The TextMap General Purpose Visualization System appears in the proceedings of Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2019 (Springer) and a BICA Special Issue (Elsevier).

A paper describing the Imaginer system, “Logical Lateration – a Cognitive Systems Experiment Towards a New Approach to the Grounding Problem,” has been published in Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.09.008

The Imaginer is online in a new version, now processing text from a simple protolanguage. In a collaboration with Infographics, it also got a nicer interface. https://logical-lateration.appspot.com

Recently accepted paper proposing a cognitive architecture component that functions as an interface between language/logic and perception.  

A paper by Mohammad Eshghi and me on leveraging wireless sensor networks to allow municipalities to provide smartphone navigation services even when internet access, cell phone networks, and even electricity are no longer available. The simulated system allows users not … Continue reading →

Is the Internet Spatial? Given that electronic signals travel at the speed of light, spatial distance on the internet should play a negligible role. However, the economic success and importance of content distribution networks suggests otherwise. A paper reporting on … Continue reading →

The imaginer is online. You can try it here.

I have added updated information about my current projects on the Perception-Reasoning Interface Context-Dependent Systems

As always the problem is to make development projects continue after the project duration: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/community-grants-community-projects/2017/05/how-internet-changed-nyirarukobwa-primary-school

Cognitive systems at the reasoning-perception interface Human reasoning uses analogies, metaphors, and analogous representations to greatly expand our horizons: we “grasp” a concept, or “see” how a complex phenomenon works. While many animals have amazing problem solving skills, human cognition is … Continue reading →