Olga Tokarczuk w Rumunii

166 Olga Ruban

Mobility and reduction of industrial activity time is one of the major requirements raised to modern systems of automation. One of the most effective ways of achievement of this purpose is vertical integration with use of wireless technologies. The lab set – model of vertical integration for data gathering from the intellectual Profibus РА sensor, Profibus DP data transmission, controllers conf...

In Memoriam: Olga Taussky-Todd

838 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 43, NUMBER 8 O lga Taussky-Todd passed away in her sleep on Saturday, October 7, 1995, at the age of 89, at her home in Pasadena, California, where she was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, the mathematician John (Jack) Todd, also Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Caltech. He ...

Some personal reminiscences of Olga Taussky-Todd

Olga - a conversational agent with gestures

The Olga project has developed an animated agent interface for information services. The interface combines a graphical interface, spoken dialogue and an animated 3D ‘human-like’ character for multimodal input and output. The interaction is intelligently managed using techniques derived from spoken dialogue but extended for the graphical modality. The Olga agent is innovative in combining a spo...

OLGA - a dialogue system with an animated talking agent

The object of the Olga project is to develop an interactive 3D animated talking agent. A futuristic application scenario is interactive digital TV, where the Olga agent would guide naive users through the various services available on the network. The current application is a consumer information service for microwave ovens. Olga required the development of a system with components from many di...