Pentagon pushes for computerized speaking assistant</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Pentagon pushes for computerized speaking assistant"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Pentagon,pushes,for,computerized,speaking,assistant"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">13-06-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Pentagon pushes for computerized speaking assistant</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_f5SVkeFNlUvLeZBf48wk_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Washington, USA (Pioneer Press): Researchers at the Pentagon want to build an electronic system that understands human language, takes and remembers instructions, learns from its experiences and copes with unexpected situations. <br>Although the duties seem routine, creating a software program to do them is a difficult challenge. Artificial-intelligence experts have struggled for years to make machines perform functions that are simple for people but stump such electronic devices. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/11868741.htm " target="blank">www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/11868741.htm </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show