The presentations from this year's workshop are now online!
View them on the Agenda page:

http://www.sandia.gov/cog.systems/cognitive_workshop/agenda.htm

Currently, the term "Cognitive Systems" is used broadly to refer to technologies that range
the spectrum of AI, Expert Systems and Human Machine Interaction. A more delimiting
definition is offered that describes a Cognitive System as follows:

"A Cognitive System is one that utilizes psychologically plausible computational
representations of human cognitive processes as a basis for system designs that seek to
engage the underlying mechanisms of human cognition and augment the cognitive capacities
of human users, not unlike a "cognitive prosthesis."

In this definition, emphasis is placed on psychologically plausible machine-based
representations and it is this emphasis that is believed important in distinguishing a new
family of technology solutions from the bulk of ongoing activities in AI, expert systems,
intelligent systems, agents, etc. Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New
Mexico are co-hosting a workshop to explore current thinking and activities with regard to
the above understanding of a cognitive system.

This workshop should be of interest to those concerned with development of systems in
which humans play a vital role and there is an objective for systems to adapt and respond
to human operators in an intelligent manner.

Through this workshop, we seek to bridge the following topical areas within the single
technical discipline of Cognitive Systems:

• physiological and behavioral indicators of operator cognitive state

• computational models of human cognition

• automated knowledge capture

• operator cognitive state inference and system adaptation

• augmented cognition

• product applications
  

The workshop will be held July 6th - July 8th in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

We are requesting abstracts for paper presentations, posters and demonstrations.
Abstracts are due by March 30th 2005 and may be submitted to Sidney Holman (spholma@sandia.gov).

 

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