Thursday, January 05, 2006

Artificial Intelligence, the Web and Knowledge Systems

I SO wish I could be in Silicon Valley on January 12. This looks like it is going to be tres interesting.

From PARC:

PARC Forum: January 12, 2006, 4:00 p.m., George E. Pake Auditorium, Palo Alo, CA , USA

AI meets Web 2.0: Building The Web Of Tomorrow Today


Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, Chairman, CommerceNet and Director, Webify Solutions, Inc. & Medstory, Inc.

Imagine an Internet-scale Knowledge System where people and intelligent agents can collaborate on solving complex problems in business, engineering, science, medicine, and other endeavors. Its resources include semantically tagged Websites, Wikis and Blogs, as well as social networks, vertical Search engines and a vast array of Web services from business processes to AI planners and domain models.

Research prototypes of decentralized knowledge systems have been demonstrated for years, but now, thanks to the Web and Moore's Law, they appear ready for prime time. I will introduce the architectural concepts for incrementally growing an Internet-scale knowledge system, and describe early commercial deployments in manufacturing and healthcare.

Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum is a world-renowned Internet commerce pioneer and visionary. He was founder and CEO of Enterprise Integration Technologies, the first company to conduct a commercial Internet transaction (1992), secure Web transaction (1993) and Internet auction (1993). In 1994, he founded CommerceNet to accelerate business use of the Internet. In 1997, he co-founded Veo Systems, the company that pioneered the use of XML for automating business-to-business transactions.

Dr. Tenenbaum joined Commerce One in January 1999, when it acquired Veo Systems. As Chief Scientist, he was instrumental in shaping the company's business and technology strategies for the Global Trading Web. Earlier in his career, Dr. Tenenbaum was a prominent AI researcher, and led AI research groups at SRI International and Schlumberger Ltd.

Dr. Tenenbaum is a Fellow and former board member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a former Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. He currently serves as an officer and director of Webify Solutions and Medstory Inc., and is a Consulting Professor of Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon's new West Coast campus.

Dr. Tenenbaum holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and a Ph.D. from Stanford.

From the American Association for Artificial Intelligence:

IAAI-05 Invited Talk:
AI Meets Web 2.0: Building The Web of Tomorrow Today
Jay M. Tenenbaum, Chairman, CommerceNet

Imagine an Internet-scale knowledge system where people and intelligent agents can collaborate on solving complex problems in business, engineering, science, medicine, and other endeavors. Its resources include semantically tagged Web sites, wikis and blogs, as well as social networks, vertical search engines and a vast array of Web services from business processes to AI planners and domain models. Research prototypes of decentralized knowledge systems have been demonstrated for years, but now, thanks to the Web and Moore’s law, they appear ready for prime time. Tenenbaum will introduce the architectural concepts for incrementally growing an Internet-scale knowledge system, and describe early commercial deployments in manufacturing and healthcare.

Marty Tenenbaum spent the 1970s at SRI's AI Center leading vision research, the 1980s at Schlumberger managing AI Labs, and the 1990s founding a string of successful Internet commerce companies, ultimately serving as chief scientist of Commerce One. He now splits his time between two Internet healthcare startups—Webify Solutions and Medstory—and nonprofit CommerceNet, where he's returning to his AI roots, helping others pursue bold visions for making the Web more useful and intelligent.

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