Escape Velocity 2017

Software engineers need digital stand-ins for real people. Not just physical models, but cognitive models. These models need to perceive like people, understand like people, act like people, and even speak like people. And then these models need to do the same thing over and over again.

This panel will start the conversation with a live demonstration of the Integrated Recoverability Model (IRM). IRM is a desktop application that models a crew's response to an emergency at sea. Crew that has to navigate, perceive, and communicate inside of the designs of real ships.