Computing with Meaning
Self-Aware Systems, based in Palo Alto, is developing a new kind of intelligent software technology and a wide range of applications based on it. We aim both to improve society and to create value for our investors, inventors, and licensees.
While the computational power of our hardware continues to advance according to Moore’s law, there is a growing sense of frustration with the lack of fundamental innovation in today’s computational infrastructure. Today’s software is hard to write, harder to change, and is often buggy, insecure, and awkward to use just as it was in the 1960′s. Today’s popular programming languages have become bloated messes and are based on old paradigms. While today’s software only manipulates bits, the Self-Aware Systems technology operates on meaning. This has a profound effect on the kinds of systems that can be built and the ease with which they can be adapted to changing conditions.
We are developing a wide range of innovations based on our technology and will be popularizing it and licensing it as it becomes mature. We intend to incorporate meaning into every aspect of computing and human interaction. We are building semantic databases which allow semantic indexing and semantic searching. We are developing systems for semantic recognition in a variety of domains. Semantic voting, semantic knowledge aggregation, and semantic decision making enable much better choices to be made. Semantic simulations enable decision makers to model complex systems much more effectively. Semantic tools for creativity in the arts and in design allow creators to work at a high level. Semantic graphics, vision, and robotics allows these systems to be far more flexible and capable than they are today. Semantic representations of legal knowledge allow for more rational and effective legal decision making and enforcement. Semantic contract, rule, and law design can produce stable and effective governance. Semantic financial and investment modeling can incorporate a much broader range of information.
In addition to technological and business development, Self-Aware Systems also analyzes the longer term impact of intelligent technologies. The papers and talks on this website describe a number of new insights into beneficial intelligent technology and present strategies for effectively introducing it into society.
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