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Article about Neuroph and its application for image recognition in game has been published on Slashdot.org That was the important step for promoting the project, since the project site got over 3000 visits and more than 300 downloads in just two days. As a result of that article, guys from the Java team from Gentoo Linux project will include Neuroph libraries in their distribution. Behind the scenes development continues, and we added important improvment to Backpropagation learning algorithm,  created image recognition tool, and new network types. All of these will be available to public soon  in next release.

Smiley Ontology is a new project, started by GOOD OLD AI undergraduates. The main objective of the project is to enable interchange of emoticons between different systems, without loss of their semantics, as well as to allow capturing and formal representation of semantics of emotions and emotional states that are widely spread across the Web. Find more information about the project here.

We are extremely proud to annonce that Dragan Gasevic, our member currently working in Canada, was awarded the prestigious Canada Research Chair in Semantic Technologies by the Canada Research Chairs Program! Just after the Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award, Dragan again proved the quality of his research in bringing the artificial intelligence and Web technologies together. Congratulations!

Dragan Gasevic, an associate research member of our network currently working as a researcher in Canada, was awarded the Alberta Ingenuity's 2008 New Faculty Award by the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, Canada. Congratulations, Dragan!

Dragan is hoping to produce technology that is effective in auto recognition (of topics and concepts), information and meaning extraction, and categorization that would be commercially viable for e-learning institutions as well as health care facilities, among others. Dragan describes his work as, “enabling software programs to speak in each other’s language, and thereby eliminating the need for users to purchase additional software programs.” Find more information about the project here.

It is an extreme pleasure to annonce that we have another PhD in our group - on Mar. 16, 2009, Goran Shimic has successfully and brilliantly defended his PhD thesis, Intelligent Learning Management Systems. Congratulations, Goran!

The new version 2.0.0a of the Java neural network framework Neuroph has been released recently. This version brings a new GUI network editor, new network architectures and learning rules, optimized code and much better documentation. Also, Jon Tait  who had successfully applied this framework in image processing in a game application,  now joined the development team. At the same time, Neuroph got listed on Softpedia and is getting download hits very quickly. We are actively continuing the development, in order to create an easy to use, rich platform for neural network development.

Read more about the Neuroph project here, or contact Zoran Sevarac.