Intelligent Biologically Inspired Design

Engineers are interested in solving some practical problem, such as capturing water vapor in arid regions. They intend to use biological analogs as a source of inspiration. Doing so, however, raises several problems. First, the biological literature is immense, and keyword-based search produces voluminous hits, but most of the retrieved documents are of no use. That is, there is a high recall but low precision. The second problem is that even when a document looks like it might be relevant, it is still burdensome for the engineer to make a determination.

Faculty Lead(s)
Ashok Goel, Spencer Rugaber
Student Name(s)
Jeffrey Jacob, Ruth Petit-Bois; Tesca Fitzgerald, David Joyner, Rochelle Lobo, Bryan Wiltgen, Gongbo Zhang
Main Contact
Ashok Goel
Lab Name
Design & Intelligence Laboratory
Video Title
IBID
Video URL
[VIDEO::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCDDNSyCd8o]