Artificial Intelligence (AI) has four seasons: hype, disappointment, funding drought, and renewed interest. I’ve been involved in AI research for quite some time—I became a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1993—and I’ve weathered…
Back to Cyber – 3: Now and Future
Social Life Networks In our research group, we are developing a framework that we termed Social Life networks because this is a network of people, sensors, and actuators to solve important social life problems, such as emergency response, traffic management,…
Back to Cyber – 2: Computational Cybernetics
From computational perspective, there are the following major steps in building a cybernetic system: • Building model of the system • Measuring appropriate parameters continuously • Estimating State • Deciding actions to be applied to the system The easiest to…
Back to Cyber – 1
With advances in computing, we now live in the cyber space, talk about Cyber-Physical systems, and have started thinking about Cyber-Physical-Social systems. Cyber has become almost synonymous with Internet and the Web. Social computing is taking us back to the…
Objective Self 6: From an individual to society
An individual is just an individual. And each individual is unique. In a human society, individuals interact and associate in many ways. Also, many human beings are related to each other along many dimensions ranging from their living area, profession,…