Dick Stottler, Co-founder and CEO of Stottler Henke, shares his extensive expertise in AI solutions tailored for complex problems. He discusses innovative applications of intelligent software in defense, space missions, and education, emphasizing human oversight in automated systems. Stottler dives into cognitive task analysis in satellite operations and the importance of symbolic techniques in AI to improve accuracy. He also addresses misconceptions about AI's capabilities and explores the evolving public perception of intelligent systems.
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Stottler Henke Origin
Dick Stottler's boss at SAIC was fired, leading to poor treatment of the remaining employees.
He left and became a consultant for Gary Klein, which directly led to the founding of Stottler Henke.
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Mimicking Human Decisions
Stottler Henke focuses on mimicking human decision processes in software.
This approach requires understanding human thought processes.
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First Project
One of Stottler Henke's first projects involved comparison-based prediction, similar to case-based reasoning in AI.
The project focused on manufacturing cost estimation for a company, possibly named Friend, in Ohio.
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Dick co-founded Stottler Henke in 1988 as a software company dedicated to providing practical solutions to difficult problems by skillfully drawing upon a large repertoire of artificial intelligence technologies. Under Dick’s leadership, Stottler Henke has grown steadily and profitably into a 60-person research and software development company with distinctive expertise in automated planning and scheduling, intelligent tutoring systems, intelligent simulation, sensor data fusion, and autonomous systems.
Dick combines a strong applied research record in artificial intelligence with practical experience in rapid and efficient knowledge engineering. He has led the development of intelligent tutoring systems that encode the expertise of instructors to provide practice-based learning and automated evaluation of student performance. Subject areas include navy tactics; army tactics, command, and control; sonar data analysis; astronaut training; helicopter cockpit operations; and battlefield emergency medicine. He led the development of intelligent planning systems for NASA space shuttle missions, satellite communications and sensor scheduling, and aircraft assembly. He also led the development of intelligent systems that autonomously control groups of drones to automatically plan and execute tasks to achieve mission objectives and react to unpredictable events.
Dick has written or presented more than 80 papers and articles for publications such as the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). He received his BS in engineering from Cornell University and his MS in computer science (artificial intelligence) from Stanford University.
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