Assembling Hybrid Minds

S-MINDS 2-Way Speech-To-Speech Translation System

Sehda’s 2-way speech translation system, S-MINDS, interprets between provider and patient in routine medical interactions with very high accuracy. Optimizing the system for new tasks or languages requires very little data. New developments include a hybrid translation approach that allows participants to say complex or out-ofdomain utterances, the expansion of hands-free functionality, and the ...

A High-speed Architecture for Building Hybrid Minds

A resurgence of interest has taken place supporting the idea of an intelligence composed of many simple components or “subminds”. There is a growing consensus that, rather than a small number of “elegant” techniques for reasoning, inference or learning being the key to A.I., a model more likely to succeed might consist of perhaps thousands of simple agents co-operating such that an emergent int...

Grafting short peptides onto polybutadiene-block-poly(ethylene oxide): a platform for self-assembling hybrid amphiphiles.

Design of Self-Assembling Protein-Polymer Conjugates.

Protein-polymer conjugates are of particular interest for nanobiotechnology applications because of the various and complementary roles that each component may play in composite hybrid-materials. This chapter focuses on the design principles and applications of self-assembling protein-polymer conjugate materials. We address the general design methodology, from both synthetic and genetic perspec...

A Hybrid Thermal Assisted Friction Stir Welding Approach for PMMA Sheets

The widespread application of thermoplastic polymers in different aspects of industries has motivated researchers and companies to improve and upgrade their forming, joining and assembling processes to overcome their limitations. One of the newest joining methods of thermoplastics is friction stir welding which is based on frictional heat generated through contact between a rotating tool and th...