[Sigia-l] Fwd: PCD 12/9/05 - CALO: A Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes

[Livia Labate]

Last one of Terry Winograd's series this winter that might be of 
interest to you. FYI, if you miss the live stream, you can stream the 
video later - it stays in the archive for a couple of months.

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Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar
Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN, 12:30-2:00pm PDT (UTC 19:30)
Video: http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/students/courseList.asp CS547
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Friday, December 9, 2005

December 9, 2005 - Adam Cheyer, SRI International
adam.cheyer at sri.com
http://www.adam.cheyer.com/about.html

TITLE: CALO: A Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes

ABSTRACT :
CALO is one of DARPA's most ambitious efforts to develop a persistent 
assistant that lives with, learns from, and supports users in managing 
the complexities of their daily work lives. A multi-year project that 
unites  some 200+ researchers from 25 academic and commercial 
organizations, the goal is to produce a single system where learning 
happens "in vivo", inside an ever-evolving agent that can observe, 
comprehend, reason, anticipate, act, and communicate.

This talk will provide an overview of CALO: the what, the how, the why.
We'll cover CALO's six major functional areas (organize information,
prepare information artifacts, mediate communications, schedule and
optimize time, manage tasks, aquire and allocate resources) and the 
kinds of learning that takes place during these functions. We'll also 
discuss  what it's like to interact with CALO and some of the design 
choices made in building the system.

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Adam Cheyer is Program Director of the Cognitive
Computing Group in SRI's
AI Center. Previously, Adam served as VP of Engineering at Verticalnet
(VERT) and at Dejima (acquired by Sybase).

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THIS IS THE LAST WEEK OF THE FALL SERIES
We'll start again on January  13.
For the tentative Winter Quarter schedule see
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/05winter.html