Information Processing Techniques Office
- Information Processing Techniques Office
The Information Processing Techniques Office is an agency of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency whose stated mission is:
[To] create a new generation of computational and information systems that possess capabilities far beyond those of current systems. These cognitive systems - systems that know what they're doing:* will be able to reason, using substantial amounts of appropriately represented knowledge;
* will learn from their experiences and improve their performance over time;
* will be capable of explaining themselves and taking naturally expressed direction from humans;
* will be aware of themselves and able to reflect on their own behavior;
* will be able to respond robustly to surprises, in a very general way.
IPTO Research Projects
*BICA, an IPTO project attempting to create 'Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures".
*Bootstrapped Learning, a project attempting to bring about "instructable computing" by driving the creation of machine learning algorithms that are responsive to models of human-to-human instruction.
*LifeLog, an IPTO project "to trace the 'threads' of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships" by creating "an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person’s experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities."
*FORESTER, a program to develop a helicopter-borne radar system that can detect soldiers and vehicles moving underneith folliage cover.
External links
* [http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=87 Oral history interview with J. C. R. Licklider] at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Licklider was the first director of IPTO.
* [http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=100 Oral-history interview with Ivan Sutherland] at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Sutherland headed the IPTO in the mid-1960s and oversaw computer projects in graphics and networking, the ILLIAC IV, and the Macromodule program.
* [http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=94 Oral history interview with Lawrence G. Roberts] Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Roberts directed IPTO during 1968-1973
* [http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/ Official IPTO Homepage]
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