Applied Software Engineering Research (ASER)

"... But making sense of all these automatic updates can be a lengthy process. So Xiaohui Cui and colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, US, developed a feed-organizing system based on flocks of virtual birds. The system uses a modified version of the software that creates animations of birds in movies and video games..."

-- NewScientist.com

	ASER in the News Swarm Intelligence Inspired by Animals ( Read the Story ) 04/14/2008 It’s never too late to learn about the birds and the bees. Particularly when they can help enhance surveillance photos, quickly sort through military reports and even enable individual robots to navigate within an army of fellow automatons. -- MSNBC Researcher Focuses on Analysis ( Read the Story ) 12/29/2007 Tom Potok talks about his department at Oak Ridge National Laboratory using a cluster of Sony PlayStation 3s, front right, to develop and test software. Potok leads a research group at ORNL that creates software that apes humans’ organizational and communication skills to improve high-performance computers. -- KnoxNews.com ASER's Piranha Project Won 2007 R&D 100 Award ( Read the Story ) 07/03/2007 "Piranha — A “knowledge discovery engine” that uses intelligent agent technology and a cluster computer to accurately analyze huge volumes of data. The ORNL team included Mark Elmore, Brian Klump, Robert Patton, Thomas Potok, Joel Reed" -- KnoxNews.com Discovery: Dynamic Dimensionality Reduction ( Read the Story ) 01/19/2007 "... to help search engines perform more efficiently by reducing the original amount of information, making what remains more manageable. Lead investigator is Cathy Jiao. Jiao's technique does not involve sampling, which can result in conceptual losses; also, the new method works better than old approaches in dealing with dynamic, rather than static data. Jiao told NONT the dimensionality approach is valuable in pre-processing natural language data, and her output can become input for knowledge-discovery tools..." -- News of Nashville Technology Flocking Birds Inspire Information Organization ( Read the Story ) 05/18/2006 "... But making sense of all these automatic updates can be a lengthy process. So Xiaohui Cui and colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, US, developed a feed-organizing system based on flocks of virtual birds. The system uses a modified version of the software that creates animations of birds in movies and video games..." -- NewScientist.com Improving Cop Communications May Help Solve Crimes WBIR TV ( Read the Story ) 02/24/2005 "... 'You assume everybody's connected, that all this information is available and everybody's sharing it,' says ORNL Researcher Tom Potok, who helped develop the data system. 'When you hear people have limited budgets, little ability to use technology and networking, it was very surprising.' ..." -- WBIR.com Criminals Are Target of ORNL Advanced Communications System ( Read the Story ) 03/02/2005 "... 'An intelligent agent is a software program that can mimic human behavior, meaning it can communicate with one or more agents and sort through vast amounts of information,' said co-developer Tom Potok, who heads ORNL's Applied Software Engineering Research group..." -- ScienceDaily.com Thomas E. Potok, Ph.D., was interviewed by the author of the book "The Geeks of War: The Secretive Labs and Brilliant Minds Behind Tomorrow's Warfare Technologies." By John Edwards American Management Association Publisher ISBN-10: 0814408524 05/30/2005 Available from amazon.com Team of ORNL ‘Agents’ Working to Keep People Safe ( Read the Story ) 06/17/2004 "Thousands of special agents created at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are on missions 24 hours a day as they work to uncover threats to national security..." -- NewsWise.com Vigilant Computer Agents Protect The Homeland ( Read the Story ) 08/23/2004 "Each day, Oak Ridge National Laboratory dispatches thousands of agents on a search for threats to national security. While these agents maintain 24/7 vigilance, they aren't elite government operatives. They're software programs that scan the Internet, satellite images, and hundreds of newspapers and databases worldwide for potential dangers. Also, they can reproduce and spin off specialized agents to focus on data that requires further examination..." -- ElectronicDesign.com Homeland Security’s Intelligent Agents ( Read the Story ) 02/2005 "... Funded by the department of Defense and Homeland Security, the team of intelligent software agents being developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) scan the Internet hoping to spot anything that hints at a possible threat. The goal of the team led by Thomas Potok at the Applied Software Engineering Research Group, is to use software agents to gather the huge amounts of information available and to cluster them according to content similarity, thereby reducing the data to something manageable that a hyman analyst can examine..." -- HSToday, February 2005, vol.2, No.2

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