Language teaching game

Self-configuring robot

 

ISI operates one of the world’s largest and most respected artificial intelligence groups.  We explore disciplines vital to learning and knowledge – natural language, education and information integration – with broad societal and technological implications.  

Efforts range from highly individual, like easing foreign language learning and personalizing kindergarten-through-12th-grade education, to such broad applications as supporting large-scale science and high-end computing.  Intelligent Systems also includes adaptive robotics, virtual humans, “serious games” and other leading-edge technologies.

Research focuses on:  

• Natural language
• Knowledge representation and acquisition
• Scalable data mining and integration
• Virtual humans
• Robotics
• Novel learning architectures
• Cognitive development and education

Among our current projects:

• Robotics:  SuperBot modular, self-reconfiguring robots for search-and-recovery, space exploration and other tasks
  • Tactical Language Learning: Teaching foreign language and culture in an entertaining game environment
  • PsychSim: Agent-based modeling of human social behavior
  • Syntax-directed machine translation
  • Wings: Scientific workflows to manage large distributed computations
     

Division:

Intelligent Systems