Intelligent Speech and Memory Prosthese s Kenneth Mark Colby, M .D . Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science s Neuropsychiatric Institut e Center for the Health Science s 760 Westwood Plaz a Los Angeles, CA 9002 4 For the past several years at UCLA, w e (Daniel Christinaz, Roger Parkinson, an d myself) have been working on developin g microprocessor-based devices designed to ai d the speech-handicapped . This work derive d earlier attempts to stimulat e from our language in non-speaking autistic children (Ref . 1, 2, 3, 4) . These first attempt s were conducted on a large time-shared computer facility at the Artificial Intelligenc e Laboratory at Stanford University . Realizin g our methods would not easily generaliz e because of the rarity of such computer facilities, we awaited the development of persona l computers and a chip technology that woul d eventually make them even hand-portable suc h as a pocket calculator . Our first device of this nature was a n Intelligent Speech Prosthesis, an ISP (Ref . 5, 6) . (It is " intelligent " only in th e sense of containing rules for figuring out a n optimal solution in a
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