Generating Baseball Summaries from Multiple Perspectives by Reordering Content (2009)
This paper presents a reordering algorithm for generating multiple stories from different perspectives based on a single baseball game. We take a description of a game and a neutral summary, reorder...
Howard Shrobe, Robert Laddaga, Bob Balzer, Neil Goldman, Dave Wile, Marcelo Tallis, ...
Information systems form the backbones of the critical infrastructures of modern societies. Unfortunately, these systems are highly vulnerable to attacks that can result in enormous damage....
Sketch Recognition in Software Design (2008)
Tracy Hammond, Krzysztof Gajos, All Davis, Howard Shrobe
The Problem: Sketching is a natural and integral part of software design. Software developers use sketching to aid in the brainstorming of ideas, visualizing programming organization, and...
Mutual Disambiguation of Verbal and Sketching Inputs in a Design Environment (2008)
Aaron Adler, All Davis, Howard Shrobe
The Problem: In any design environment, some things are more easily expressed verbally, while some are more easily expressed visually in a sketch. We would like to provide a design environment where...
Collaboration Applications in Smart Spaces (2008)
Alice Oh, Howard Shrobe, Andy Chang, Krzysztof Gajos, Tyler Horton, Stephen Peters, ...
The Problem: Every day, people are engaged in various types of collaboration tasks in the Intelligent Room [1]. However, no software exists that can support collaboration effectively and smoothly in...
One-Push Sharing: Facilitating Picture Sharing From Camera Phones (2008)
Gary Look, Robert Laddaga, Howard Shrobe
Abstract. We present a “one-push ” sharing feature for camera phones that allows camera phone owners to easily email pictures from their camera phone. Our approach compares favorably to that of...
Towards Intelligent Mapping Applications: A Study Of Elements Found In Cognitive Maps (2008)
This paper describes a study that examines common elements found in people’s mental maps of the city of Boston. The intent of the study is to understand the mental model people have of a city....
Christopher Taylor, Howard Shrobe
SLAT, the problem of tracking a target in a sensor network while simultaneously localizing and calibrating the nodes of the network. Our proposed solution, LaSLAT, is a Bayesian filter providing...
The Problem: Can we find a way to build software systems which can autonomously adapt to unforeseen and changing circumstances? What are the organizing principles for such systems? Is there a common...
Administrative contact: (2008)
Brian Williams, Robert Laddaga, Howard Shrobe, Dr. Brian Williams, Robert Van, De Pitt, ...
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Computation for the Corridor: Ubiquitous Computing Systems for Social Spaces (2008)
Max Van Kleek, Paul Robertson, Howard Shrobe, Larry Rudolph
Abstract. This position paper motivates the need for ubiquitous computing systems to act as social mediators within organizations, and proposes that such systems be situated in the various shared...
AWDRAT: A Cognitive Middleware System (2008)
For Information Survivability, Howard Shrobe, Robert Laddaga
The Infrastructure of modern society is controlled by software systems that are vulnerable to attacks. Many such attacks, launched by "recreational hackers" have already led to severe...
3.1 Role I: A KR is a Surrogate (2007)
Randall Davis, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
Although knowledge representation is one of the central and in some ways most familiar concepts in AI, the most fundamental question about it---What is it?---has rarely been answered directly....
Stephen Peters, Gary Look, Kevin Quigley, Howard Shrobe, Krzysztof Gajos
We 1 are building a new communication model and discovery system which will allow agent-based intelligent spaces to interact with one another. This new infrastructure layer, called Hyperglue,...
Certified by.......................................................... (2007)
Howard Shrobe, Arthur C. Smith, Rattapoom Tuchinda, Rattapoom Tuchinda
The vision of intelligent environments where computation will be pervasive is no longer a dream. As computers become smaller, they are embedded in everything around us from clothing to wall. Human...
