Hacking Human Minds

Presented at DEF CON 7 (1999), July 11, 1999, 4 p.m. (50 minutes).

Human expertise is not found in the sum of explicit practices or algorithms. It's in the experience, mental models and heuristics of individuals. Invisible to current Knowledge Engineering, psychology and (most) linguistics, these 'rules of thumb' are available (can be hacked) through specific pragmatic, syntactic, and semantic 'filters/handles' that can be detected, influenced, and transferred. Applications / instantiations to humans achieved. Computing and human/computer interface applications sought.


Presenters:

  • Charles Faulkner
    Charles Faulkner is a hacker (modeler, in polite society) of human experience and expertise whose projects have included language acquisition, futures trading, metaphoric communication, and object oriented software testing.

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