Patryk Laurent, Ph.D

Industrial Labs

BrainOS — A Modular Software Framework and Library for Robotics

At Brain Corporation I work on a software framework for robotics called BrainOS. It is a simple, minimal system that allows you to create a "nervous system" for your robot -- linking sensors to algorithms to motors and back.

BrainOS includes a library of algorithms that can be mixed and matched to enable robots to do some very interesting things. The community release of BrainOS contains a subset of the available algorithms.

NNQL — A programming language for neural networks research

Previously I worked on a simple but powerful language for specifying and simulating neural networks. The concept behind NNQL was to minimize programming time while maximizing expressiveness and communications between modelers and non-modelers.

For more information, see the NNQL Microsite.

Inductive Logic, Inc. — Sentiment Analysis on Internet Text

In 2001, a colleague and I founded Inductive Logic -- a company that did sentiment analysis on internet discussions and traffic. This was a pioneering idea at the time -- now, more than a decade later, sentiment analysis on data streams like Twitter is commonplace in industry and in academia.