Using Watson for Constructing Cognitive Assistants
@inproceedings{Goel2016UsingWF, title={Using Watson for Constructing Cognitive Assistants}, author={Ashok K. Goel and Jordan Belknap and Brian Creeden and Mithun Kumble and Shanu Salunke and Bradley Sheneman and Bryan Wiltgen}, year={2016} }
We describe an experiment in using IBM’s Watson tool to construct cognitive assistants in a Georgia Tech Spring 2015 class on computational creativity. The project-based class used Watson to support biologically inspired design, a paradigm that uses biological systems as analogues for inventing technological systems. The students worked in small teams and developed semester-long projects that used Watson to build cognitive assistants for conducting research in support of biologically inspired…
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