Cool stuff

Today in my Multi Agent Systems class we were offered to try out some of our stuff (Multi-Agent Game theory, mostly) for the new DARPA Grand challenge. It's about Junior!

(You might want to look at the old material, particularly this is, ahem, funny (75 Mb video, careful, (my) Firefox tried to display it; use "Save As..." - but just funny) ;-) ).
We can do that for the paper that is due to pass the class (you need to do an exam and problem sets, too).

And then I was at a talk by Rana el Kaliouby, from MIT. That's really cool stuff: her software is recognizing facial expressions! :-) She's devised it to train autists about facial expressions. Autists are not disinterested in this stuff (they tend to look to the floor and cannot empathize - meaning feel with other people, communicate adequately and generally act socially), but are just overhelmed by the input from the environment. She teaches them slowly by showing them how they reacted and how the other people reacted in different situations and what that meant - this last part comes from the computer!
There's other applications - more later I guess :-)

Now what do I do? Only 3 weeks of the quarter left...