From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 06:49:18 MDT
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/08/030815074654.htm
Date:
2003-08-15
<<Sandia Team Develops Cognitive Machines -- Machines Accurately Infer User
Intent, Remember Experiences And Allow Users To Call Upon Simulated Experts
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A new type of "smart" machine that could fundamentally
change how people interact with computers is on the not-too-distant horizon at
the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.
Over the past five years a team led by Sandia cognitive psychologist Chris
Forsythe has been developing cognitive machines that accurately infer user
intent, remember experiences with users and allow users to call upon simulated
experts to help them analyze situations and make decisions.
"In the long term, the benefits from this effort are expected to include
augmenting human effectiveness and embedding these cognitive models into systems
like robots and vehicles for better human-hardware interactions," says John
Wagner, manager of Sandia's Computational Initiatives Department. "We expect to
be able to model, simulate and analyze humans and societies of humans for
Department of Energy, military and national security applications."
Synthetic human
The initial goal of the work was to create a "synthetic human" - software
program/computer - that could think like a person.
"We had the massive computers that could compute the large amounts of data,
but software that could realistically model how people think and make decisions
was missing," Forsythe says>>
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