uMind Artificial Intelligence Software Poised to Take Over eLearning World

Montreal, Canada, October 05, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Dr. Claude Frasson, a world-renowned thought leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), today announced the creation of uMind, a company specializing in the delivery of a patented, second-generation eLearning software.

A result of 10 years of research and development, uMind will deliver two pioneering platforms that teach rather than simply deploy content. Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence, uSim and uLearn estimate, control, and anticipate learner behavior. They build and modify the learning path in real-time and generate advanced pedagogical strategies according to the learner’s needs. They assist and guide the learner throughout the course and provide him with relevant, adapted feedback in real-time.

uMind platforms dramatically increase learning, understanding, and retention by dynamically adapting training to each learner’s existing knowledge base, skill-gaps, preferred cadence and learning style. Overall learning time has been proved to decrease by an astonishing 50% while learning and retention is improved by more than 35% as demonstrated by independent studies.

“We have taken dynamic, adaptive learning to levels never experienced in the past,” said Claude Frasson. “Our primary objective is to build technology that understands and responds to the human learning process rather than the other way around”.

Suited to a wide cross-section of applications, uMind platforms, which seamlessly integrate state-of-the-art learning techniques, have excelled at everything from critical training in the transportation, education, telecom and public safety and security fields to just-in-time learning for professionals in some of North America’s top financial services firms.

“The mettle of our top-caliber research and design team was consistently tested in the refinement of these market-leading technologies” which combine eLearning and Artificial Intelligence” affirmed Dr. Frasson. “Now each additional innovation is limited only by our imagination”.

Dr. Frasson is the founder of the Intelligent Tutoring System Conference (ITS), a forum which attracts 500 top-level international researchers for the exchange of cutting-edge ideas in the areas of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Human learning. He is also an advisor to both the United Nations and the World Bank, as well as a tenured professor at the University of Montreal. Currently, Dr. Frasson heads the Heron Laboratory and the GRITI, a group of 75 multidisciplinary researchers across seven North American universities whose ultimate goal is to understand how the brain produces, stores and retrieves knowledge.

Artificial Intelligence is a branch of computer science and engineering which has traditionally dealt with intelligent behavior, learning and adaptation in machines in order to provide automated solutions to real-life challenges. This generally involves borrowing characteristics from human intelligence, and applying them as algorithms in a computer-friendly way. Whereas first-generation Artificial Intelligence learning systems focused on emulating human behavior—perceive, reason, make decisions and act—to perform a task, uMind’s second-generation iLearning systems far surpass simple mimic.

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