Socrates Digital® for Learning and Problem Solving

There is a tremendous need for computer scientists, data scientists, and software developers to learn how to develop Socratic problem-solving applications.

While the amount of data and information processing has been accelerating, our ability to learn and problem-solve with that data has fallen behind. Meanwhile, problems have become too complex to solve in the workplace without a concerted effort to follow a problem-solving process. This problem-solving process must be able to deal with big and disparate data. Furthermore, it must solve problems that do not have a "rule" to apply in solving them. Moreover, it must deal with ambiguity and help humans use informed judgment to build on previous steps and create new understanding.

Computer-based Socratic problem-solving systems answer this need for a problem-solving process using big and disparate data. Furthermore, computer scientists, data scientists, and software developers need the knowledge to develop these systems. Socrates Digital® for Learning and Problem Solving presents the rationale for developing a Socratic problem-solving application.

It describes how a computer-based Socratic problem-solving system called Socrates Digital can keep problem-solvers on track, document the outcome of a problem-solving session, and share those results with problem-solvers and larger audiences. In addition, Socrates Digital assists problem-solvers in combining evidence about their quality of reasoning for individual problem-solving steps and their overall confidence in the solution. Socrates Digital also captures, manages, and distributes this knowledge across organizations to improve problem-solving.

This book also presents how to build a Socrates Digital system by detailing the four phases of design and development: understand, explore, materialize, and realize. The details include flow charts and pseudo-code for readers to implement Socrates Digital in a general-purpose programming language. The completion of the design and development process results in a Socrates Digital system that leverages artificial intelligence services from providers that include Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Amazon.

In addition, an appendix provides a demonstration of a no-code implementation of Socrates Digital in Microsoft Power Virtual Agent.

Book Details

• Author: Mark Salisbury
• Publisher: Engineering'science Reference
• eBook ISBN: 9781799879589, 1799879585
• Print ISBN: 9781799879558, 1799879550
• Other ISBNs: 9781799879572