Creativity Consortium Meeting on Agent-Mediated Learning
Date: Wednesday June 24, 1998
Location: Ontario Club, 5th Floor Commerce Court South, corner Bay
& Wellington, Toronto, Ont. Canada
Time: 6:15 registration, networking, cash bar, light hot snacks; 7:00 pm
presentation, demo, discussion
Cost: $40 guests; $30 members; $20 students
Proceedings: available; embargoed till Aug 1998. call (416) 588-1122 for
details and to order
Pre-registration: Call Walter Derzko at 588-1122 by Monday June 22, 1998
at (416) 588-1122
Panel: Karen Andersen, NewsEdge; Walter Derzko, Brain Space on
Agent-Mediated Learning
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This month's Creativity Consortium talk will focus on mining ideas using
intelligent agents.
Karen Andersen, NewsEdge; NewsEdge as a search tool
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There are tremendous advantages to receiving relevant news when you are
using mission critical applications and actively engaged in making business
decisions - as opposed to just 'doing news' as a discreet activity a few
times a day. News should inform business decisions not just business
people.
Karen Andersen, Account Executive at NewsEdge Canada, with 7 years
of experience in the news and information industry, will discuss how
NewsObjects adds immeasurable value by placing news where workers
spend their time. For information, knowledge and corporate resource
managers who need to integrate breaking news and business information
directly into internal financial, customer, competitor or enterprise
information
management systems, NewsEdge NewsObjects is a knowledge integration
toolkit that delivers on the promise to seamlessly integrate
up-to-the-second
news and business information directly into the workflow, as well as the
look
and feel, of mission-critical applications.
NewsEdge Corporation is the leader in global news and current awareness
solutions for business. NewsEdge Corporation helps business people find
the most important, relevant stories from an overwhelming volume of daily
news, enabling them to act on the most current information possible.
NewsEdge Corporation is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts
with sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Japan. For more
information, visit our web site at
http://www.newsedge.com.
Walter Derzko, BrainSpace; 3-D Visualization using Siftware
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So, what does one do with news feed that gets steamed to your desktop?
Current traditional grid and chart presentation methods are too limited
for viewing complex result sets with many different variables. Data
visualization is the latest emerging trend for analysis of large volumes of
detailed data. As an adjunct of reporting and data mining, visualization
tools (Siftware) gives the end user the ability to comprehend tens of
thousands of items in a single view.
Walter Derzko will explore various classes for "siftware" tools and provide
demos of the different Siftware Tool Types below:
1) Anomaly, Red-flag or deviation Detection
2)Classification - predicting an item class based on historical data
using various possible methods such as :Decision trees, Rules, Neural
networks, Rough sets, Genetics or evolution algorithms, Nearest Neighbour,
Fuzzy Logic or combinations
3) Clustering - finding groups of related items
4) Concept generation
5) Data Cleaning and Transformation
6) Dimensional Analysis
7) Estimation - estimating continuous value
8) Link Analysis - finding relevant links or dependencies
9) Statistics
10) Suites - tools handling multiple discovery tasks
11) Summarization or abstraction
12) Text Mining
13) Visualization
Walter Derzko
Director Brain Space
(formerly the Idea Lab at
the Design Exchange)
Toronto
(416) 588-1122
wderzko@pathcom.com