Beating Common Sense into Interactive Applications
Speaker: Henry Lieberman , MIT Media Lab
Date: February 13 2004
Time: 1:30PM to 2:30PM
Location: NE43/941
Contact: David Huynh, 617.452.5041, dfhuynh@mit.edu
Abstract:
A long-standing dream of artificial intelligence has been to put common sense knowledge into computers-enabling machines to reason about everyday life. Some projects, such as Cyc, have begun to amass large collections of such knowledge. However, it is widely assumed that the use of common sense in interactive applications will remain impractical for years, until these collections can be considered sufficiently complete and common sense reasoning sufficiently robust.
Recently, at the MIT Media Lab, we have had some success in applying common sense knowledge in a number of intelligent Interface Agents, despite the admittedly spotty coverage and unreliable inference of today's common sense knowledge systems. This talk will survey several of these applications and reflect on interface design principles that enable successful use of common sense knowledge.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/Common-Sense/Common-Sense-Intro.html
Bio:
Henry Lieberman is a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, where he directs the Software Agents group. His interests are at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction. Some topics of his current interest are applying Common Sense knowledge to interactive applications, Programming by Example, proactive and learning agent interfaces, AI Programming environments, Debugging, Visualization, and educational applications.
He has edited the books, Your Wish is My Command: Programming by Example (2001); Spinning the Semantic Web (2003) ; and has a forthcoming book on End-User Development.
He was a Research Scientist at the MIT AI Lab from 1975-1987, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, 1989-91.
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