Artificial Intelligence

Smart machines—those that can learn and make decisions autonomously—have become a reality. Artificial intelligence researchers in SRI's world-renowned Artificial Intelligence Center develop computer-based systems that exhibit intelligent behavior in complex situations. SRI's applied solutions solve problems, communicate with people in new ways, and interact with the physical world.

For commercial, industrial, and military clients, core artificial intelligence programs include

Projects

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Autonomous Robotic Manipulation- Hand (ARM-H)

SRI and partners are developing highly dexterous low-cost robotic hands for military applications and other real-world uses.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Force Protection Laboratory and Industrial Automation Robotics Unmanned Robotics Perception
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Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System (AURA)

SRI is developing a "Digital Aristotle" — a computerized system that uses artificial intelligence to answer novel questions and solve advanced problems in a broad range of scientific disciplines.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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BioCyc Database Collection

A comprehensive website for sharing fundamental information about biochemical pathways and genomes with researchers around the world.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Drug Discovery Metabolic Diseases
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Bootstrapped Learning

SRI and partners developed human-instructable computing technology to let users change software in ways that traditionally require skilled programmers.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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DoVETAIL: Domain Vocabulary Extraction and Transduction + Auto-Induction of Layout

SRI and partners are developing new tools to extract better meaning and actionable analysis from data sources.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
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EcoCyc: Encyclopedia of E. coli Genes and Metabolism

EcoCyc is SRI's bioinformatics database that describes the genome and the biochemical machinery of Escherichia coli.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Drug Discovery
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FAUST: Flexible Acquisition and Understanding System for Text

SRI is developing an automated reading system that makes the information in textbooks accessible to a range of formal reasoning systems.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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Meme Epidemiology

SRI is applying artificial intelligence principles to predict the emergence and spread of memes—ideas that spread from individual to individual, shaping social institutions and inspiring cultural movements.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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Probative Rapid Interactive Modeling Environment

SRI is developing a decision support tool to help analysts forecast and understand the plausible effects of actions taken within complex socio-cultural environments.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Homeland Security and National Defense Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Quadri: Intelligent Question Answering in the HIV Domain

SRI, Stanford University, and PARC co-developed an intelligent system for answering English questions about HIV treatment.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence

Products + Solutions

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Pathway Tools

Comprehensive symbolic systems biology software used by researchers to create pathway databases for organisms with sequenced genomes. Hundreds of pathway databases within the BioCyc collection facilitate gene expression and metabolomics data analysis, and speed development of metabolic flux models.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Drug Discovery
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Karto™ Software for Robots on the Move

Decades of leading-edge SRI robotics and artificial intelligence research has produced Karto™—robust software for use in robotic navigation, mapping, and exploration.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Robotics
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Structured Evidential Argumentation System™ (SEAS)

The SEAS software tool uses best analytic practices to guide analysts in collaboratively reasoning from evidence about potential threats and opportunities.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Homeland Security and National Defense Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

Press Releases

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Metabolic Pathways Collection at SRI International the Largest in the World

Much of the known information about metabolism is now consolidated in MetaCyc, SRI's collection of metabolic reactions and the enzymes that catalyze them.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Drug Discovery
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News from SRI Spin-off Tempo AI: As Reservation Queue Nears Zero, Tempo AI Launches Popular Smart Calendar App for iOS in Canada

As its reservation queue nears zero, SRI spin-off Tempo AI has launched its popular smart calendar app for iOS in Canada.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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The ‘Bots are Back at Xconomy’s Second Annual Robotics Forum at SRI International

Leading thinkers and innovators will gather at SRI headquarters in Menlo Park, California on April 11 to explore how robots are transforming the economy at Xconomy’s "Robots Remake the Workplace."

Topics: 3D and Virtual Environments Actuation and Power Generation Advanced Manipulation and Automation Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Robotics Sensors
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SRI International Spin-Off Tempo AI Announces Smart Mobile Calendar

Tempo Smart Calendar, a next-generation personal assistant from SRI International spin-off Tempo AI, finds everything needed for upcoming meetings and streamlines routine tasks.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering
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Agilent Technologies’ New Pathway Architect Software to Include SRI International’s BioCyc Pathway Database Collection

Agilent Technologies Inc. and SRI have signed a licensing agreement to offer laboratory research customers an integrated package that includes SRI's complete BioCyc Pathway Database Collection.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Biofuels and Bioproducts Drug Discovery Proteomics Synthetic Biology
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New Software Speeds Development of Genome-Scale Models for Drug and Fuel Research

A new software tool can substantially decrease time required for researchers to construct genome-scale models of metabolic networks. Metabolic networks are the complete set of metabolic and physical processes that determine physiological and biochemical properties of a cell.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Drug Discovery Software Engineering Synthetic Biology
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International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Honors SRI's Raymond Perrault with Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award

