The complexity of this new environment will demand a new style of human-computer interaction, where the computer becomes an intelligent, active and personalized collaborator.
Predictor: Maes, Pattie
Prediction, in context:In an informative 1994 article titled “Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload,” Pattie Maes of MIT writes: ”The ‘information highway’ will present us with an explosion of new computer-based tasks and services, but the complexity of this new environment will demand a new style of human-computer interaction, where the computer becomes an intelligent, active and personalized collaborator. Interface agents are computer programs that employ artificial intelligence techniques to provide active assistance to a user with computer-based tasks. Agents radically change the user experience, through the metaphor that an agent can act as a ‘personal assistant.’ The agent acquires its competence by learning from the user as well as from agents assisting other users. Several prototype agents have been built using this technique.”
Biography:Pattie Maes , a researcher at MIT’s Media Lab, was a founder and board member of Firefly Network, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. 脨 one of the first companies to commercialize personalization and profiling technology (Firefly was acquired by Microsoft in 1998). She was also a founder and a board member of Open Ratings, Inc., a provider of performance data on businesses for B2B ecommerce. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Intelligent Agents/AI
Name of publication: Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload
Title, headline, chapter name: Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload
Quote Type: Paraphrase
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