However, as I hope this quick tour has shown, notwithstanding the chatter and excitement about the arrival of Watson in Law Land, the techniques
of cognitive technologies are robustly at work in the trenches of law practice, doing useful work today — improving service to clients, reducing costs, creating new opportunities for firms.
The rise
of cognitive technologies has led doomsayers to predict that the future of the legal profession will be presided over by an army of robot lawyers.
Absent the CISL architecture,
each of the cognitive technologies acts in solitude, responding to a specific activity detected by a single type of sensor and provided to the computer for interpretation.
A survey by Deloitte of «aggressive adopters»
of cognitive technologies found 76 % believe that they will «substantially transform» their companies within the next three years.
This latest move follows similar projects by the EU as well as the UK Government and the Houses of Parliament, e.g. the APPG - AI group, to prepare for the new wave
of cognitive technology that will surely impact many process - type jobs, as well as creating new opportunities and value in the economy.
Not exact matches
«We're starting to see the effects
of technology automating
cognitive work — things we used to think only people could do,» Schatsky says.
In addition to partnering with Celgene (celg) to better track negative drug side effects, IBM (ibm) is applying its
cognitive computing AI
technology to recommend cancer treatment in rural areas in the U.S., India, and China, where there is a dearth
of oncologists, said Deborah DiSanzo, general manager for IBM Watson Health.
If chat was the most recent example
of customer service innovation,
cognitive technology layered onto chat will be the next.
The SaaS (software as a service) side
of the business uses
technologies like machine learning, Big Data analytics, heuristics, and
cognitive science for optimisation
of route, vehicle, space use and cost.
ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics
of Ageing, AGR Agricultural Economics, ARA Arab World, BAN Banking, BEC Business Economics, CBA Central Banking, CBE
Cognitive & Behavioural Economics, CDM Collective Decision - Making, CFN Corporate Finance, CIS Confederation
of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics
of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric Time Series, EUR Microeconomics European Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics
of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy
of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics
of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, ORE Operations Research, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology
of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID
Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.
ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics
of Ageing, AGR Agricultural Economics, ARA Arab World, BAN Banking, BEC Business Economics, CBA Central Banking, CBE
Cognitive & Behavioural Economics, CDM Collective Decision - Making, CFN Corporate Finance, CIS Confederation
of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics
of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric Time Series, EUR Microeconomic European Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics
of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy
of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics
of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology
of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID
Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.
In offering predictive maintenance and
cognitive technology for fleet management, DataRPM aims to illustrate what the future
of fleet management looks like.
Through
cognitive technology, your phone will become more intuitive; it will be aware
of your preferences, behavior, and surroundings, and will, therefore, anticipate needs and offer relevant information faster.
She also serves as the Clinical Director
of the Mental Health Interventions and
Technology (MINT) program where she has clinical expertise and research interests in
cognitive - behavioral treatment
of childhood anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders, with a focus on preschool mental health.
Human enhancement is the concept
of applying science and
technologies to expand
cognitive and physical human capacities.
Department
of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
The potential for mind - boosting drugs and
technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets
of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected
cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.
If the FCC can create a way to provide television white spaces to wireless users, the agency might take a similar approach to free up other unused or underused areas
of the spectrum, for example those currently utilized by the military, radar and fire and police departments, says Luke D'Arcy, head
of cognitive radio
technology at Cambridge Consultants, a
technology development and consulting firm.
In a special section, News, Perspective, and Review articles explore what one can learn from video games, the value
of digital libraries, how large - scale testing might be improved by
technology, where
cognitive science meets education, and more.
While working on his Ph.D. in
cognitive science at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, he became frustrated by the fact that his work would be seen and appreciated by such a small audience.
He has a bachelor's degree in
cognitive neuroscience from Brown University and a master's degree in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, where his thesis explored AI and creativity.
And in April, IBM launched IBM Watson Health and the Watson Health Cloud, services that use the company's
cognitive computing
technology to process large amounts
of health data from diverse sources.
Roy, 39, head
of the
cognitive machines group at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology's Media Lab, is documenting every parent — child «conversation» in what he calls the Human Speechome Project.
«Our results show that there is a profound cultural difference» in the way people respond to consonant and dissonant sounds, says Josh McDermott, a
cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Cambridge and lead author
of the paper.
Members
of the education panel listened intently as Greenspan sketched out his theory
of cognitive development, which seemed to hold little role for
technology.
