{"id":2283,"date":"2020-02-05T16:45:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T16:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2020-02-28T12:54:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T12:54:43","slug":"artificial-intelligence-prize-for-colin-johnsons-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2020\/02\/05\/artificial-intelligence-prize-for-colin-johnsons-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Prize for Colin Johnson&#8217;s Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/cgj\/\">Colin Johnson<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0won a prestigious BCS prize for his research in the field of artificial\u00a0intelligence. He was presented with the award for one of the three best\u00a0papers at the annual BCS AI conference in December run by BCS, the\u00a0Chartered Institute for IT.<\/p>\n<p>The paper entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/kar.kent.ac.uk\/78198\/\">Stepwise Evolutionary Learning using Deep Learned\u00a0Guidance Functions<\/a> discussed the design\u00a0of a new approach to artificial intelligence, where the computer\u00a0generalises from a collection of solutions to a problem in order to\u00a0tackle the problem in general.<\/p>\n<p>Colin explained: &#8220;This approach was applied to train the computer to\u00a0solve the Rubik&#8217;s Cube puzzle; the program learned what an almost solved\u00a0cube looked like, then what a slightly less solved cube looked like, and\u00a0so on. Then, given a scrambled cube, it could work out how to unscramble\u00a0the cube step-by-step &#8211; reducing the cube to a slightly less scrambled\u00a0state, then an even less scrambled state, and so on until the problem\u00a0was solved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This work potentially opens out new approaches to a wide variety of\u00a0problems, such as understanding how to untangle proteins in biology,\u00a0solving complex business planning problems, and removing noise from\u00a0historical video and audio recordings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Johnson\u00a0has\u00a0won a prestigious BCS prize for his research in the field of artificial\u00a0intelligence. He was presented with the award for one of the three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2020\/02\/05\/artificial-intelligence-prize-for-colin-johnsons-research\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":2285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[980,124],"tags":[26854,57971,57903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}