1. Toward a truly personal computer
Pattie Maes
MIT Media Lab
Firefly Network, Inc

2. THE NEXT 50 YEARS OF COMPUTING
ACM 97
THE NEXT 50 YEARS OF COMPUTING

3. ACM 97 THE NEXT 50 YEARS OF COMPUTING
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4. PATTIE MAES

5. 50 years of ACM 50 years of AI Artificial Intelligence (AI):
goal: build intelligent machines
justification:
understand intelligence
practical applications

6. AI’s holy grail

7. Cog project (Brooks, MIT)

8. Cog project (Brooks, MIT)

9. Next 50 yrs: IA rather than AI?
Intelligence Augmentation:
human
+ machine
= super intelligence

10. Next 50 yrs: IA rather than AI?
Intelligence Augmentation:
human
+ machine
= super intelligence

11. History of prosthetics
Overcoming physical limitations:
glasses
hearing aids
cars
bicycles
voice synthesizers
...

12. Why do we need prosthetics for the mind?
Overcoming cognitive limitations:
lousy memory
only dealing with one thing at a time
probabilities, logic non-intuitive
slow to process large amounts of information
...

13. Why do we need prosthetics for the mind?
mismatch complexity of our lives & our cognitive abilities:
too many things to keep track of
information overload
learn & remember more
...

14. People are good at: judgement understanding reasoning, problem solving
creativity

15. Computers are good at: remembering lots of facts
searching lots of information
being in many places at once
multi-tasking

16. Some examples of intelligence augmentation
memory augmentation
“extra eyes, ears”
automation behavior patterns
information filtering
matchmakers
transactions

17. Remembrance agent (MIT Media Lab)

18. Remembrance agent (MIT Media Lab)

19. Memory augmentation help remember people, places, names, actions, ...
provide "just-in-time" information

20. Memory augmentation help remember people, places, names, actions, ...
provide "just-in-time" information

21. Remembrance agent

22. Extra eyes, ears, ... monitors for bits as well as atoms:
unusual price stocks
has certain site changed?
need more milk?
is there fresh coffee?
...

23. Extra eyes, ears, ... monitors for bits as well as atoms:
unusual price stocks
has certain site changed?
need more milk?
is there fresh coffee?
...

24. Automation behavior patterns (Media Lab)

25. Automation behavior patterns (Media Lab)

26. Information Filtering
personal
INFO information FILTERED INFO user
filter
user interest profile

27. Information Filtering
personal
INFO information FILTERED INFO user
filter
user interest profile

30. Yenta (MIT Media Lab)
agent
(user profile)

31. Yenta (MIT Media Lab)
agent
(user profile)

32. Kasbah (MIT Media Lab)

33. Kasbah example selling agent
Sell: Macintosh IIci
Deadline: March 10th,1997
Start price: $900.00
Min. price: $700.00
Strategy: tough bargainer
Location: local
Level of Autonomy: check before transaction
Reporting Method: event driven

34. Kasbah example selling agent
Sell: Macintosh IIci
Deadline: March 10th,1997
Start price: $900.00
Min. price: $700.00
Strategy: tough bargainer
Location: local
Level of Autonomy: check before transaction
Reporting Method: event driven

35. Putting it all together
Example scenarios:
monitoring agents & remembrance agents
shopping agents & matchmaking agents
eager assistants & filtering agents
...

36. Hardware: “wearable computers”

37. Hardware: “things that think”
embedded
sensors
processors
communications

38. Software: “Agents” Software that is: personalized proactive
autonomous, long-lived
adaptive

39. Software: “Digital Ecologies”
collections of people & machines:
perform tasks in radically distributed way
very adaptive
collaboration, competition, natural selection & evolution

40. “The network is the computer”TM
small efforts by many, rather than large efforts by few result in increased:
efficiency
adaptivity
robustness

41. Design challenges TRUST between human and computer: understanding
control
privacy

42. Design challenges TRUST between human and computer: understanding
control
privacy