Southern Polytechnic State University
Colloquium Series
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Wednesday, November 10, 5:30-6:30 PM
Room J 131
(Speaker available at 5:00 PM for an informal conversation over
refreshments)
Dr. Norman D. Geddes
CEO and Principal Scientist
Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc.
Engineering Knowledge-Based Systems
Abstract
Knowledge-based systems are software systems whose behavior is determined by a separate and explicit body of knowledge manipulated by the software processes of the system. These systems have both a software component and a knowledge component that must be designed, integrated and tested.
The engineering of knowledge-based systems, while similar in some ways to conventional software engineering, requires several important extra activities in order to map the system-level requirements to the knowledge component and to map the integration and testing activities to the knowledge and software components.
Over the past 15 years, Dr. Geddes has developed a number of large-scale intelligent systems for aerospace and business application. This talk will describe the issues, challenges and methods his team has used to successfully develop these systems in a disciplined and reliable manner.
About the Speaker
Dr. Norman D. Geddes received his B.A. degree in Physics from Rice University (1971), an M.S. in Aeronautical Systems from the University of West Florida (1972), and his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (1989), with a major in man-machine systems and minor in artificial intelligence. He is also a graduate of U.S. Navy pilot training, an experienced tactical jet fighter pilot, and has served as an Aeronautical Engineering Duty Officer in the Naval Air Reserves.
As CEO and Principal Scientist of Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc. since 1990, Dr. Geddes provides support to a number of defense, NASA and commercial artificial intelligence applications in the aerospace and transportation industries. His activities include systems engineering for large scale intelligent systems, knowledge acquisition and engineering, test and evaluation, and cognitive modeling and simulation of human operators.
Dr. Geddes has played a key role in the development and application of intelligent user interfaces based on artificial intelligence principles. First as lead systems engineer for the intelligent interface and later as technical project manager for the Lockheed/USAF/DARPA Pilot’s Associate Program, Dr. Geddes guided the development of aiding methods and knowledge representations for a comprehensive decision support environment for tactical operations. His pioneering work in modeling human operator intentions and in information management has been used successfully in a wide variety of defense and commercial research applications.
Prior to his work in intelligent decision aiding, Dr. Geddes was director of system development for GEC Marconi Avionics, Inc. He is also experienced in the development of manned and unmanned system simulations, having worked at General Electric in the development of training simulations. As a fighter pilot in the Navy, Dr. Geddes served tours as a jet flight instructor and as a project test pilot.
Dr. Geddes professional interests include tactical air and sea operations, intelligent decision support systems, system simulation, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. His professional society memberships include the IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGART and SIGCHI and the AIAA.
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