Jim Spohrer

June 25, 2015

Cognitive Systems Institute Group

Update

Thank You to All of Our Presenters

Amar Viswanathan - RPI

Meinholf Sellmann - IBM Research

Ashok Goel - Georgia Tech

Jim Hendler - RPI

Chris Biemann - TU Darmstadt

Ayse Basar Bener - Ryerson

Ben Shaw - IBM Research

Wayne Gray - RPI

John Laird - U Michigan

Selmer Brigsjord, John Licato - RPI

Michael Wollowski - Rose-Hulman

Wlodek Zadrozny - UNC Charlotte

Hamid R Motahari Nezhad - IBM Research

Polly Tremoulet - Drexel

Costas Bekas - IBM Zurich Research

Susan Epstein - CUNY

Subbarao Kambhampati and Kartik

Talamadupula - ASU

Simon Ellis - RPI

Yosi Mass - IBM Haifa Research

Mona Diab - George Washington U

Barbara Grosz - Harvard U

Michal Shmueli-Scheuer - IBM Haifa

Research

W. Raghupathy - Fordham

Lenhart Schubert - U Rochester

Schahram Dustdar - Vienna University of

Technology

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OVERVIEW

A collaborative effort between universities, research institutes, and IBM clients to advance the state-of-

the-art in cognitive computing. Launched in 2013 with just four universities, expanded in 2014 and

beyond. Will grow to 300+ universities at varying levels of research collaboration.

Create linkages between faculty and IBM Researchers to define cognitive system grand challenges

Help faculty and their top graduate students to prepare aligned collaborative research proposals to

submit to funding agencies, such as the just announced NSF Smart Service Systems program

Explore academic interest in hosting an IBM-Researcher(s)-In-Residence at their universities

Compile point of view (POV) documents on the potential impacts of cognitive systems on business and

society.

CALL TO ACTION

RESOURCES

GOALS

Cognitive Systems Institute

Go to website Cognitive Systems Institute

Join LinkedIn Group and join in the conversation

Take a short survey to update the Institute about your thoughts and priorities

Participate in weekly calls and present your research when ready

Build Handbook of Cognitive Systems Research

Platforms: Cognition as a ServiceBlueMix & SoftLayer & CCAMSS

DEEPQA Semantic Technologies

Watson Developer Cloud

Corelet Programming & TrueNorth

Access to Cognitive Platforms, Simulators

Researchers in Residence

Research papers and other publications

Point of View Documents

Courses, Videos, Book Articles

Website: Cognitive-Science.info

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Two University courses targeting senior

undergrads or graduate students

1. Watson Cognitive Computing Innovation course

Designed by Mike Rhodin/Eric Brown – each university gets a

single instance of Watson Engagement Advisor for one semester

Students build a Watson application: curate and ingest a corpus,

train Watson, develop an app prototype and a business plan

Piloted by 10 top universities Fall 2014

Expanding to 100 universities in 2015

2. How Watson Works course

Taught by Watson Researcher Alfio Gliozzo at Columbia

University since 2012

Available as an online MOOC http://ibm.com/watsonacademy

Skills Building

Watson University Course Offerings

8

The Offerings: Description: The numbers -

through Spring 2015

Course #1: ‘Cognitive Computing: Innovation with Watson’ (w/private

instance)

37 Universities in 9 countries

(+25-30 anticipated Fall 2015)

Course #2: ‘Cognitive Computing: Question Answering Technologies

Behind IBM Watson's Jeopardy! System’ (MOOC now

available)

35 Universities in 10 countries

(many more anticipated now that course is

open to all)

Private research instance

of Watson

Allows faculty to use Watson to obtain grants for further

cognitive computing research based on a domain area of

their choosing

4 instances available (in pilot now)

Academic Initiative for

Cloud (Bluemix):

Watson services on Bluemix -- Faculty Guide available for

cognitive app development

Launched 4/27

This will become our “lead with” – self service,

Acad Init coverage

- Use Case Studies

- Case Competitions

- 3rd Party Case Studies

- Modules

Ideate on how to put Watson to work 17 Universities, 100’s of students

Technical Support for Faculty and

Students• Faculty training sessions, Getting Started Guide

• Weekly “Office Hours” around the globe

• Watson University Competitions Template

• Engaged Tech Mentors who are eager to participate

• Pipeline into Watson Ecosystem Partner program

Build a Watson App on Bluemix

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Discussion Topics

• Talent pipeline for cognitive computing jobs

• are there enough?

• is there a shortage?

• where are your students going for employment?

• % of Computer Science Faculty with specialty in one or more cognitive

topics (ML, NLP, Robotics, AI, Knowledge representation and reasoning,

etc..)

• we found in top schools it was around 50%.

• do faculty agree?

• Open standards/data/algorithms for cognitive computing?

• are any emerging?

• who are the leaders?

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Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Special Issue

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/

• Dr Hisham El-Shishiny (shishiny@eg.ibm.com), Master Inventor and Chief

Scientist at IBM Cairo lab, is invited to be the lead guest editor for a special issue

of this journal.

• He has proposed “Cognitive Computing” for the topic of this special issue.

• As the Lead Guest Editor, he would be responsible for inviting 2-4 Co-Guest

Editors. Together with the other Guest Editors, he would need to write a one-page

Call for Papers and an editorial to be published as an opening to the Special

Issue. He would also need to assign the incoming submitted manuscripts to

himself or the other Guest Editors so they can send them for peer-review.

• The journal staff will provide the Guest Editors with as much administrative and

editorial assistance as possible to make sure that the whole process is as

seamless as possible.

• If you are interested to join Hisham as Co-Guest Editors or reviewers for this

special issue, please email him before July 3rd.

Questions?