AI's New Brain Wave
New research in artificial intelligence could lay the groundwork for computer systems that learn from their users and the world around them. Part four in The Future Of Software series.
Aaron Ricadela, InformationWeek, April 25, 2005
Artificial intelligence, a field that has tantalized social scientists and high-tech researchers since the dawn of the computer industry, had lost its sex appeal by the start of the last decade. . .
Now a new generation of researchers hopes to rekindle interest in AI.
PARC's user-interface group published a paper in January describing new software called ScentHighlights that helps users skim information by extracting key sentences from an electronic book, relevant to keywords a user types in or clicks on in the text. The system, based on a PARC theory called information scent, is part of an emerging class of user interfaces that react to what gets a user's attention, says Stuart Card, manager for user-interface research and a senior research fellow at PARC.
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