{"id":638886,"date":"2001-02-24T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2001-02-24T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-research-item&#038;p=638886"},"modified":"2021-08-11T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T18:51:24","slug":"information-agents-directions-and-futures-2001","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/information-agents-directions-and-futures-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Agents: Directions and Futures (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this internal Microsoft video, produced in 2001 and released publicly in 2020, research scientist Eric Horvitz provides glimpses of a set of research systems developed within Microsoft\u2019s research division between 1998 and 2001. Projects featured in the video include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/attention-sensitive-alerting\/\">Priorities<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/principles-mixed-initiative-user-interfaces-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lookout<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/models-attention-computing-communication-principles-application\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notification Platform<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/deeplistener-harnessing-expected-utility-guide-clarification-dialog-spoken-language-systems\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeepListener<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/experiences-with-the-design-fielding-and-evaluation-of-a\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bestcom<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. The projects show early uses of machine learning, perception, and reasoning aimed at supporting people in daily tasks and at making progress on longer-term missions of augmenting human intellect. The efforts are thematically related in their pursuit of broader understandings of people and context, including a person\u2019s attention, goals, activities, and location, via multimodal signals, involving the analysis of multiple streams of information. Several of the prototype systems were built within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/models-attention-computing-communication-principles-application\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attentional User Interface (AUI) project<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, which had focused on using machine learning and reasoning to understand a computer users\u2019 cognitive load, changing focus of attention, and information needs across multiple devices (<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/www.nytimes.com\/library\/tech\/00\/07\/biztech\/articles\/17lab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NYTimes article, 2000)<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this internal Microsoft video, produced in 2001 and released publicly in 2020, research scientist Eric Horvitz provides glimpses of a set of research systems developed within Microsoft\u2019s research division between 1998 and 2001. Projects featured in the video include Priorities, Lookout, Notification Platform, DeepListener, and Bestcom. 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