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Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Advancing Human Performance and Decision-Making through Adaptive Systems: 8th International Conference, AC 2014, ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)   Active This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Augmented Cognition, AC 2014, held as part of HCI International 2014 which took place in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in June 2014 and incorporated 14 conferences which similar thematic areas. HCII 2014 received a total of 4766 submissions, of which 1476 papers and 220 posters were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process.

Cognitive Computing   Active Recounts the history of artificial intelligence and explores the central problems of philosophy and linguistics involved in developing a machine that can formulate new information on the basis of experience

The Era of Congnitive Computing: Calling for a shared research agenda   Active Over the course of the 70+-year history of computing, government, academia and industry have joined forces repeatedly to bring cutting-edge science to bear on the some of the major challenges of the day—and, in each case, computer science has played an important role. Among those remarkable efforts were the Manhattan Project, the Space Race, and the Human Genome Project

Neurosynaptic chips - Building blocks for cognitive systems   Active The SyNAPSE project In many ways computers today are nothing more than very fast number-crunchers and information manipulators. They can process lots of data, but they really don’t think. They all adhere to the Von Neumann architecture, largely unchanged in the last half-century, in which computers are constructed by separating memory and processing and operate by executing a series of pre-written "if X then do Y" equations. With the advent of Big Data, which grows larger, faster and more diverse by the day, this type of computing model is inadequate to process and make sense of the volumes of information that people and organizations need to deal with.

Cognitive computing can take the semantic Web to the next level   Active As big data analytics pushes deeper into cognitive computing, it needs to bring the semantic Web into the heart of this new age. The IT industry is approaching a point where we'll soon need to distinguish between "cognitive" and "semantic" computing. The terms are blurring into each other. Actually, the distinctions among them have never been clear. Sometimes it's even easier to refer to them both by the even vaguer "smart computing" to allude to the practical magic they enable.

Transforming engagement with customers   Active Cognitive systems like IBM Watson, transform how organizations think, act, and operate in the future with technologies which leverage natural language, hypothesis generation and evidence-based learning. Watson Engagement Advisor helps organizations know their customers better based on their past history

IBM brings in academic superstars to move cognitive computing beyond Watson   Active IBM is teaming with MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to advance the state of the art in building smarter computer systems. Their research ranges from automatically classifying text and images to human-computer interaction.

Cognitive Computing & Mind uploading   Active Cognitive computing refers to the development of computer systems modeled after the human brain. Originally referred to as artificial intelligence, researchers began to use the term cognitive computing instead in the 1990s, to indicate that the science was designed to teach computers to think like a human mind, rather than developing an artificial system. Cognitive computing integrates technology and biology in an attempt to re-engineer the brain, one of the most efficient and effective computers on Earth.

The Era of Cognitive Systems: An Inside Look at IBM Watson and How it Works   Active Learn how cognitive systems, such as IBM Watson, can transform how organizations think, act, and operate Understand the natural language processing capabilities and more of IBM Watson See how evidence-based responses can drive better outcomes

Watson (computer)   Active Watson is an artificially intelligent computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language,[2] developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM's first CEO and well-known business reformator Thomas J. Watson.[3][4] The computer system was specifically developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy!.[5] In 2011, Watson competed on Jeopardy! against former winners Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings.[3][6] Watson received the first prize of $1 million.[7]

IBM Watson Ecosystem   Active The IBM Watson Ecosystem empowers you to develop “Powered by IBM Watson” cognitive capabilities in your applications. The IBM Watson Ecosystem will help drive innovation and build creative cognitive solutions. It partners you with experience, offerings, domain knowledge and presence with IBM’s technology, tools, brand, and marketing, all offered through the Watson Developer Cloud, Watson Content Store and the Watson Talent Hub

An Ecosystem of Innovation: Creating Cognitive Applications Powered by Watson   Active Organizations are seeking the next groundbreaking app that can move beyond the restraints of standardized menus and responses to have an intelligent, interactive dialogue with the user. They are looking for a combination of human intuition and machine intelligence that possesses the ability to answer questions they were previously unable to answer. While the apps will differ in concept, purpose, and market, the modus operandi is the same.

Creating Cognitive Applications Powered by Watson: Getting started with the API   Active Cognitive computing systems are built to learn from how they are used and adapt to their processing. They provide insight into content; offer context specific responses and guidance, and learn through iterative feedback cycles. While there are numerous ways to understand and extract meaningful information from structured data, the process of understanding and making sense of unstructured data is in its infancy. It requires systems to cull through and analyze complex and heterogeneous content sources to identify vague and abstruse information, patterns and relationships.

Transforming the Way Organizations Think with Cognitive Systems   Active Cognitive systems can transform how organizations think, act, and operate: ! They can combine natural language processing, hypothesis generation and evaluation, and dynamic learning for a powerful, fast, and accurate solution. ! They can help to understand the complexities of unstructured data. ! They can apply advanced analytics to weigh and evaluate responses.

