Information_processing_technology_office

The Information Processing Technology Office is an agency of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency whose stated mission is:

[To] create a new generation of computational and information systems that possess capabilities far beyond those of current systems. These cognitive systems - systems that know what they\'re doing:

• will be able to reason, using substantial amounts of appropriately represented knowledge;
• will learn from their experiences and improve their performance over time;
• will be capable of explaining themselves and taking naturally expressed direction from humans;
• will be aware of themselves and able to reflect on their own behavior;
• will be able to respond robustly to surprises, in a very general way.

IPTO Research Projects

• LifeLog, an IPTO project "to trace the \'threads\' of an individual\'s life in terms of events, states, and relationships" by creating "an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person’s experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities."

• BICA, an IPTO project attempting to create \'Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures".

External links

• Oral-history interview with IPTO-head Ivan Sutherland at Charles Babbage Institute
• Official IPTO Homepage

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