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The 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held on August 7–11, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, bringing AI researchers and practitioners together for keynotes, invited talks and scientific exchange; David Ferrucci of IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center gave a keynote.
In 2011 Microsoft Research reported that modelling thousands of senones with deep neural networks, trained on GPUs, sharply cut word errors compared with conventional Gaussian-mixture systems in large-vocabulary speech recognition.
In July 2011 Google acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt), a Carnegie Mellon spin-off whose software could find and track faces in photos and video, bringing facial-recognition technology into Google.
On 16 June 2011 Microsoft released a free beta of the Kinect for Windows SDK from Microsoft Research, giving developers depth, skeletal-tracking and microphone-array data on Windows 7.
On 24 February 2011 NASA launched Robonaut 2, a humanoid built with General Motors, aboard space shuttle Discovery on STS-133 — the first human-like robot sent to space. It flew as a torso-only prototype for testing in microgravity.
On Feb. 17, 2011, IBM and Nuance Communications announced a research agreement to apply Watson's analytics to health care, days after Watson's televised Jeopardy win.
In February 2011 IBM's Watson beat Jeopardy! champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in two televised matches, winning USD 77,147 for charity — a public test of machine question-answering, and IBM's chosen successor to its 1997 chess victory.
In 2011 ACM gave Judea Pearl the A.M. Turing Award for a calculus of probabilistic and causal reasoning, work that began with his invention of Bayesian networks and later produced the do-calculus for causal inference.
The 2011 ILSVRC saw XRCE, the 2010 runner-up, win classification with compressed high-dimensional signatures and linear SVMs, while the new single-object localization task was won by UvA's selective search approach.
A 2010 NIPS workshop on deep learning and unsupervised feature learning. Its cited papers examine pre-training and fine-tuning for speech recognition and connect earlier and later work in the field.
Kinect was Microsoft's motion-sensing, controller-free input device for the Xbox 360, released in November 2010. It used cameras and infrared depth sensing for gesture and skeletal tracking, and sold more than 8 million units in its first 60 days.
In October 2010 Google announced on its corporate blog that it had developed technology for cars that drive themselves, a project led by Sebastian Thrun and framed around safety, time and emissions.
In 2010 Google staffed its self-driving car work with engineers who had led winning teams in the US government's DARPA autonomous vehicle races, and put paid drivers in the driver's seat to watch the cars in traffic.
In October 2010 Google said its self-driving cars had driven more than 140,000 miles on public roads, and reported that the only crash was a car rear-ended at a traffic light.
The spring 2010 release of ImageNet, announced by Fei-Fei Li on 11 May 2010, totalled more than 11 million images in 15,500 categories and added bounding boxes, SIFT features and a MATLAB toolbox, alongside a call to join ILSVRC2010.
In April 2010 Apple bought Siri, a San Jose start-up whose app answered spoken requests on the iPhone; the deal, reported by The New York Times, put voice-driven assistance on the path to becoming a built-in phone feature.
On 13 April 2010, Fei-Fei Li announced the first ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, a 1,000-category image categorization benchmark. It ran for eight editions, from 2010 to 2017.
On 28 May 2009 Microsoft unveiled Bing, a search engine it presented as a decision engine that organizes results around tasks such as shopping, travel and health, and the first internet service it gave a Chinese brand. It marked a renewed attempt to challenge Google's search dominance.
Wolfram|Alpha went live on the evening of 15 May 2009 and was declared officially launched on 18 May 2009, after a weekend of load testing, bug fixes and more than 22,000 pieces of user feedback.
On 17 January 2009 Google began developing self-driving cars in its Google X lab; the project, revealed in October 2010 after 140,000 miles of testing, was later renamed Waymo.
At ICDAR 2009, Alex Graves won three connected handwriting competitions — French, Farsi and Arabic — with LSTM networks trained using Connectionist Temporal Classification, the first time a recurrent neural network won an international contest.
