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[ontolog-admin] Re: Ontolog Invited Speaker - Adam Cheyer - Thu 2006.05.

To: Adam Cheyer <adam.cheyer@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-admin]" <ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:21:04 -0700
Message-id: <444171D0.2070007@xxxxxxxx>
Adam,    (01)

Thank you very much. This is great! I'll let you know once the 
session page is up on our wiki, so that you can add other 
information that is pertinent to the talk, as you deem necessary.    (02)

Thanks & regards.  =ppy
--    (03)


Adam Cheyer wrote Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:59:17 -0700:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Here is some information for my talk.
> 
> Regards, Adam    (04)


> "Ontology Management in CALO, A Cognitive Assistant that Learns and 
> Organizes"    (05)

> 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.    (06)

> In this talk, we will first provide an overview of CALO: the what, the 
> how, the why. Next, we will discuss the engineering methods we use to 
> develop and maintain the ontology of CALO.  CALO has some unusual 
> requirements, such as "Concept Learning" where the ontology is extended 
> and modified "in-the-wild" by machine learning algorithms.  Finally, we 
> will demonstrate IRIS, a semantic desktop that serves as the office 
> environment that integrates best with CALO.  IRIS leverages many of 
> CALO's techniques to ontology management, and being open source, 
> provides a distributable, transparent example of the approach.    (07)

> Bio:
> Adam Cheyer is currently a Program Director in SRI's Artificial 
> Intelligence Center, where he serves as
> Chief Architect of the CALO/PAL project, an ambitious effort to create a 
> next-generation personal cognitive
> assistant. Previously, Mr. Cheyer was VP of Engineering at Dejima, a 
> provider of natural interaction technology
> for mobile applications, and before that, VP of Engineering at 
> Verticalnet, an enterprise software provider.
> As Senior Scientist and Co-Director of the Computer Human Interaction 
> Center (CHIC) at SRI International,
> Mr. Cheyer led a multidisciplinary team of researchers exploring web 
> services, distributed knowledge, and
> pervasive computing.    (08)

> More information can be found at http://www.adam.cheyer.com    (09)

> Picture: http://www.adam.cheyer.com/images/acheyerphoto2.gif
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