In recognition for his substantial contributions and extensive service to the field of artificial intelligence, C. Raymond Perrault, Ph.D., director of SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center, was presented with the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
DARPA Selects SRI International to Develop Visual Intelligence System for Mind's Eye Program

SRI International is leading a team to design a visual intelligence system, known as VIGIL (Visual Intelligence Grounded in Learning), to enable a new era in unmanned robotic surveillance.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Department of Energy Funds SRI to Enhance Bioinformatics Tools for Renewable Energy Research

SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development organization, announced today it has been awarded a grant by the Department of Energy (DOE) to expand its MetaCyc database and enhance its Pathway Tools software.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
SRI International Releases New Version of Karto™ Software for Mobile Robot Navigation

SRI International, an independent, nonprofit research and development institute, today announced the release of version 1.1 of SRI's Karto™ Software Development Kit (SDK).

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Robotics

SRI In the News

How Desti Is Training Your iPad To Be Romantic And Fun

Desti’s iPad application, launched last fall under the same name, lets people ask questions as if they were posing them to another person, and it answers using artificial intelligence technology that can glean meaning from online reviews.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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Smart Calendar iOS App Tempo Opens to All in Canada

SRI spin-off company Tempo AI is bringing its Tempo smart calendar app to Canada.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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After Processing 50M Events, Smart Calendar App Tempo Launches In Canada

Tempo, the smart calendar startup that spun out of Siri birthplace SRI, is beginning its international expansion today by launching in Canada.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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Trapit Launches Publisher Suite, Its First Business Tool, to Help Brands Create Personalized Stories

Publisher Suite from SRI spin-off Trapit allows media companies, organizations, or any brand to leverage its advanced personalization service to create individual tailored experiences.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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Making Robots Mimic the Human Hand

John Markoff reports on DARPA-funded initiatives, including one at SRI, to develop robots and prosthetic devices for wide use.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Robotics
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Kuato Teaches Kids to Code via Hakitzu Educational Game

SRI spin-off Kuato Studios has launched its first code-teaching game, Hakitzu: Code of the Warrior, as a title on the Apple iPad. The game is part of an effort to pioneer a new way for kids to learn programming.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies
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Robots and Rocket Launchers: Kuato Studios Uses Gaming to Teach Kids the Basics of Coding

SRI spin-off Kuato Studios’ new mobile strategy game Hakitzu aims to teach kids the basics of JavaScript.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies
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A Smarter Calendar for iPhone

SRI spin-off Tempo AI's calendar for iPhone is worth the wait to get it, says All Things D's Lauren Goode.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Why Yahoo Acquired Summly News Reader: Concise and Mobile Smart Apps

Yahoo! has announced that it has acquired Summly, an iPhone app that delivers news about the things you care about at a glance. And to perfect the app, Summly partnered with SRI, says reporter Mellisa Tolentino.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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At 17, App Builder Rockets to Riches From Yahoo Deal

Yahoo! continued its streak of small acquisitions by purchasing the maker of a news-reading mobile application called Summly, launched late last year and run by a teenager from London. The news app features artificial intelligence technology from SRI.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence

Events

AIC Seminar: Overview of the Technology Behind Kngine

Haytham ElFadeel presents an overview of the technology behind Kngine.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
AIC Seminar: Three Open-source Packages from AIC for Probabilistic Logic, Symbolic Evaluation, and General Utilities

Ciaran O'Reilly presents information about software developed under DARPA's Machine Reading program.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence

Publications

A Perspective On Multiagent Planning

This report presents an informal review of current research trends in planning and, in particular, my own views on multiagent planning. A short description of the GEMPLAN research project is provided, including both the current state of the system and my future research plans.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
A Calculus For Semantic Composition and Scoping

Certain restrictions on possible scopings of quantified noun phrases in natural language are usually expressed in terms of formal constraints on binding at a level of logical form.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
An Architecture For Intelligent Reactive Systems

Any intelligent system that operates in a moderately complex or unpredictable environment must be reactive — that is, it must respond dynamically to changes in its environment.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Random Sample Consensus: A Paradigm for Model Fitting with Applications to Image Analysis and Automated Cartography

In 1981 SRI introduced RANSAC, a now widely referenced paradigm for robust communication ideally suited to computer vision (a type of artificial intelligence used in image analysis.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision
A Mobile Automation: an Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques

A research project applying artificial intelligence techniques to development of integrated robot systems is described. The experimental facility consists of an SDS-940 computer and associated programs controlling a wheeled vehicle that carries a TV camera and other sensors.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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