Certified by.......................................................... (2007)
Randall Davis, Howard Shrobe, Arthur C. Smith, Aaron D. Adler, Aaron D. Adler
Sketches are commonly used in the early stages of design. Our previous system allows users to sketch mechanical systems that the computer interprets. However, some parts of the mechanical system...
Thomas F. Stahovich, Randall Davis, Howard Shrobe
We are working to develop a large scale ontology for the mechanical engineering world to support a wide range of tasks including analysis and design. Our work is guided by the task of determining the...
A GLIMPSE OF TRUTH'MAINTENANCE (2007)
A. I. Memo, Jon Doyle, I Gerald, Jay Sussman, Richard M. Sta!iman, Guy L. Steele, ...
Many procedurally-oriented problem solving systems can be viewed as performing a mix'ture of computation and deduction, with much of the computation serving to decid e what deductions should be...
A Plan-Based Mission Control Center (2007)
For Autonomous Vehicles, Gary Look, Howard Shrobe
Teams of autonomous vehicles (AVs) carry out missions in a number of fields such as space exploration and searchand -rescue. However, human supervision is still required to monitor the status of the...
TIARA: Trust Management, Intrusion-tolerance, Accountability, and Reconstitution Architecture (2007)
Shrobe, Howard, Knight, Thomas, Hon, Andre De
The last 20 years have led to unprecedented improvements in chipdensity and system performance fueled mainly by Moore's Law. Duringthe same time, system and application software have bloated,...
TIARA: Trust Management, Intrusion-tolerance, Accountability, and Reconstitution Architecture (2007)
Shrobe, Howard, Knight, Thomas, Hon, Andre De
The last 20 years have led to unprecedented improvements in chipdensity and system performance fueled mainly by Moore's Law. Duringthe same time, system and application software have bloated,...
Self-Adaptive Systems for Information Survivability: PMOP and AWDRAT (2007)
Shrobe, Howard, Laddaga, Robert, Balzer, Robert, Goldman, Neil, Wile, Dave, Tallis, Marcelo, ...
Information systems form the backbones of the critical infrastructures of modern societies. Unfortunately, these systems are highly vulnerable to attacks that can result in enormous damage....
Self-Adaptive Systems for Information Survivability: PMOP and AWDRAT (2007)
Shrobe, Howard, Laddaga, Robert, Balzer, Robert, Goldman, Neil, Wile, Dave, Tallis, Marcelo, ...
Information systems form the backbones of the critical infrastructures of modern societies. Unfortunately, these systems are highly vulnerable to attacks that can result in enormous damage....
Certified by.......................................................... (2007)
Paul Harrison Elliott, Howard Shrobe, Brian C. Williams, Harrison Elliott
In this thesis, we are interested in solving a problem that arises in model-based programming, specifically in the estimation of the state a system described by a probabilistic model. Some...
Plan-Driven Pervasive Computing (2006)
Look, Gary, Peters, Stephen, Shrobe, Howard
The goal of human-centered, pervasive computing should be to hide the details of the computing environment, allowing users to concentrate on their goals, rather than on the direct management of...
Hyperglue: Designing High-Level Agent Communication for Distributed Applications (2006)
Peters, Stephen, Look, Gary, Quigley, Kevin, Shrobe, Howard, Gajos, Krzysztof
We are building a new communication model and discoverysystem which will allow agent-based intelligent spacesto interact with one another. This new infrastructure layer,called Hyperglue, coordinates...
Hyperglue: Designing High-Level Agent Communication for Distributed Applications (2006)
Peters, Stephen, Look, Gary, Quigley, Kevin, Shrobe, Howard, Gajos, Krzysztof
We are building a new communication model and discoverysystem which will allow agent-based intelligent spacesto interact with one another. This new infrastructure layer,called Hyperglue, coordinates...
Plan-Driven Pervasive Computing (2006)
Look, Gary, Peters, Stephen, Shrobe, Howard
The goal of human-centered, pervasive computing should be to hide the details of the computing environment, allowing users to concentrate on their goals, rather than on the direct management of...
