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: All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Robots Podcast 107 : Mary-Anne Williams Posted 30 Jun 2012 at 17:41 UTC by John_RobotsPodcast Professor Mary-Anne Williams came to robotics through RoboCup Her background began in computer science , from which she moved to AI , with a primary interest in knowledge representation and reasoning , having done some work in belief revision how to update a knowledge base when you receive new or contradictory information In 2001, she attended the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI with which RoboCup was co-located and was captivated by the Sony AIBO then used as players in RoboCup soccer She was also impressed with how much progress there'd been since the first