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Personal Companion Wanted - For Your PC?

Your PC just might talk back!

January 31, 2007 1:19:05 AM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
Coming soon to a desktop near you, or make that your office, bedroom, classroom.....your personal computer will be programmed to work with you, behave the way you do, talk with you, be your peer...your companion?!


I must have been living under a rock! I'm seeing this for the first time and it's old news! In perusing the Chicago Flame, the independent newspaper of the University of Illinois , I read that Associate Professor of Computer Science, Barbara Di Eugenio, received a three-year grant in the amount of $520,000 from the National Science Foundation to produce a program called a "dialog agent". She is going to share this award with a couple of her peers who will assist her in developing a program that will speak, think and react like a college student!


So basically this program will be an interactive one. The one thing that amazed me about this story when I read it though was the big question that was asked, "....can this computer student "peer" find acceptance among female undergraduates, whose enrollment numbers in computer science are on the decline?"


Let's leave the enrollment part alone for now, but why I wonder, wouldn't the program be accepted by female undergraduates? Would it be too complicated? Would they consider it to be biased if they didn't 'get it'? Or would the female undergraduates just chalk the PC Companion down to being just like a guy...hard to decipher and even harder to compute? It just wouldn't understand them?!

I think Professor Di Eugenio might be underestimating the power of the female mind. It is said that there are less female students taking Computer Science, perhaps it's just a subject that just doesn't appeal enough somehow? Then again, I'm selling my girls short by thinking that way! We are women hear us roar!

Well, whatever the outcome, and I'll have to see if I can find more info about the status of this personal computer blind date, I'm sure the ladies of Computer Science should have no problem at all with it! Women are known to change a guy to their way of thinking and grooming him into what they want him to be you know, why should an interactive PC program be any different?!


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Reply #1 January 31, 2007 7:10:51 AM
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Good Morning Dave, how are you today?
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Reply #2 January 31, 2007 8:37:11 AM
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Well, whatever the outcome, and I'll have to see if I can find more info about the status of this personal computer blind date, I'm sure the ladies of Computer Science should have no problem at all with it! Women are known to change a guy to their way of thinking and grooming him into what they want him to be you know, why should an interactive PC program be any different?!


Thanks for the info...never heard of it either and agree wholly, Females wouldn't have a problem, in fact we may be more patient and persistent

Will look for you posting more info

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Reply #3 January 31, 2007 10:44:01 AM
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perhaps it's just a subject that just doesn't appeal enough somehow?

 

The PC cops on any campus won't allow this sort of thing to be voiced aloud... everything must appeal to each sex equally no matter what!

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Reply #4 January 31, 2007 12:51:40 PM
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Good Morning Dave, how are you today?


If you get a response Doc you better run!! Then again, why should it be Dave, wouldn't it be Diane?!!



Thanks for the info...never heard of it either and agree wholly, Females wouldn't have a problem, in fact we may be more patient and persistent Will look for you posting more info


You're welcome! I'll keep an eye out for it!


PC cops on any campus won't allow this sort of thing to be voiced aloud... everything must appeal to each sex equally no matter what!


! Grey, I think you're right! I guess I've forgotten how equally liberal campus life has to be!
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Reply #5 January 31, 2007 4:08:49 PM
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If you get a response Doc you better run!! Then again, why should it be Dave, wouldn't it be Diane?!!


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Reply #6 February 1, 2007 3:26:22 PM
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I haven't found anything else about how far the research is today. But I did find out that Dr. Di Eugenio actually do want more women to be involved in her field, Computer Science! Her goal with the project she's working on is to attract more women who will feel more comfortable because of the dialog agent she's developing!

I think this is definitely good news!

Here's a link to the official press release, basically the same info as the one in the Chicago Flame but read further and you'll read how much she's encouraging women in Science!

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Reply #7 February 2, 2007 9:05:55 AM
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Thanks again foreverserenity

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