YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. and
TROY, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2015
/PRNewswire/ -- IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans
for a multi-year collaboration with Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute to pioneer new frontiers in the
scientific field of immersive cognitive systems. The research
collaboration will be housed in the newly established Cognitive and
Immersive Systems Lab (CISL) on the Rensselaer campus in the Curtis
R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC).
CISL's mission is to explore and advance natural, collaborative
problem-solving among groups of humans and machines. The lab is
built around a futuristic "Situations Room" that can be adapted to
industry-specific environments (including Cognitive Boardrooms,
Design Studios, Diagnosis Rooms and Immersive Classrooms) and is
designed to surface new ways to improve how people work
together.
"With the new lab, we are taking an important step towards a
future in which smart machines and smart humans potentiate each
other, and the end result is better decisions and outcomes," stated
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, president,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. "We
are bringing together two separate strains of emergent technologies
to enhance the power of the other: cognitive computing technologies
coupled with intensive visual and auditory immersive environments
we are developing at Rensselaer."
"Cognitive computing is poised to transform every profession,
industry, and economy, and immersive cognitive systems will play a
vital role in shaping the symbiotic work environments of the future
in which critical business decisions will be made," said Dr.
John E. Kelly III, Senior Vice
President, Solutions Portfolio and Research at IBM. "We are excited
to collaborate with Rensselaer on the development of this new
frontier as we continue to progress the science that will transform
the way professionals around the world work."
Cognitive computing systems are designed to collaborate with
human experts in more natural ways, learn through this interaction,
and enable individuals and teams to make better decisions by making
sense of massive unstructured data. The CISL platform is an
immersive, interactive, reconfigurable physical environment that
enhances group cognition. It pro-actively responds to its occupants
by "listening" to and "watching" them, engages multiple users
working in small groups at the same time on different aspects of a
larger activity, and explores interactions and visualizations that
would be impossible with a few people looking at limited
screens.
CISL will pursue an exciting agenda for researchers interested
in many areas including User Experience Technologies and
Collaborative Cognition. It will be led by Hui Su of IBM Research, a leading researcher in
the area of cognitive user experience.
About IBM Research
Now in its 70th year, IBM Research continues to define the
future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers
in 12 labs located across six continents. Scientists from IBM
Research have produced six Nobel Laureates, 10 U.S. National Medals
of Technology, five U.S. National Medals of Science, six Turing
Awards, 19 inductees in the National Academy of Sciences and 14
inductees into the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame – the most
of any company. For more information, please visit
www.research.ibm.com.
About Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
Founded in 1824 as the first technological research university
in the United States, Rensselaer
embodies "The New Polytechnic:" a new paradigm for teaching,
learning, and research—a view of the technological research
university as a fresh collaborative endeavor across disciplines,
sectors, and global regions. Rensselaer is a driving force behind
breakthroughs in engineering and science in virtually every
arena—from transportation and infrastructure to business, medicine,
manufacturing, big data, computation, outer space, and cyberspace.
For more information, please visit www.rpi.edu.
IBM Contact:
Anna Sekaran
(203) 434-3975
amsekara@us.ibm.com
Rensselaer Contact:
Mary Martialay
(518) 276-2146
martim12@rpi.edu
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