Balzer, Robert, Shrobe, Howard, Goldman, Neil, Wile, David
This document is the final report for AWDRAT, an effort in the DARPA funded Self-Regenerative System (SRS) program conducted by MIT and Teknolwedge. AWDRAT stands for Architectural Differencing,...
Simultaneous localization, calibration, and tracking in an ad hoc sensor network (2006)
Christopher Taylor, Howard Shrobe
SLAT, the problem of tracking a target in a sensor network while simultaneously localizing and calibrating the nodes of the network. Our proposed solution, LaSLAT, is a Bayesian filter that provides...
Simultaneous localization, calibration, and tracking in an ad hoc sensor network (2006)
Christopher Taylor, Ali Rahimi, Jonathan Bachrach, Howard Shrobe
We introduce Simultaneous Localization and Tracking (SLAT), the problem of tracking a target in a sensor network while simultaneously localizing and calibrating the nodes of the network. Our proposed...
Simultaneous Localization, Calibration, and Tracking in an ad Hoc Sensor Network (2005)
Taylor, Christopher, Rahimi, Ali, Bachrach, Jonathan, Shrobe, Howard
We introduce Simultaneous Localization and Tracking (SLAT), the problem of tracking a target in a sensor network while simultaneously localizing and calibrating the nodes of the network. Our proposed...
Simultaneous Localization, Calibration, and Tracking in an ad Hoc Sensor Network (2005)
Taylor, Christopher, Rahimi, Ali, Bachrach, Jonathan, Shrobe, Howard
We introduce Simultaneous Localization and Tracking (SLAT), the problem of tracking a target in a sensor network while simultaneously localizing and calibrating the nodes of the network. Our proposed...
Simultaneous localization and tracking in an ad hoc sensor network (2005)
Christopher Taylor, Ali Rahimi, Jonathan Bachrach, Howard Shrobe
Make a note of similarity between SLAM and localization, tracking. We demonstrate that it is possible to achieve accurate localization while target tracking in a randomly placed wireless sensor...
A location representation for generating descriptive walking directions (2005)
Gary Look, Buddhika Kottahachchi, Robert Laddaga, Howard Shrobe
An expressive representation for location is an important component in many applications. However, while many location-aware applications can reason about space at the level of coordinates and...
Shrobe, Howard, Laddaga, Robert
Traditionally, we've focussed on the question of how to make a system easy to code the first time, or perhaps on how to ease the system's continued evolution. But if we look at life cycle costs, then...
Shrobe, Howard, Laddaga, Robert
Traditionally, we've focussed on the question of how to make a system easy to code the first time, or perhaps on how to ease the system's continued evolution. But if we look at life cycle costs, then...
Shrobe, Howard, Laddaga, Robert
Traditionally, we've focussed on the question of how to make a system easy to code the first time, or perhaps on how to ease the system's continued evolution. But if we look at life cycle costs, then...
Shrobe, Howard, Laddaga, Robert
Traditionally, we've focussed on the question of how to make a system easy to code the first time, or perhaps on how to ease the system's continued evolution. But if we look at life cycle costs, then...
A Plan-Based Mission Control Center for Autonomous Vehicles (2004)
Teams of autonomous vehicles (AVs) carry out missions in a number of fields such as space exploration and searchand -rescue. However, human supervision is still required to monitor the status of the...
Activity Zones for Context-Aware Computing (2003)
Koile, Kimberle, Tollmar, Konrad, Demirdjian, David, Shrobe, Howard, Darrell, Trevor
Location is a primary cue in many context-aware computing systems, and is often represented as a global coordinate, room number, or Euclidean distance various landmarks. A user?s concept of location,...
Activity Zones for Context-Aware Computing (2003)
Koile, Kimberle, Tollmar, Konrad, Demirdjian, David, Shrobe, Howard, Darrell, Trevor
Location is a primary cue in many context-aware computing systems, and is often represented as a global coordinate, room number, or Euclidean distance various landmarks. A user?s concept of location,...
