ACM 97 "The Next 50 Years" On-line version produced by Microsoft Research and Dog & Pony Studios

Toward a truly personal computer

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Toward a truly personal computer

50 years of ACM50 years of AI

AI’s holy grail

Cog project (Brooks, MIT)

Cog project (Brooks, MIT)

Next 50 yrs: IA rather than AI?

Next 50 yrs: IA rather than AI?

History of prosthetics

Why do we need prosthetics for the mind?

Why do we need prosthetics for the mind?

People are good at:

Computers are good at:

Some examples of intelligence augmentation

Remembrance agent (MIT Media Lab)

Remembrance agent (MIT Media Lab)

Memory augmentation

Memory augmentation

Remembrance agent

Extra eyes, ears, ...

Extra eyes, ears, ...

Automation behavior patterns(Media Lab)

Automation behavior patterns(Media Lab)

Information Filtering

Information Filtering

Yenta (MIT Media Lab)

Yenta (MIT Media Lab)

Kasbah (MIT Media Lab)

Kasbah example selling agent

Kasbah example selling agent

Putting it all together

Hardware: “wearable computers”

Hardware: “things that think”

Software: “Agents”

Software: “Digital Ecologies”

“The network is the computer”TM

Design challenges

Design challenges

Author: Patty Maes

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