NewVectors Projects

Architectures for Cognitive Information Processing (ACIP)

How can you build “intelligent hardware” that is capable of dynamically reconfiguring itself to provide the best solution to the problem at hand? NewVectors is participating in a project for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) research community called Architectures for Cognitive Information Processing (ACIP). As part of a team led by Lockheed Martin, NewVectors will help to design and build the “cognitive layer” of a Polymorphous Cognitive Agent Architecture (PCAA).

Two goals will be to make the system very fast, and very flexible. Thus, the cognitive layer will figure out, at runtime, how to best compose solutions to problems specified in a high-level description language. Solutions will be expressed all the way down to the hardware level using a re-configurable fabric based on field programmable gate arrays. We expect that our nascent ideas for applying swarm intelligence in symbolically structured semantic spaces will catalyze some very interesting and fruitful research. We also hope to investigate ways of supporting swarm intelligence directly in hardware.