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Henry Lieberman MIT Media Lab  & MIT Department of Architecture Henry Lieberman is a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory. He works with the Agents Group. He is especially interested in using Artificial Intelligence techniques to improve all kinds of user interfaces. Much of his work is centered on the use of Common Sense knowledge, simple facts about people and everyday life. He also works on bringing the full procedural power of computers to non-expert users through Programming by Example, natural language and visual programming. He is also interested in a wide variety of other topics in AI and interactive computing.
Commonsense Since 2000, the MIT Media Lab has had a project to collect Commonsense knowledge, knowledge that ordinary people have about everyday life. Our goal is to give computers a better understanding of people, to enable more natural interaction between people and computers. The project, Open Mind Common Sense, has about a million English sentences from 20,000 contributors over the Web. We have a new reasoning technique, AnalogySpace, which can make simple deductions from this knowledge. Architectural problems, in general, require more specialized knowledge and reaosning. But architectural choices are motivated by the desire to improve the lives of the inhabitants of buildings, as well as aesthetic concerns. Commonsense knowledge can serve as a bridge between specialized architectural knowledge and more general knowledge about how people live and work. The lecture will describe two projects. First, Rachelle Villalon's Adeon integrates knowledge of design choices, building materials and construction techniques, in a system for the design of brick walls. It outputs a program to control a tabeltop industrial robot which can fabricate architectural models. Amanda Webb's Daylight Advisor connects with a simulator that predicts patterns of daylight in a building design and helps the designer interpret the results according to their goals for the design.
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Henry Lieberman Commonsense Knowledge for Architectural Applications
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