RE: Darpa Command Post Of the Future (CPOF)

From: Ben Houston (ben@exocortex.org)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 14:40:18 MDT


> Cycorp's participation in the Darpa CPOF project winds down this
> spring. We are constructing a Battle Monitor java application which
> interfaces to Cyc. I have not met Ward Page, but others here work
with
> him routinely. I know those who you likely met at the PI meetings but
> company policy prevents me from mentioning their names (without their
> direct involvement).

Okay -- so it wasn't you that I met. One guy from Cycorp that I got to
chat with introduced me to a neat card game that involved visual
detection of patterns. :-)

At one point there was some discussions about integrated your Cyc CPoF
project with ours through a JavaBeans/XML-RPC mechanism.

> I know the focus of CPOF was helping a battlespace commander deal with
the
> over abundance of information. What is the role of VisualInsights /
> OculusInfo, what technologies do they contribute? I could get that
> information from our CPOF project manager, but I believe the answer
might
> interest our readers.

It has nothing to do with AI unfortunately. It is just a large and
complicated engineering and human factors project. We are (I was)
developing the main integrated 3D battlespace visualization where as
CMU/MayaViz is developing the main integrated 2D battlespace
visualization. Unfortunately I can not discuss or disclose much on this
public list except to point you to the very small (and horrible)
screenshot of it on my webpage:
  http://www.exocortex.org/ben/programming.html

During the 2 summers I worked on this project I contributed or rewrote a
majority of the code that underlies the visualization -- about 1.2MB of
a total 1.7MB of java code.
 
Regards...
-ben houston
http://www.exocortex.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com] On
Behalf
> Of Stephen Reed
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:10 PM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com
> Subject: Darpa Command Post Of the Future (CPOF)
>
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Ben Houston wrote:
>
> > Hey Stephen,
> >
> > It's neat that someone from Cycorp joined the list. For the past
two
> > summers I've been contributing to DARPA's Command Post of the Future
> > project (now under the auspices of the IXO branch) with a company
called
> > VisualInsights / OculusInfo. I believe that for a while at least
Cycorp
> > was also involved in this project. Do you know Ward Page the PM? I
met
> > and talked with a few Cycorp employees (although I now forget who it
was
> > exactly) at one of the PI meetings in the Georgia area back in the
> > summer 2000.
>
> Cycorp's participation in the Darpa CPOF project winds down this
> spring. We are constructing a Battle Monitor java application which
> interfaces to Cyc. I have not met Ward Page, but others here work
with
> him routinely. I know those who you likely met at the PI meetings but
> company policy prevents me from mentioning their names (without their
> direct involvement).
>
> I know the focus of CPOF was helping a battlespace commander deal with
the
> over abundance of information. What is the role of VisualInsights /
> OculusInfo, what technologies do they contribute? I could get that
> information from our CPOF project manager, but I believe the answer
might
> interest our readers.
>
> -Steve
>
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