Brain and Cognitive Sciences   Active The human brain is the most complex, sophisticated, and powerful information-processing device known. To study its complexities, the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology combines the experimental technologies of neurobiology, neuroscience, and psychology, with the theoretical power that comes from the fields of computational neuroscience and cognitive science

Cognitive Science @ University of Toronto   Active Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of thought and other mental phenomena in humans and machines. It encompasses work done in computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Drawing on the concepts, theories, and methodologies of these disciplines, cognitive scientists seek to understand perception, language, learning, reasoning, and consciousness in both biological and machine information-processing systems (in other words, in both brains and computers).

CUbiC Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing   Active The Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing at Arizona State University is an inter-disciplinary research center focused on cutting edge research targeting a variety of applications

Artificial Life Laboratory   Active The AL lab at the Department of Zoology at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz is an interdisciplinary workgroup, consisting of 10-15 scientists that investigate Artificial-Life topics from various perspectives and with a huge variety of tools and approaches. The studies performed in the group

Cognitive Engineering Center (CEC)   Active Cognitive engineering focuses on the analysis, design, and evaluation of complex socio-technical systems of people and technology such as air/ground transportation and military systems. It combines knowledge and experience from the cognitive and computer sciences, human factors, human-computer interaction, and systems engineering.

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence   Active While people have talked about collective intelligence for decades, new communication technologies—especially the Internet—now allow huge numbers of people all over the planet to work together in new ways. The successes of systems like Google and Wikipedia suggest that the time is now ripe for many more such systems, and the goal of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is to understand how to take advantage of these possibilities.

ICCS 2015 : International Conference on Cognitive Systems   Active The ICCS 2015: International Conference on Cognitive Systems aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Cognitive Systems. It also provides the premier interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the field of Cognitive Systems.
September 28, 2015

Third Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems   Active We are currently in the process of organizing the Third Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems. This meeting aims to bring together researchers with interests in human-level intelligence, complex cognition, integrated intelligent systems, cognitive architectures, and related topics. The purpose is to provide a venue for research on the initial goals of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, which aimed to explain the mind in computational terms and to reproduce the entire range of human cognitive abilities in computational artifacts. Because many researchers remain committed to this original vision, there is need for a meeting that provides a place to present recent results and pose new challenges for the field
May 29, 2015

The Seventh International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications - COGNITIVE 2015   Active BRAIN: Brain information processing and informatics; COGNITION: Artificial intelligence and cognition; AGENTS: Agent-based adaptive systems; AUTONOMY: Autonomous systems and autonomy-oriented computing; APPLICATIONS
March 22, 2015

ICCWNC 2015 : International Conference on Cognitive Wireless Networks and Communications (ICCWNC)   Active The ICCWNC 2015 : International Conference on Cognitive Wireless Networks and Communications is the premier interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Cognitive Wireless Networks and Communications. The conference will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars
January 23, 2015

International Workshop on Cognitive Computing and Applications (COGNITIVE-2014)   Active Cognitive computing is an emerging paradigm of intelligent computing methodologies and systems that implements computational intelligence by autonomous inferences and perceptions mimicking the mechanisms of the brain. It is emerged and developed based on the transdisciplinary research in cognitive informatics and abstract intelligence. There are many open problems to be addressed and to be defined. The International Workshop on Cognitive Computing and Applications (IWCA-2014) provides a forum for researchers and scientists to present and share their latest research findings in this emerging paradigm. IWCA-2014 is affiliated with Third International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2014), Delhi, India.
September 24, 2014

Cognitive Systems: Visions and Technical Directions   Active 1. Cognitive Systems: Vision & Technical Directions September 12, 2014 For more information Contact: spohrer@us.ibm.com Website: http://www.cognitive-science.info 9/12/2014 (c) IBM 2014 1 •2. Brief History of AI 1956 – Dartmouth Conference 1956 – 1981 Micro-Worlds 1981 – Japanese 5th Generation 1988 – Expert Systems Peak 1990 – AI Winter 1997 – IBM Deep Blue 1997 – 2011 Real-World 2011 – Jeopardy! & SIRI 2013 – Cognitive Systems Institute 2014 – Watson Business 2015 – “Cognition as a Service” 9/12/2014 (c) IBM 2014 2 •3. Vision: Augment & Scale Expertise 9/12/2014 (c) IBM 2014 3 •4. Cognitive Assistants - Occupations 9/12/2014 (c) IBM 2014 4 • 5. Biochemist/Biochemical Engineer 9/12/2014 (c) IBM 2014 5 • 6. Occupations = Many Tasks 9/12/2014 (c) IBM 2014 6
September 14, 2014

