An Overviewof the ATGIntelligentSystemsProgram James R. Miller The potential of intelligent user interfaces have been obvious for many years one only has to look at the Knowledge Navigator video or any of a large number of science fiction novels or films to appreciate what it could be like to interact with computers in ways analogous to how people interact with other people. However, the computing industry, throughout this time, has remained incapable of building systems with these capabilities. The technology demands are great, as are the human interaction design problems that must ultimately be solved to yield a system that is truly useful to people. Consequentially, the Intelligent Systems Program chose a different approach: that of partial understanding. Since the dream of truly intelligent interaction lies beyond our capabilities, we worked to approximate this dream with technologies that were available to us. This led to a different approach to the intelligent interface question and to our work: we thought less about problems that have resisted solution for decades, and more about the real needs that users have and how they can best be satisfied. The tools of the intelligent interfaces community parsers, inference engines, knowledge representation, language understanding
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