[humanmarkup-comment] Intimate Computers

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Title: PBS-Doc-kinesic

BTW and slightly offtopic but related, did anyone else watch the PBS special last

night, Alan Alda on Intimate Machines?   It provided interviews with a lot of the current

and former MIT MediaLab experimenters who are working directly in the field that

we are marking up with HumanML:  to wit, making computers understand and

relate to human social conventions.   It was illuminating in that each experimenter

had to narrow their experiments to certain aspects of this, in the use of sensors

and what a large but productive field that is for capturing the mood or intent

of the human, of the difficulties and successes of modeling communities

based on their gestures and behaviors (one using wolf packs), and so on.

 

If this comes on again, I highly recommend it.  This field is still in its infancy,

but given the support of folks like Stan Winston (fellow who did the Jurassic

Park 'bots), it will explode.   It closed with he and his MIT employee making

a mock (maybe not) fuss over who gets credit for the work.  Very human. :-)

 

len

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