Cognitive Computer Chip Apes Brain Architecture   Active At the size of a postage stamp, the TrueNorth chip contains 1 million programmable neurons, and is more than 1,000 times as energy efficient as a conventional chip, according to a study published online Thursday in the journal Science.
August 08, 2014

IBM creates new SyNAPSE chip to further cognitive computing   Active IBM unveiled Thursday a neurosynaptic computer chip that it says will open new computing possibilities for cloud, mobile and distributed sensor applications. What's Hot on ZDNet Apple, kindly fix your Wi-Fi on iOS Best Android smartphones (August 2014 edition) What is Docker and why is it so darn popular? How often should you conduct penetration testing? Built with non-von Neumann computer architecture, IBM said the postage stamp-sized chip achieves an unprecedented scale of one million programmable neurons, 256 million programmable synapses and 46 billion synaptic operations per second, per watt.
August 07, 2014

Brain-Inspired Computing Reaches a New Milestone   Active For the past few years, tech companies and academic researchers have been trying to build so-called neuromorphic computer architectures—chips that mimic the human brain’s ability to be both analytical and intuitive in order to deliver context and meaning to large amounts of data. Now the leading effort to develop such a system has achieved a new milestone, producing a 5.4-billion transistor chip with more than 4,000 neurosynaptic cores.
August 07, 2014

Simulation, Modeling, and Applied Cognitive Science   Active Simulation, modeling and applied cognitive science describes a growing transdisciplinary field (including the disciplines of psychology, engineering and computer science) that explores how people interact with technological and social systems in contexts that include transportation, medicine, military, computing and other complex systems. Cognitive science provides the foundation necessary for integrating human capabilities and limitations into complex sociotechnical systems (i.e., the practice of cognitive engineering), and the application of cognitive science relies heavily on simulation and modeling methods
August 01, 2014

AAAI'14 Workshop on Cognitive Computing for Augmented Human Intelligence   Active The workshop seeks to augment human decision making by exploiting synergies across two areas of AI research where exciting research progress has been made in recent years, but which so far have not had an explicit common venue. The first area has to do with powerful new learning techniques that may have the potential to automatically learn complex tasks by directly training on massive amounts of raw data, much of which may be unlabeled
July 27, 2014

Cognitive Systems Institute   Active About the Cognitive Systems Institute Group The Cognitive Systems Institute highlights the efforts of faculty and researchers tackling grand challenge problems to increase our understanding of cognitive systems, with... more » Have something to say? Join LinkedIn for free to participate in the conversation. When you join, you can comment and post your own discussions.
July 16, 2014

JIBO: The World's First Family Robot   Active We are so excited about bringing JIBO to life, and can't wait to share him with you. Cynthia Breazeal CEO of JIBO, Inc. talks about campaign updates and stretch goals. You can learn more here: http://myjibo.com
July 16, 2014

Hands-Free Driving Coming to New Cars Starting in 2015   Active Even supposing self-using automobiles could also be most popularly related to Google’s so much-talked-about prototypes and main automakers, a brand new startup is having a look to disrupt the whole area with a device that you could connect to any car
June 24, 2014

SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION (DCC'14 or DCC14)   Active This biennial conference series provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories in design. The conference proceedings will form a continuing archive of design computing and cognition research. The conference will be preceded by a series of state-of-the-art half-day workshops on specialist topics in design computing and cognition
June 23, 2014

Hands-Free Driving Coming to New Cars Starting in 2015   Active Although self-driving cars may be most popularly associated with Google's much-talked-about prototypes and major automakers, a new startup is looking to disrupt the entire space with a system you can attach to any vehicle
June 23, 2014

First Annual Cognitive Computing Forum Launched by DATAVERSITY   Active The team here at DATAVERSITYâ„¢, along with our sister site SemanticWeb.com, is proud to invite our readers to the first ever Cognitive Computing Forum in San Jose, CA, this August: ”This two-day conference was developed to help attendees understand the new world of Cognitive Analytics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reasoning and next generation Artificial Intelligence. Visit www.cognitivecomputingforum.com to view speakers, the agenda, registration options, and to learn more about this unique event.”
June 19, 2014

Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making   Active The focus of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making (JCEDM), is on research that seeks to understand how people engage in cognitive work in real-world settings and the development of systems that support that
June 01, 2014

The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications   Active BRAIN: Brain information processing and informatics COGNITION: Artificial intelligence and cognition AGENTS: Agent-based adaptive systems
May 25, 2014

Cognitive Computing Systems: An Important Cog in the Internet of Things Machine   Active “One day,” Steve Rosenbush writes, “sensors will be embedded in all sorts of objects and machines, collecting data and communicating across what is known, aspirationally, as the Internet of Things.” ["The Internet of Things Is Coming, But We Don’t Know When," Wall Street Journal, 27 March 2014] I’m a bit surprised that Rosenbush asserts that the Internet of Things (IoT) is just an aspiration
May 05, 2014