Presented at
The Eleventh HOPE (2016),
July 24, 2016, 2 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Huginn (<a href="https://github.com/cantino/huginn">https://github.com/cantino/huginn</a>) is an open-source human capability-amplifying and augmentation system which implements scenarios - networks of autonomous software agents that collectively analyze data and use it to accomplish sophisticated tasks on behalf of its users. External to Huginn is the Halo (<a href="https://github.com/virtadpt/exocortex-halo">https://github.com/virtadpt/exocortex-halo</a>), a collection of software constructs optimized for carrying out tasks too complex for Huginn due to resource requirements, contention, or reliance upon lower level libraries, including synthesizing speech, placing Voice over IP calls, and carrying out limited secretarial duties to facilitate human interaction. The development histories of both Huginn and Halo will be discussed during the first part of the talk with representative examples of the presenter's agent networks to demonstrate the architecture of scenarios as well as solutions to practical problems. Agents, the basic building blocks of Huginn scenarios and the software constructs of Halo will be briefly detailed to give an overview of some of possibilities of the two interrelated software systems. The talk will conclude with brief descriptions of some of the tasks that HOPE attendees can accomplish through the use of both Huginn and Halo.
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The Doctor
The Doctor is a security practitioner working for a currency remittance and financial software company on the West Coast. When not reading hex dumps, auditing code, writing bots to monitor critical business processes, or trying to break into his own networks from outside, he assists his local community however he can in making the world a better place, travels through time and space inside a funny blue box, contributes designs and code to a number of open-source hardware and software projects, and presents around the Bay Area on a number of technical topics. Exocortex, a software ecosystem for augmenting one's cognitive capabilities by farming out repetitive and tedious tasks that are still personally relevant, has been his skunkworks project for nearly 20 years and is now at the point where it should be usable by others.
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