Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
Project
Self-Managing PowerPoint Presentation
PowerPoint plugin prototype that adds Speech and Gesture recognition for navigating slides and animation during a presentation. Presenter performs one or more rehearsals while being recorded by the Kinect. Gestures / body movements are automatically extracted…
Publication
A Characterization of Prediction Errors
Project
Face Recognition Mobile App for Enterprise
Internal experimental app on Windows Mobile, using our then-new Face Recognition SDK to recognize employees. Goal was to investigate how many reference images were necessary for accurate recognition, experiment with ways to smooth the registration experience,…
Video
Co-Evolution of Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence
Throughout history, human beings have developed tools and technologies which help civilizations evolve and grow. Computers, and by extension, artificial intelligence, has played important roles in that continum of technologies. Recently artificial intelligence has garnered…
Video
Democratizing Urban Data Analysis
Today, 50% of the world’s population lives in cities and the number will grow to 70% by 2050. Cities are the loci of economic activity and the source of innovative solutions to 21st century challenges.…
Video
A Science of Cyber – Security?
Cyber-security today is focused largely on defending against known attacks. We learn about the latest attack and find a patch to defend against it. Our defenses thus improve only after they have been successfully penetrated.…
Video
Learning at Scale as a Driver of Innovation
How can we educate the world’s population in a scalable, affordable way? This question is driving fascinating research at the intersection of human-computer interaction, social computing, natural language processing, machine learning, and learning sciences. …
