Robotic Soccer The Robocup goal: By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team. While computers are winning at chess, the Robocup organizers are looking to win at soccer. So far the robots are just playing each

Business Models for Deploying AI There is no doubt of the benefit of various AI tools and techniques, but, compared to conventional applications, there are additional costs associated with using AI. In other words, deploying AI requires a cost/benefit analysis just like everything else. The major cost is acquiring

Is AI Practical? Thanks for the e-mail. A number of people asked if AI was practical and if there were commercial applications. The very fact that the question needs to be asked, and that there are those who see the need to catalog affirmative answers, indicates that there is some

Welcome to the Premier Issue Welcome to Dr. Dobb's AI Expert Newsletter. Before you begin to talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI), you have to deal with the name itself. It leads to impassioned philosophical debates, like those raging right now on the AI Forum, and inspires some great