Guruduth Banavar is an executive at IBM leading the team developing a new generation of cognitive systems — don’t call it artificial intelligence — known as Watson.
“We fundametnally think that cognitive computing can help us design material for educating every individual in a unique way, in a way that aligns well with the learning style of that person. Every person is actually strong at certain ways of learning and discovering that is a difficult process. …
We are working pretty hard on building cognitive systems that discover a person’s learning style and then personalize the material that suit the individual, including the kinds of questions, exercises or modality, images versus text, symbols versus words.”
Here’s the source article from an NPR segment. And below that is an IBM white paper on “Computing, Cognition, and the future of knowing.”
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