Jim Spohrer's presentation on Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series June 25, 2015. Calls are Thursdays at 10:30am ET. Contact fodell@us.ibm.com to attend.

1. Jim Spohrer
June 25, 2015
Cognitive Systems Institute Group
Update

2. Thank You to All of Our Presenters
Amar Viswanathan - RPI
Meinholf Sellmann - IBM Research
Ashok Goel - Georgia Tech
Jim Hendler - RPI
Chris Biemann - TU Darmstadt
Ayse Basar Bener - Ryerson
Ben Shaw - IBM Research
Wayne Gray - RPI
John Laird - U Michigan
Selmer Brigsjord, John Licato - RPI
Michael Wollowski - Rose-Hulman
Wlodek Zadrozny - UNC Charlotte
Hamid R Motahari Nezhad - IBM Research
Polly Tremoulet - Drexel
Costas Bekas - IBM Zurich Research
Susan Epstein - CUNY
Subbarao Kambhampati and Kartik
Talamadupula - ASU
Simon Ellis - RPI
Yosi Mass - IBM Haifa Research
Mona Diab - George Washington U
Barbara Grosz - Harvard U
Michal Shmueli-Scheuer - IBM Haifa
Research
W. Raghupathy - Fordham
Lenhart Schubert - U Rochester
Schahram Dustdar - Vienna University of
Technology
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4. OVERVIEW
A collaborative effort between universities, research institutes, and IBM clients to advance the state-of-
the-art in cognitive computing. Launched in 2013 with just four universities, expanded in 2014 and
beyond. Will grow to 300+ universities at varying levels of research collaboration.
 Create linkages between faculty and IBM Researchers to define cognitive system grand challenges
 Help faculty and their top graduate students to prepare aligned collaborative research proposals to
submit to funding agencies, such as the just announced NSF Smart Service Systems program
 Explore academic interest in hosting an IBM-Researcher(s)-In-Residence at their universities
 Compile point of view (POV) documents on the potential impacts of cognitive systems on business and
society.
CALL TO ACTION
RESOURCES
GOALS
Cognitive Systems Institute
 Go to website Cognitive Systems Institute
 Join LinkedIn Group and join in the conversation
 Take a short survey to update the Institute about your thoughts and priorities
 Participate in weekly calls and present your research when ready
 Build Handbook of Cognitive Systems Research
Platforms: Cognition as a Service
BlueMix & SoftLayer & CCAMSS
DEEPQA Semantic Technologies
Watson Developer Cloud
Corelet Programming & TrueNorth
 Access to Cognitive Platforms, Simulators
 Researchers in Residence
 Research papers and other publications
 Point of View Documents
 Courses, Videos, Book Articles

5. Website: Cognitive-Science.info
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6. Cognitive Systems Institute LinkedIn Group
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Two University courses targeting senior
undergrads or graduate students
1. Watson Cognitive Computing Innovation course
Designed by Mike Rhodin/Eric Brown – each university gets a
single instance of Watson Engagement Advisor for one semester
Students build a Watson application: curate and ingest a corpus,
train Watson, develop an app prototype and a business plan
Piloted by 10 top universities Fall 2014
Expanding to 100 universities in 2015
2. How Watson Works course
Taught by Watson Researcher Alfio Gliozzo at Columbia
University since 2012
Available as an online MOOC http://ibm.com/watsonacademy
Skills Building

8. Watson University Course Offerings
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The Offerings: Description: The numbers -
through Spring 2015
Course #1: ‘Cognitive Computing: Innovation with Watson’ (w/private
instance)
37 Universities in 9 countries
(+25-30 anticipated Fall 2015)
Course #2: ‘Cognitive Computing: Question Answering Technologies
Behind IBM Watson's Jeopardy! System’ (MOOC now
available)
35 Universities in 10 countries
(many more anticipated now that course is
open to all)
Private research instance
of Watson
Allows faculty to use Watson to obtain grants for further
cognitive computing research based on a domain area of
their choosing
4 instances available (in pilot now)
Academic Initiative for
Cloud (Bluemix):
Watson services on Bluemix -- Faculty Guide available for
cognitive app development
Launched 4/27
This will become our “lead with” – self service,
Acad Init coverage
- Use Case Studies
- Case Competitions
- 3rd Party Case Studies
- Modules
Ideate on how to put Watson to work 17 Universities, 100’s of students
Technical Support for Faculty and
Students
• Faculty training sessions, Getting Started Guide
• Weekly “Office Hours” around the globe
• Watson University Competitions Template
• Engaged Tech Mentors who are eager to participate
• Pipeline into Watson Ecosystem Partner program

9. Build a Watson App on Bluemix
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10. Discussion Topics
• Talent pipeline for cognitive computing jobs
• are there enough?
• is there a shortage?
• where are your students going for employment?
• % of Computer Science Faculty with specialty in one or more cognitive
topics (ML, NLP, Robotics, AI, Knowledge representation and reasoning,
etc..)
• we found in top schools it was around 50%.
• do faculty agree?
• Open standards/data/algorithms for cognitive computing?
• are any emerging?
• who are the leaders?
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11. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Special Issue
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/
• Dr Hisham El-Shishiny (shishiny@eg.ibm.com), Master Inventor and Chief
Scientist at IBM Cairo lab, is invited to be the lead guest editor for a special issue
of this journal.
• He has proposed “Cognitive Computing” for the topic of this special issue.
• As the Lead Guest Editor, he would be responsible for inviting 2-4 Co-Guest
Editors. Together with the other Guest Editors, he would need to write a one-page
Call for Papers and an editorial to be published as an opening to the Special
Issue. He would also need to assign the incoming submitted manuscripts to
himself or the other Guest Editors so they can send them for peer-review.
• The journal staff will provide the Guest Editors with as much administrative and
editorial assistance as possible to make sure that the whole process is as
seamless as possible.
• If you are interested to join Hisham as Co-Guest Editors or reviewers for this
special issue, please email him before July 3rd.

12. Questions?