This project aims to develop an intelligent personal-finance advisory agent that bridges the gap between the novice user and the expert m...
Story understanding is a notoriously difficult problem in AI. Broad-spectrum, common-sense knowledge about the world is a good resource, ...
Current experiments in agent software rely mostly on domain-specific applications that either have been programmed from scratch, or expli...
Common sense enables us to build innovative recommendation systems that are more interactive and user-friendly than traditional collabora...
Effective image annotation and retrieval is bound up with image use. In this project, annotation, retrieval, and use are integrated, faci...
Technical documentation for hardware and software is expensive to produce, and often inaccurate and inadequate. We are exploring a new ap...
Because common-sense knowledge differs culturally, misunderstandings frequently occur. Because differences can be subtle, there has been ...
The Open Mind Common Sense project has collected hundreds of thousands of statements of common-sense knowledge from volunteers on the Int...
Recognition-based technology has made substantial advances in the past few years because of enhanced algorithms and faster processing spe...
We are building a new kind of agent that acts as a user's assistant in browsing the World Wide Web. Many current Web tools perform search...
ToDoGo is a system for managing to-do lists on mobile devices. ToDoGo understands how to-do list entries relate to a user's everyday life...
Agent software can perform tasks automatically on behalf of a user, but how does the agent come to learn what the user wants? Sometimes t...
A CAPTCHA is a "Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." CAPTCHAs are tools used frequently to stop s...
GlobalMind is a network of multilingual/multicultural common-sense databases. Now we present how GlobalMind can enhance the communication...
Most story representation and annotation focuses on low-level annotations such as parts of speech. We are trying to annotate English prob...
Users don�t want to browse the Web on mobile devices, they want to complete actions. Adeo is an application that streamlines accessing th...
EventNet is the common-sense approach to goal planning. By extracting cause-effect and action-goal links from Open Mind Common Sense, we ...
The advent of PDAs, digital cameras, audio recorders, and wearables enables the collection of useful information in a variety of media. B...
When computers automatically generate video game environments, the result is often as simplistic as a randomly generated maze. Using the ...
Increasingly, software agents will need to detect certain kinds of semantically significant information that appear amidst a larger body ...
We are developing a new interface for text chat, to assist conversational partners who don't necessarily speak each others' languages per...
Electronic commerce on the Web is thriving, but consumers still have trouble finding products to meet their needs and desires. We introdu...
Most e-commerce sites today are little more than electronic catalogs of product offerings. Consumer input is limited to requirements ques...
MakeBelieve is a story-generation agent that uses common-sense knowledge to interactively compose short fictional texts with a user. A us...
A novice search-engine user may find searching the Web for information difficult and frustrating because he may naturally express search ...
ARIA (Annotation and Retrieval Integration Agent) is a software agent that acts as an assistant to a user writing email or Web pages. As ...
Current voice-recognition software relies on statistical techniques to determine which words a user has said. This project attempts to le...
Tim Berners-Lee envisions information on the Web being given well-defined meaning, creating the Semantic Web, which would then enable use...
Cell-phone contact lists represent a very large peer-to-peer network. We are creating a cell-phone-based application that allows users to...
Users have high-level goals when they browse the Web or perform searches. However, the two primary user interfaces positioned between us...
Globuddy is a common-sense-based application that helps English-speakers to communicate in a foreign language. In addition to translatin...
People cannot type as fast as they think, especially when faced with the constraints of mobile devices. The focus of this project is deve...
We are working on learning agents that can automate semi-repetitive graphical procedures by watching a user perform the procedures on con...
Segu� is a browsing agent that can discern the user's changes of interest by examining browsing history. The agent represents the pages i...
When browsing the Web, what quality information does the user have about the information underlying the links? The only hint behind links...
What would it mean to browse collaboratively? In business meetings or family situations, several people may be attending a browsing sessi...
The AmEC Infrastructure is an attempt to mitigate the well-known problem of software reuse in the domain of agent-mediated electronic com...
We are developing technologies and community methodologies in electronic commerce for social and economic development. We study e-commerc...
BUZZwatch distills and tracks trends, themes, and topics within collections of texts across time (e.g. Internet discussions, newspaper ar...
This project helps a community tell its collective story through collaborative hypertext. Members of the community contribute many short ...
This project has developed a software agent that finds people who have never met, but share similar interests, and introduces them to eac...
Remembrance Agents are a new class of applications that watch over a user's shoulder and suggest information relevant to the current situ...
The VisiGeek displayer enables the visual comparison of otherwise non-visual datasets. The visualizer highlights differences in the data ...
The members of electronic communities are often unrelated to each other; they may have never met and have no information on each other's ...