Gajos, Krzysztof, Shrobe, Howard
The dream of pervasive computing is slowly becoming a reality. A number of projects around the world are constantly contributing ideas and solutions that are bound to change the way we interact with...
Gajos, Krzysztof, Shrobe, Howard
The dream of pervasive computing is slowly becoming a reality. A number of projects around the world are constantly contributing ideas and solutions that are bound to change the way we interact with...
Jonathan Bachrach, Radhika Nagpal, Michael Salib, Howard Shrobe
Abstract. We demonstrate that it is possible to achieve robust and reasonably accurate localization in a randomly placed wireless sensor network composed of inexpensive components of limited...
Activity Zones for Context-Aware Computing (2003)
Kimberle Koile, Konrad Tollmar, David Demirdjian, Howard Shrobe, Trevor Darrell
Abstract. Location is a primary cue in many context-aware computing systems, and is often represented as a global coordinate, room number, or a set of Euclidean distances to various landmarks. A...
Activity Zones for Context-Aware Computing (2003)
Kimberle Koile Konrad, Konrad Tollmar, David Demirdjian, Howard Shrobe, Trevor Darrell
Location is a primary cue in many context-aware computing systems, and is often represented as a global coordinate, room number, or a set of Euclidean distances to various landmarks. A user's...
Organizing a Global Coordinate System from (2003)
Local Information On, Radhika Nagpal, Howard Shrobe, Jonathan Bachrach
We demonstrate that it is possible to achieve accurate localization and tracking of a target in a randomly placed wireless sensor network composed of inexpensive components of limited accuracy. The...
Jonathan Bachrach, Radhika Nagpal, Michael Salib, Howard Shrobe
Abstract. We demonstrate that it is possible to achieve robust and reasonably accurate localization in a randomly placed wireless sensor network composed of inexpensive components of limited...
Model-Based Diagnosis for Information Survivability (2002)
The Infrastructure of modern society is controlled by software systems that are vulnerable to attack. Successful attacks on these systems can lead to catastrophic results; the survivability of such...
An Agent-Based System For Capturing And Indexing Software Design Meetings (2002)
Tracy Hammond, Krzysztof Gajos, Randall Davis, Howard Shrobe
Abstract. We present an agent-based system for capturing and indexing software design meetings. During these meetings, designers
End user empowerment in human centered pervasive computing (2002)
Krzysztof Gajos, Harold Fox, Howard Shrobe
Abstract. Human-centered computation is characterized by at least three features: it must be adaptive, reactive, and it must empower the user to configure and extend the behavior of the systems using...
Jon Doyle, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
c fl Copyright 2000 by the authors Abstract: The Intrusion Detection (ID) community has developed numerous proposals for languages with which to describe signatures of attacks on computers and...
Design principles for resource management systems for intelligent spaces (2001)
Krzysztof Gajos, Luke Weisman, Howard Shrobe
Abstract. The idea of ubiquitous computing and smart environments is no longer a dream and has long become a serious area of research and soon this technology will start entering our every day lives....
Event recognition beyond signature and anomaly (2001)
Isaac Kohane, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits, Jon Doyle, Jon Doyle, William Long, ...
Abstract — Notions of signature and anomaly have formed the basis of useful methods in cyber defense, but even in combination provide only weak evidence for recognizing many events of interest. One...
Agile monitoring for cyber defense (2001)
Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
The Monitoring, Analysis, and Interpretation Tool Arsenal (MAITA) seeks to support rapid construction and empirical reconfiguration of cyber defense monitoring systems inside the opponent decision...
Event recognition beyond signature and anomaly (2001)
Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
Abstract | Notions of signature and anomaly have formed the basis of useful methods in cyber defense, but even in combination provide only weak evidence for recognizing many events of interest. One...
