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| Newton Howard |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), |
| Regular Member |
| Personal Web Site: |
| Main page: http://www.mirlabs.net/global/index.php?c=main&a=person&id=790 |
| Short Biography |
| Newton Howard (nhmit@mit.edu) is the director of the Mind Machine Project and a resident scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his Doctoral degree in Cognitive Informatics and Mathematics from La Sorbonne, France where he was also awarded the Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches for his leading work on the Physics of Cognition (PoC) and its applications to complex medical, economical and security equilibriums. While a graduate member of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oxford, England, he proposed the Theory of Intention Awareness (IA), which made a significant impact on the design of command and control systems and information exchange systems at tactical operational and strategic levels. He has served as the Chairman of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), the leading Washington, D.C, National Security Group and is currently its board director. He is a national security advisor to several U.S. Government organizations. He recently published The Mood State Indicators (MSI) algorithm, which modeled and explained the mental processes involved in human speech and writing, to predict emotional states. His natural-language approaches to systems understanding and design pointed to the multi-dimensional structures embedded and nested within speech-based cognitive systems, which have led to much advancement in building more accurate cognitive engines for modeling behavioral and cognitive feedback. Dr. Howard works with multi-disciplinary teams of physicists, chemists, biologists, brain scientists, computer scientists, and engineers to reach a deeper understanding of the brain. Dr. Howard’s research efforts aim to improve the quality of life for so many who suffer from degenerating conditions currently considered incurable. To further advance our understanding of the brain and neurological disorders Dr. Howard established the Brain Sciences Foundation (BSF), which conducts multidisciplinary research in collaboration with universities, companies around the world. Advancing the field of brain sciences opens new opportunities for solving brain disorders and finding new means for developing artificial intelligence. Dr. Howard’s most recent work focuses on the development of functional brain and neuron interfacing abilities. To better understand the structure and character of this information transfer he concentrated on theoretical mathematical models to represent the exchange of information inside the human brain. This work has proven applicable in the diagnosis and study of brain disorders and has aided in developing and implementing necessary pharmacological and therapeutic tools for physicians. He has also developed individualized strategies to incorporate solutions for psychiatric and brain prosthetics. Through collaborative research efforts with MIT and Boston University, Howard has studied principles of behavioral and molecular mechanisms affected by brain diseases. |
| List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years |
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1. Howard, N. & Singletary, B. (2012). Sensemaking in Symbiotic Joint-Cognitive Systems; Intention Awareness in Human-Machine Interaction. In Press, Cognitive Computation. 2. Howard, N. (2012). Identifying and Modeling Language, Brain and Perception: A Narrative Approach. In Press, Journal of Functional Neurology, Rehabilitation and Ergonomics, 2(4).
3. Howard N. (2012). Cognitive Architecture Integrating Situation Awareness and Intention Awareness; The Case of Network-Centric Information Policy. In Press, Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS).
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