Home appliances:
Roomba, robotic vacuum cleaner.
Assembly line robots:
ABB
or
Robots.com
Machine Vision Inspection, e.g. Omron or Cognex, (Natick, MA)
Face Recognition. First success: ViiSAGE Face Recognition. Now industry leader: NEC Face Recognition
Microscopy image analysis, e.g., for embryology or human semen analysis, Proiser
Optical Character Recognition: Edit, convert, and compare scanned documents and "born-digital" PDFs
Search by Image: Google Image. First success: Boston University's Image Rover.
Search by Video: Google Video.
Generating Images: Playground AI, DALL-E2 by OpenAI, Midjourney
Waymo Autonomous Ride-hailing Service
Self-driving Cars in San Francisco: Fire chief protests and street rebels immobilize driverless car.
Mary 1997: Deep Blue and Chess,
February 2011: Watson, IBM's Jeopardy! (= American TV quiz show) playing computing system. Now used for legal and medical research.
March 2016: Google's AI won the game Go: AlphaGo
Expert Systems for Healthcare
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) for Hospitals: In 2017, IBM bought Merge Healthcare Inc (which bought Boston-based Amicas in 2010) and their PACS system.
IBM Watson helping to fight cancer
Assistive Technologies: Camera Mouse
Speech Recognition, Intelligent Personal Assistants, Large Language Models
Some history: Emacs "M-x doctor" and the Eliza Chat bot
Early Speech Recognition: Dragon Naturally Speaking. Now Nuance Intelligent Virtual Assistant" Newton, MA.
Intelligent Personal Assistants:
Large Language Models:
Notable alumni/ae who were my research advisees:
Angshuman Bagchi: AI Tools & Business Software (Sigma Computing)
Danna Gurari: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human Computation, Assistive Technology (University of Colorado)
Mehrnoosh Sameki: Responsible AI Tools (Microsoft Azure AI)
Diane Theriault: Video Analysis of Group Behavior, 3D Tracking, Microscopy Imaging (Google)
Jingbin Wang: Artificial Intelligence Products (Google)
Zheng Wu: Selfdriving Cars (AutoX)
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Margrit Betke, Professor
Computer Science Department
Boston University
Email: betke @ bu.edu
URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/betke
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