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WIRED News: Software Helps Develop Hunches
It's the paradox of human-computer interaction. Computers can process huge numbers quickly and without bias, but programming them to detect faces, trees and puppies is incredibly difficult. Determining beautiful, pristine or cute is impossible. People, on the other hand, are adept at recognizing patterns. Even newborn humans show a tendency to prefer human faces, demonstrating that the pattern-recognition part of us is deep and innate. Now researchers are readying a new suite of tools that marry those two complementary skills, using software to enhance and refine human intuition. "The computers do the computer stuff, and the humans do the human stuff," says Eric Bonabeau, founder of Icosystem. Read the full article on the Wired News web site Find out more about the Hunch Engine™ on Icosystem's web site.
About Icosystem Corporation Icosystem Corporation, a strategy consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has emerged as a leader in the development of business applications for network theory and complexity science. Using the tools of complexity science and advanced computational techniques, Icosystem provides a highly flexible and cost-effective technology platform for exploring business problems and discovering or designing strategies that have significant impact. Icosystem's approach uses realistic models of complex business environments and evolutionary and distributed computational techniques to validate new business ventures or improve the performance of existing enterprises. |
