New application scenarios, such as Internet-scale computations, nomadic networks and mobile systems, require decentralized, scalable and open infrastructures. The peerto-peer (P2P...
At the Media Lab we are developing a resource called StoryNet, a very-large database of story scripts that can be used for commonsense reasoning by computers. This paper introduce...
A student's goals and attitudes while interacting with a tutor are typically unseen and unknowable. However their outward behavior (e.g. problem-solving time, mistakes and hel...
Most of today’s course generation does not allow an in-depth, generic representation of pedagogical knowledge. However, supporting individual learners with different goals requi...
All known life forms process information on a molecular level. This kind of chemical information processing is known to be robust, self-organizing, adaptive, decentralized, asynch...