Cognitive Assistance for Government &

Public SectorAAAI Winter Conference, Nov 17-19

Westin Hotel, Arlington, VA – Washington, DC

Day 1 Opening: Societal Benefits & Risks

• Mark Maybury, VP and Chief Security Officer, MITRE• Cognitive Assistance & Autonomous Systems for Society• Foundations: Bush, Englebart, Ashby, Licklider• Why: Prosperity, Safety, Happiness (Healthy, Wealthy, Wise)

• Dr. Ed Felton, Deputy CTO, US Office of Science and Technology Policy• Preparing for the Future of AI and Cognitive Assistants• Input from community to inform process

• (risks, employment, fairness, justice)• Policy to mitigate risks and maximize benefits

Day 1 Morning: Legal & Justice Assistance

• Dan Guttfreund, IBM Haifa Research and MIT Cambridge, MA• Automatic Arguments Constructions, From search engines to research• Computational tech developed to support decision through argumentation• A connected series of statements (claims, evidence) from a topic to a decision

• Sudhir Agarwal, Stanford University, Computer Science• Smart Forms• US Federal agencies use ~23,000 forms• Dynamic Logic Program = Logic program – Constraints + Update Policies

• Arthi Kristna, Brian Feldman, et al - US Patent and Trademark Office• AI Algorithms for Prior-Art Identification• Similar to process of reviewing papers submitted to a conference or journal• Criteria: Novelty, Utility and Inventive

Day 1: Afternoon: Legal• Panel: Opportunities & Barriers• Claudia Pearce, NSA• Sudhir Agarwal, Stanford• Mathew Gerber, UVA• Dan Gutfreund, IBM Research• Karl Branting, MITRE• Brad Brown (moderator),

MITRE Center for Judicial Informatics, Science and Tech (CJIST)

• Trust, fairness, explanation, process design, socio-technical system design

Day 1 Afternoon: Education• Gheorghe Tecuci & Mihai Boicu, GMU• Inquiry Based Teaching and Learning of Science with Cognitive Assistants• DISCIPLE Cognitive assistants for evidence-based reasoning tasks• Training the Cognitive assistant is faster because if uses general knowledge

from the science of evidence• Textbook “Building Cognitive Assistants for Evidence-based Reasoning” http

://lac.gmu.edu/IABook/ • Applications in Scientific Inquiry• Methods: Study the natural world, observe, hypthteses, gather evidence,• Process: Constructing explanations: Assumptions, Logical Thinking, Critical

Thinking, Imaginative Reasoning, Alternatives, Explanations

Day 1 Afternoon: Education• Panel: Progress, Opportunities, Challenges• Gheorghe Tecuci, GMU; Ashok Goel, Georgia Tech: Satya Nitta, IBM Research• John Stamper, CMU; Jim Spohrer (Moderator), IBM Cognitive System

• What progress, opportunities, challenges?• Goel: Watson conversational online teaching assistant (need dynamic memory)• Nitta: Watson from Q&A to tutoring systems• Stamper: Cognitive Tutor (need data); Tecuci: Personalization to students interests

Day 1 Closing: Healthcare• Daniel Sonntag, DFKI• Persuasive AI Technologies for Healthcare Systems• Kognit: Cognitive assistance - Robot and AR approach to elder care• Advanced computer-based tech for AAL (ambient assisted living) • Progress from 20 objects in environment to 2000 objects

Day 2 Opening Keynote: Future Science & Public Sector Services

• Guru Banavar, VP, IBM Research & Chief Science Officer, Cognitive Computing• Cognitive Era and Smarter City Services• Expertise is redefined in the cognitive era (scaling especially)

• Responsible for advancing the next generation of cognitive technologies and solutions with IBM's global scientific ecosystem, including academia, government agencies and other partners. Guru leads the Cognitive Horizons Network, a set of research collaborations with leading institutions.

Day 2 Morning: Cybersecurity• Lee Angelelli, IBM • Augmenting Cyber Security Intelligence:

How Cognitive Computing Will Help SOC Analysts Deal With Increasing Cyber Threats

• Mark Sherman, SEI• Developing a Cognitive Processing Application to Support Q&A of

Application Diagnostics

Day 2 Morning: DOD & Intel• Panel• Ken Grippo, USA • Matthew Klaric, NGA• Col. Tim Gillespie, NRO• Scott Kordella (moderator), MITRE

• Socio-technical systems• Need to integrate disciplines

Day 2 Afternoon: Aviation & Space• Panel

• Manjula Amber, Dep. CIP, NASA Langley• Steven Estes, MITRE• Natesh Manikoth, FAA• Anna an Able, AFRL• Chris Codella (moderator), IBM

• Anna: Systems deployed, saving lives!• Manjula: NASA started at Langley 100ya• Steven: Attention, when OK to speak…• Natesh: Trusting people takes time and certifications,

trusting software will require the same – time and certifications

Day 2 Closing: Moral Autonomous Vehicles• Larry Medsker, GWU• Responding to Challenges in design of Moral Autonomous Vehicles

Organizing Committee

• Co-chairs: Frank Stein (IBM) and Chuck Howell (MITRE)• Scott Kordella, Lashon Booker (MITRE)• Chris Codella, Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Jim Spohrer (IBM)• Anupan Joshi (University of Maryland Baltimore County)• Eric Chapman (University of Maryland)• Suhas Subramanyan (U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy)• Manu Bhardwaj (U.S. Department of State)

Guru Banavar, IBM Chief Scientist Cognitive • He is responsible for advancing the next

generation of cognitive technologies and solutions with IBM's global scientific ecosystem, including academia, government agencies and other partners. Guru leads the Cognitive Horizons Network, a set of research collaborations with leading institutions.

• Background• VP IBM Research Cognitive Computing• CTO Global Public Sector - Smarter Cities• IBM India – Research Lab• India National Innovation – Spoken Web• Numerous media events - WSJ, NYT, etc.• 25 Patents

Panel: Education Assistance Perspectives

Gheorghe_TecuciGMU

Learning Agents

Ashok GoelGeorgia Tech

Design & Intelligence

Satya NittaIBM

Cognitive Tech for Education

John StamperCMU

HCI & ITS

Jim SpohrerIBM

Cognitive Systems

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