Event recognition beyond signature and anomaly (2001)
Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
Abstract — Notions of signature and anomaly have formed the basis of useful methods in cyber defense, but even in combination provide only weak evidence for recognizing many events of interest. One...
Ensuring Survivable Information Services: Architecting, Diagnosing and Reconfiguring (1998)
The central premise of this work is that a significant shift of focus and approach is necessary in order to deal with the emerging threat of information attacks on the critical infrastructures of our...
Knowledge Based Collaboration Webs (1998)
The Knowledge Based Collaboration Web (KBCW) project at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI) exploited representations and techniques used in AI for research and development of a platform...
Preventing Misuse of Operator Privilege (PMOP) (1998)
Balzer, Robert, Shrobe, Howard, Goldman, Neil, Wile, David
This document is the final report for PMOP, a project of the DARPA/IPTO Self-Regenerative Systems (SRS) program performed by MIT and Teknowledge. Insiders are distinguished by the fact that they have...
Thesis: Stochastic Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialog Systems (1998)
Dr. Howard Shrobe, Prof Patrick Winston, Prof Regina Barzilay, Advisor Dr. Alex Rudnicky
• Multimedia and natural language generation using computational models of multiple perspectives • Understanding human cognition through computational modeling • Artificial Intelligence
Generating multiple new designs from a sketch (1998)
Thomas F. Stahovich, All Davis, Howard Shrobe
We describe a program called SketchIT that transforms a single sketch of a mechanical device into multiple families of new designs. It represents each of these families with a “BEP-Model,” a...
An architecture for constructing self-evolving software systems (1998)
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Mark Klein, Howard Shrobe
This paper proposes an architecture for "closing the feedback loop " over the entire software evolution process and enabling the construction of self-evolving software systems....
An Architecture for Constructing Self-Evolving Software Systems (1998)
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Mark Klein, Howard Shrobe
This paper proposes an architecture for "closing the feedback loop" over the entire software evolution process and enabling the construction of self-evolving software systems. Self-evolving...
An Architecture for Constructing Self-Evolving Software Systems (1998)
Chrysanthos Dellarocas Massachusetts, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Mark Klein, Howard Shrobe
This paper proposes an architecture for "closing the feedback loop" over the entire software evolution process and enabling the construction of self-evolving software systems.
Qualitative Rigid Body Mechanics (1997)
Thomas Stahovich, Randall Davis, Howard Shrobe
We present a theory of qualitative rigid body mechanics and describe a program that uses this theory to compute qualitative dynamic simulations. 1 The program works directly from a qualitative...
Strategic directions for artificial intelligence (1996)
Jon Doyle, Thomas Dean, Et Al, Thomas Dean (co, Johan De Kleer, Thomas Dietterich, ...
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) consists of long-standing intellectual and technological efforts addressing several interrelated scientific and practical aims: —constructing intelligent...
Generating Multiple New Designs From a Sketch (1996)
Thomas F. Stahovich, Randall Davis, All Davis, Howard Shrobe
We describe a program called SketchIT that transforms a single sketch of a mechanical device into multiple families of new designs. It represents each of these families with a "BEP-Model,"...
What is a knowledge representation (1993)
All Davis, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
■ Although knowledge representation is one of the central and, in some ways, most familiar concepts in AI, the most fundamental question about it—What is it?—has rarely been answered directly....
What is a knowledge representation (1993)
All Davis, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
■ Although knowledge representation is one of the central and, in some ways, most familiar concepts in AI, the most fundamental question about it—What is it?—has rarely been answered directly....
What is a knowledge representation (1993)
All Davis, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
■ Although knowledge representation is one of the central and, in some ways, most familiar concepts in AI, the most fundamental question about it—What is it?—has rarely been answered directly....
The Problem: Computer aided design tools built to date have typically shared three important characteristics: (i), they are intended for use relatively late in the design process, (ii) they typically...