Artificial Intelligence

New Color Butler Video

Nov 1, 2018

My friend Dr. Bob Penner of Color Butler, Inc. has a new video promoting his company's free iPhone app for color blind men. Check it out! (Nov 1, 2018)

Trials.ai Featured at Tech Emergence

Oct 11, 2018

Click here for a story including Trials.ai and applying artificial intelligence to clinical trials, featuring CEO Kim Walpole. (Oct 11, 2018)

Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Gliding

Sep 27, 2018

Researchers at University of California San Diego have used reinforcement learning to train gliders to soar in atmospheric thermals. (Sep 20, 2018)

My New Publication in Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications

Aug 13, 2018

I’m pleased to say that my new paper “Factors associated with clinical trials that fail and opportunities for improving the likelihood of success: A review,” has been published at Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. It’s open access so please feel free to read and share.

AI for Predicting Autism at 3 Months

May 1, 2018

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have developed an algorithm that can diagnose autistic spectrum disorder in children as early as 3 years old with good sensitivity and specificity. (May 1, 2018)

George Burgin Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

Apr 19, 2018

Natural Selection, Inc. is pleased to announce that Dr. George Burgin will be receiving a lifetime achievement award from the AIAA San Diego Section for his pioneering efforts over multiple decades using evolutionary computation for aerospace applications. Working with Dr. Lawrence Fogel (my dad) and under funding from NASA Langley, Burgin succeeded in programming the “Adaptive Maneuvering Logic” that was used for air-to-air combat flight training in the 1970s-1980s. Burgin also demonstrated the value of evolutionary computation in the control logic of supersonic aircraft. Already recognized by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for his pioneering efforts in evolutionary algorithms and games, I’m thrilled to see him also receive recognition for his many efforts to bring machine learning to aerospace! (Apr 19, 2018)

YouTube Posts My Talk from Kaohsiung, Taiwan: AI in Industry

Apr 13, 2018

With thanks to Professor Chang-Shing Lee, a video of my talk on AI in Industry from Kaohsiung, Taiwan at the end of March is now on YouTube.

Sentient Technologies Offers New Demos in Evolutionary Computation and Other AI

Mar 14, 2018

My colleague and friend Dr. Risto Miikkulainen of Sentient Technologies, let me know that Sentient now has several new demos in evolutionary computation (and other AI algoriths) available at their website. Risto is a pioneer in combining evolutionary computation with neural networks and I encourage you to have a look at their site. (Mar 14, 2018)

Color Butler 2018 Launches in the iPhone App Store

Mar 10, 2018

Today’s an important day for one of our projects. A little over a year ago, Dr. Bob Penner met with us at Natural Selection, Inc. and asked if we could help with an app that would assist him in figuring out which of his clothes go together. You see, he’s color blind. He can tell you some very funny stories that have resulted from his “color deficiency.” So with machine learning to determine how to label colors, expert rules on how colors go together based on different types of clothing, and an expert app programmer, today the Color Butler 2018 app has launched in the iPhone app store. It’s free so go download the app and check it out. Color blindness affects about 1 in 12 males (you might think higher!) and so it’s likely there’s someone you know who’d benefit from this app.

And, as a little side story, today is the first day that my music is published on the app store, and with me performing. I composed the theme song to the app, called Colors of Life. It plays during the tutorial. (You can turn it off if you like, but I’d rather you turn it up and enjoy it.) The track that is playing has me on all parts, including my dad’s old tenor sax. We do have a nicer recording with Jim Weiss recorded at Peter Sprague’s studio that we’ll be swapping in soon. But for now, you can listen to me… and I hope you do and I hope you enjoy it. We’ll have it on iTunes in the future in case you’d like to have your own copy.

Oh, and you can also watch for more info at www.colorbutler.com.