Frank L. Stein

A system for the delivery of interactive television programming

Interactive television is a technology for delivering television programming on demand to households and businesses. Rather than passively choosing from a predetermined set of programs at scheduled times, the viewer can request programming to be delivered to him individually on demand. This paper describes a system being developed by IBM that is in active use at customer trials. The system supports movies on demand as well as more interactive applications such as home shopping. This system as deployed today on IBMs RS/6000 series of computers supports in the hundreds of viewers, but running on the SP-2 supercomputer and its follow-ons, the system can be scaled to support thousands of interactive viewers.

Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications

The Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector symposium was held in Arlington, VA, USA, from November 12–14, 2015 as part of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium Series. The goal of this symposium was to present the state of cognitive assistance projects and to identify the opportunities and challenges of creating Cognitive Assistance (Cog) systems with an emphasis on the challenges and opportunities presented by Government and public sector applications. We hoped the outcome from the symposium could be used to scope a research agenda based on gaps in current capabilities.

Reports of the AAAI 2017 Fall Symposium Series

The AAAI 2017 Fall Symposium Series was held Thursday through Saturday, November 9–11, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia, adjacent to Washington, DC. The titles of the six symposia were Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction; Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications; Deep Models and Artificial Intelligence for Military Applications: Potentials, Theories, Practices, Tools, and Risks; Human-Agent Groups: Studies, Algorithms, and Challenges; Natural Communication for Human-Robot Collaboration; and A Standard Model of the Mind. The highlights of each symposium (except the Natural Communication for Human-Robot Collaboration symposium, whose organizers did not submit a report) are presented in this report. (Less)

The 2015 AAAI Fall Symposium Series Reports

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence presented the 2015 Fall Symposium Series, on Thursday through Saturday, November 12-14, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia. The titles of the six symposia were as follows: AI for Human-Robot Interaction, Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications, Deceptive and Counter-Deceptive Machines, Embedded Machine Learning, Self-Confidence in Autonomous Systems, and Sequential Decision Making for Intelligent Agents. This article contains the reports from four of the symposia.