Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Software Agents Group
• Researched ways to improve a variety of software applications by giving them access to 700,000 facts about the world. Prototypes include:
• -Improved word prediction for text entry on mobile devices
• -A Semantic Web explorer bar for Microsoft Internet Explorer
• -Dynamically generated video game environments
• -Improved speech recognition
• -Algorithms to understand users' goals when they search their social network
• -A tourist's phrasebook that understands the context of the current situation
• Presented technology demos for corporate sponsors visiting the Media Lab, including the CTO of Sony, and a the CTO of Motorola