If unobtrusive brain stimulation proves safe and effective in larger classroom trials, the
technology could augment traditional forms
of study, says Roi Cohen Kadosh, a
cognitive neuroscientist at the University
of Oxford, UK, who led the study.
The finding suggests that this type
of scan could be used to identify children whose risk was previously unknown, allowing them to undergo treatment before developing depression, says John Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and
Technology and a professor
of brain and
cognitive sciences at MIT.
As the data from such clever designs mounted, Spelke began to develop her theory
of core knowledge, often inspired by or collaborating with colleagues such as noted Massachusetts Institute
of Technology linguist Noam Chomsky, French mathematician turned
cognitive neuropsychologist Stanislaus Dehaene and Harvard psychologist Susan Carey.
Other potential nightmares, reported in a recent issue
of Technology Review, involve biologists creating customized viruses that can target critical
cognitive circuitry, selectively inducing paranoia, engendering calm, or obliterating memory.
We're taking them on a neuroanatomical detour that seems to go with real gains in reading ability,» says Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and
Technology, a professor
of brain and
cognitive sciences, a member
of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the senior author
of the study.
The common theme in all
of them is
technology, which is opening up new frontiers in mental health and
cognitive enhancement.
The workshop was funded by the Cluster
of Excellence
Cognitive Interaction
Technology (CITEC).
They found that the most obvious positive impact
of technology on education was reflected in
cognitive tools that helped show what was being studied — like a demonstration
of how a cell divides, or the details
of the internal organs
of a medical patient.
«Getting people to use the latest in hearing aid
technology can help them regain control
of their life, and achieve emotional stability and even better
cognitive functioning.»
Fanuel Muindi Department
of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
«Today,
cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication
technology that can be used for a wide range
of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, monitoring
of subsea machinery such as oil - rigs and pipelines, disaster prevention as well as the study
of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean
of FAU's College
of Engineering and Computer Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department
of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I - SENSE Fellow.
Together with colleagues at IBM led by Scott Spangler, principal data scientist at IBM, the team initiated a research project to develop a knowledge integration tool that took advantage
of existing text mining capabilities, such as those used by IBM's Watson
technology (
cognitive technology that processes information more like a human than a computer.)
The roadmap outlines future research directions toward the goal
of enhancing human radioresistance, including upregulation
of endogenous repair and radioprotective mechanisms, possible leeways into gene therapy in order to enhance radioresistance via the translation
of exogenous and engineered DNA repair and radioprotective mechanisms, the substitution
of organic molecules with fortified isoforms, the coordination
of regenerative and ablative
technologies, and methods
of slowing metabolic activity while preserving
cognitive function.
And Steven Pinker, a
cognitive psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, who studies how infants learn language and was only an infant himself when Chomsky first outlined his theory, has attempted to explain this ambitious quest in a provocative book, The Language Instinct (Review, 26 February).
Department
of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
In fact, Nancy Cooke, a professor
of cognitive science and engineering at Arizona State University's College
of Technology and Innovation in Mesa, Ariz., argues drone pilots may be more emotionally impacted by killing at a distance because
of how closely they have to monitor the situation before, during and after the attack.
But eating turkey does not translate to amplified serotonin production in the brain, says neuropharmacologist Richard Wurtman
of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology's Department
of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences in Cambridge, Mass..
Meanwhile
cognitive scientist Gadi Geiger
of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology found that people with dyslexia could attend to multiple auditory inputs at once.
One potential obstacle to further research on near - death experiences will be analyzing them experimentally, says
cognitive neuroscientist Olaf Blanke at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland, who has investigated out -
of - body experiences.
He described his work June 29 in a keynote address to a conference in Vancouver.The
cognitive scientists in the Virtual Environment Navigation lab at Brown University are not only advancing a frontier
of behavioral research but also
of technology.
The Department
of Cognitive Neuroscience
of the Biological Faculty is affiliated to the Cluster
of Excellence
Cognitive Interaction
Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University.
Their Boise, Idaho - based research institute, funded via
technology spin - offs coming out
of their work, aimed at solving foundational problems in
cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
The department is one
of 40 research groups that are working at the Center
of Excellence
Cognitive Interaction
Technology (CITEC).
These include internet - based approaches to
cognitive - behavioral therapy for depression, «telemental» health approaches enabling remote mental health visits,
technology - based interventions for substance abuse and accompanying disorders, and standards for evaluating the quality
of smartphone applications designed for patients with schizophrenia.
When a person enters the environment, sensors capture different kinds
of activity, and — through the CISL architecture — the computer records each activity as a specific event, and forwards it to
cognitive technologies for interpretation and response.