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2004

Cognitive Information Storage and Retrieval Tool (CISART)
A presentation by Sherwin Han, a former Volpe employee who has his established his own business, Abstract Productions, and currently, is a senior scientist of BBN Technologies. Sherwin's work is concentrated in natural intelligence and some of his work has been featured on ABC.

With conventional technologies, we are limited in the ability to store knowledge in the computer. We put folders into folders. We store our documents in the directories layer by layer. Soon we realize that we cannot find our own stuff anymore. We download valuable information from the Internet with the hope that someday we may use them. When the time comes, we have forgot where we put them. We search everywhere with frustration knowing that we have them, but do not how to get them back. We store more and more files into our computers and become the slaves of our own work.

CISART is introducing a newly patented technology to the computer industry. This technology simulates the structure of the human brain and its cognitive functions so that computers can work with the same logic and language that we use. Based on this technology, machines store and organize knowledge in the same way that people do. When we communicate with the machine, we can talk in our own language. Machines are able to process learning, thinking, reasoning and discussing their knowledge with us.