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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Curriculum for Cognitive Science

Fascinating new discussion I am participating in is underway.  Follow along.   Will pass along excerpts here.

A New “Science of Cognitive Computing” Curriculum
Posted by Jim Spohrer ...

Currently, I am working on a new “science of cognitive computing” curriculum for IBM with our partner universities and others to allow people of all ages to design, build, understand, and work with cognitive mediators.  The curriculum is inspired in part by the work of Douglas Engelbart, an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer, who urged us to work quickly to augment human intellect to address complex, urgent problems.

Initially,  we plan to use the curriculum to show people how to design and build cognitive mediators that augment their personal and professional memories and suggest profitable connections and conversations between people – a type of relationship-oriented computing.   Later, we plan to use the curriculum to help people understand how intelligence (capabilities to perform useful tasks) develops in people and machines using specific data sets and learning algorithms, both unsupervised (evolution) and supervised (culture) algorithms.  Finally, we plan to use the curriculum to help people explore how best to work with their cognitive mediators, individually and collectively. ... " 

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