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Robert Whetsel’s Research Interests:

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Chat Robot (Chatbot) Research: Studying the use of chatbots as natural language interface to improve the capability of computers to communicate with humans.

Intelligent work flow: Using Artificial Intelligence techniques to develop an intelligent knowledge management system that continuously acquire, filter, organize and reuse a knowledge base to solve interoperability.

Intelligent Personal Assistant (iAvatar): Creating an intelligent avatar, i Avatar™, an autonomous bot, that  has the ability to personalize end-user experiences through the use of emergence, and social networking. This would help users manage the information overload that users experience. The creation of an artifact that is able to learn and educate system behaviors utilized in areas such as: customizing workflow; autonomic searches, data retrieval and report generation; identifying relationships in information; and self analytics of a knowledge base.

Intelligent Architecture: Identifying relationships in information, intelligence and analytics corpora (based on a specific universe) by applying novel combinations of Artificial Intelligence techniques. Relationships identified through statistical analysis, occurrences, validation of linguistic rules, and encryption (cypher/code) or decryption (decipher/decode). In particular, technologies used are natural language processing, machine learning, knowledge representation, text mining, data mining and information extraction.

Evolution of a GNU Linux distribution: based on autonomic intelligent computing, simplifying the installation and configuration of user systems with self-healing capabilities through Artificial Intelligence.

About Robert Whetsel

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Robert Whetsel – is a decorated war veteran, Entrepreneur, and AI Researcher that has worked in Information Systems since 1989. He is one of founders of The Open Business Foundation, and has previously functioned as a Fellow for the Executive Guidance Team for the Open Business Foundation, where he acted as a trusted advisor and mentor for senior management. Additionally, Robert had served on the Steering Committee for the Governor’s Workforce Investment Board Information Technology Cluster Initiative for the State of Maryland, and was one of the authors that crafted “Maryland’s Information Technology Industry Workforce Report and Recommendations”, white paper. When he’s not pondering difficult, unmanageable problems, preferably those involving the philosophical debate of the Singularity, he’s pursuing a Doctoral degree in Artificial Intelligence.

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Robert has been heavily involved with the Open Source movement since 1993 were he has contributed to numerous open source projects as a developer and mentor. He is considered an Open Source Visionary and a leader in the open source community. Currently, he is the Chief Maintainer for the Open FlightLinux Project and continues to contribute to other open source projects when the opportunity presents its self.

Robert’s day job is that of a Computer Scientist for U.S. Army Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Additionally, he acts as an Adjunct Professor for the Computer Science department at Frederick Community College when he has the time and they have the need.

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