes) and learn new things. Those who participated in building the bot learned a lot and we look forward to using the experience we gained to continue this project in the future.
2009 | February 15
Our instant messaging bot now holds primitive conversations. Success is mixed, with some replies from the bot being fragments and some being logical replies.
2009 | February 4
Work continues on the instant messaging bot. A primitive version now exists on the SVN to help members get a jump-start in implementing their own bot ideas. The stock price predictor has stalled, due to a lack of manpower.
2008 | November 9
We spent the beginning of the meeting discussing the format of the instant messenger bot's internal graphs that it will use for storing data. Near the end we skimmed the stock predictor code and explained what our current code does.
2008 | November 3
The SIGART Wiki page is live now. It's tied to the SVN repository, so you can easily browse the code. We can use the Wiki to share ideas and document our progress. Feel free to contribute. That's why we have it.
2008 | November 2
We've updated the projects page. It now has information on how to access the SVN repository.
2008 | October 21:
Permissions have been transferred from last year's chair to this year's chairs. Now we can update this site and set up SVN access for our current projects.
