Word: learning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...really don't know much about the UC at all," said E. Clarke Tucker '03, who will be filling one of the three vacancies in Cabot House. "I just want to learn how it works and then go from there...
...said he was "quite happy" to learn that he was a winner. He has extensive research experience in computer science. For four summers, he has worked at Bell Labs, completely revamping the company's graphics system. He is interested in the use of file system abstractions to simplify programs and the interfaces between them...
...wanted it to develop. There are two rival schools about ways to build robots. One holds that robotmakers should decide in advance what knowledge and skills they want their robots to have and then program them accordingly. Breazeal has a different view. She thinks robots should be designed to learn from experience and from their environment. This socially situated learning, as it is called, allows Kismet to learn much like a human baby would...
...problem is, robots have fewer opportunities than babies to learn from their environment. Humans spend a great deal of time talking to and nurturing young people. Robots do not get that kind of attention and outside stimulation. "We don't learn in impoverished educational environments, but that's what we expect the robot to do," she says. Breazeal has tried to provide Kismet with the tools to engage in this kind of socially situated learning...
Despite all the help from Breazeal, Kismet still has a lot to learn. Breazeal is working on helping the computer with some simple skills that human babies are hardwired for. She wants Kismet to be able to use the information it learns. One day, she hopes, when Kismet is told the name of a toy, it will later be able to ask for it by name. "Through more interactions, Kismet could learn, 'When I'm in this state, I can take this action that leads to a person's taking this behavior and getting my needs satiated,'" Breazeal says...