"Intelligence Platform at AI Conference"

"Intelligence Platform at AI Conference"
Scoop (NZ) (12/10/04)

"Next week will mark the launch of the NeuroComputing Environment for Evolving Intelligence (NeuCom2004) software platform for commercial and educational use at the Neurocomputing and Evolving Intelligence conference. NeuCom is the brainchild of the Auckland University of Technology's Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI), and KEDRI director Nik Kasabov classifies the platform as an evolving intelligence (EI) system based on his team's hypotheses and techniques of evolving connectionist systems (ECOS). Kasabov explains that EI systems "learn and improve incrementally starting with little knowledge and develop over time." NeuCom incorporates over 60 data analysis, data visualization, data mining, classification, forecasting, optimization, modeling and rule discovery, decision support, image processing, and information integration methods; the system runs on all Windows- or Linux-based computer platforms, and its application has been mapped out for education and for constructing intelligent systems in bioinformatics, business data analysis, adaptive control, medical decision support, and agriculture, among other areas. NeuCom is comprised of ECOS modules, some of which are being used for projects such as SIFTWARE, a gene expression data analysis system currently being employed experimentally by Pacific Edge Biotechnology. Another project that uses ECOS is a renal function evaluation system designed to provide an explanation for impaired kidney function. Kasabov says the system "is always adaptable, trainable on new data and extracts rules that help medical professionals give an accurate, personalized prognosis."


This concept is basically putting a whole lot of concepts together into one use.
It is basically bringing together the visual learning, and rule learning concepts with Reinforcement Learning to develop what sounds to be a fast learning machine. I just wonder how much storage would be needed, but with storage getting cheaper and larger --this isn't a big concern in the future.