Women to Watch: Computationally Intelligent

December 1, 2019 by Leslie Prives, Katianne Williams, Emily Dieckman

The arrival and future iterations of artificial intelligence and machine learning have been hot topics for some time now, but perhaps less well known is the cadre of academics and industry practitioners that sits behind the machines, researching and experimenting with how to model, govern, and engage true human behavior within these systems. This field, known as computational intelligence, is composed of three main areas: fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and neural networks.

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Engineering the Magic

When the Enchanted Tiki Room opened at Disney-land in Anaheim, Calif., in 1963, it was, by all accounts, thrilling. Inside were dozens of talking flowers, totem poles, and birds-colorful macaws, toucans, and cockatoos-and together they per-formed a musical show by dancing and singing along to tunes like the “Hawaiian War Chant.” Huge crowds visited the attraction, excited to get a look at these early Audio-Animatronics-“audio” meaning that sound triggered a series of mechanisms, like cams and levers, that caused a pneumatic valve to open and close, moving an eye, a beak, or part of the body in time with the music. People loved them.