Cognitive Technologies Explained

Cognitive Technologies
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Hq Location City:	Moscow
Hq Location Country:	Russia
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Key People:	Olga Uskova
Industry:	Autonomous cars Artificial intelligence
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Num Employees:	1500

Cognitive Technologies is a Russian software corporation that develops corporate business applications, AI-based advanced driver assistance systems. Founded in 1993 in Moscow (Russia), the company has offices in Eastern Europe, with R&D Centers in Russia.

History

Cognitive Technologies was founded in 1993 by Olga Uskova and Vladimir Arlazarov. The first employees previously worked in the team that developed the first world computer chess champion "Kaissa". The first programs developed by Cognitive Technologies were optical image and character recognition software – Tiger and CuneiForm.

In February 2015 Cognitive Technologies and Kamaz, Russian Dakar Rally-winning truck manufacturer, started working on the self-driving Kamaz truck project. The first field tests took place in June 2015.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

In 2015 Andrey Chernogorov was appointed CEO of the company.

Products

Cognitive Technologies develops business application software and self-driving vehicle artificial intelligence. The main products are:

• • C-pilot, AI-based ADAS E1 Evfrat – electronic workflow system
• CognitiveLot – e-purchasing systems

Cooperation with global companies

Under the contract signed between Cognitive Technologies and Hewlett-Packard, all scanners sold in Russia had text recognition software developed by Cognitive Technologies. It was the first contract with HP for an Eastern European company.^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

Afterwards, Cognitive Technologies signed OEM contracts and business agreements with several global IT-companies, including IBM, Canon, Corel, Samsung, Xerox, Brother, Epson, and Olivetti.^{[9] [10]}

In 1998 Cognitive Technologies became the first company in Eastern Europe to get the Oracle Complementary Software Provider status.^{[11] [12]}

In 2001 Cognitive Technologies sold its Russian language speech corpus to Intel.^{[13] [14]}

In 2010 Cognitive Technologies sold its text parsing module to Yandex. The company also signed an agreement with NVIDIA join efforts in the development of intelligent document recognition technologies.^{[15] [16]}

Self-driving car project

The system developed by Cognitive Technologies does not require building smart cities and smart roads equipped with multiple sensors – it works the opposite way, trying to understand the situation on the road like humans do. The system uses a video camera like a driver who uses his eyes, analyzing the information and focusing on the relevant data. For this purpose the system uses a special type of computer vision – foveal computer vision. Only 5–7% of the data gathered by the video cameras and sensors is processed by the system as relevant. The prototype is being tested in Russia on rough roads, on roads without marking, with the goal to prepare the system for work in difficult situations and on bad roads all around the world.^[17]

C-Pilot ADAS project

In August 2016 Cognitive Technologies started its own ADAS development project C-Pilot for ground transport control automation.^{[18] [19] [20] [21]}

Self-driving tractors and harvesters project

The experts from Cognitive Technologies claim that the system will track stones, poles, and other obstacles that might be dangerous for the vehicles. This data will enable the engineers to develop an interactive field map, with GPS coordinates for stones and other obstacles. Eventually, this will result in an alteration of the harvester's movement pattern preventing it from running into stones or other objects that may inflict damage. Harvesters will work autonomously on the field, on the territory that is narrowed by radio beacons.^{[22] [23]}

Present international activities

In 2016 Cognitive Technologies has joined the international community OpenPower Foundation, a consortium of open source solutions to developers based on POWER technology from IBM, which includes the world's leading IT map of Google, NVidia, Mellanox, etc.^{[24] [25] [26]}

Within the consortium Cognitive Technologies is the initiator of forming of an international working group to develop a single software standard for the self-driving vehicle control.^[27]

Awards

• In 2016, the leading Russian business newspaper Kommersant, announced that Cognitive Technologies is the TOP-2 Russian software company.^[28]
• TOP-6 Russian software company in 2015 according to Russoft^[29]
• TOP-500 biggest Russian companies according to RBC^[30]
• TOP-2 company of the Russian EDMS market in 2014 according to IDC^[31]
• TOP-20 Russian biggest IT-companies in 2013 according to Cnews Analytics^[32]

Notes and References

1. http://www.forbes.ru/news/279313-kamaz-i-cognitive-technologies-nachali-razrabotku-gruzovika-bespilotnika KAMAZ and Cognitive Technologies began the development of drone-truck
2. https://ria.ru/economy/20150203/1045597217.html#14229689680943&message=resize&relto=register&action=addClass&value=registration КАМАЗ и Cognitive Technologies разрабатывают беспилотный автомобиль
3. http://www.interfax-russia.ru/Povoljie/news.asp?id=578876&sec=1671 Cognitive Technologies приступила к разработке беспилотного КАМАЗа
4. http://www.interfax.ru/business/421622 Российская компания начала разработку беспилотного "КамАЗа"
5. Контракт Hewlett-Packard и Cognitive Technologies "Законные" сканеры HP научатся читать по-русски, Kommersant, 1 September 1994
6. https://www.crn.ru/numbers/reg-numbers/detail.php?ID=1828 Cканеры HP под флагом CuneiForm
7. http://ko.ru/articles/2902 Сделано в России
8. http://www.algonet.ru/?ID=30778 Hewlett-Packard presents new products in Moscow
9. http://www.osp.ru/cw/1996/46/15794/ Один "фантастический" день из жизни Cognitive
10. https://www.pcweek.ru/themes/detail.php?ID=79812 Второй шаг Cognitive Technologies к крупным проектам
11. http://www.osp.ru/cw/1995/11/1795/ LVS, Oracle, Cognitive и HP приступили к архивированию
12. https://www.pcweek.ru/themes/detail.php?ID=78929 Контракт Oracle и Cognitive Technologies
13. https://www.pcweek.ru/industrial/article/detail.php?ID=60559 Лепта в развитие речевых технологий в России
14. http://www.osp.ru/cw/2001/46/47096/ «Русская речь» от Intel
15. https://www.crn.ru/news/detail.php?ID=35667 Cognitive Technologies и NVIDIA : стратегическое сотрудничество
16. http://www.cnews.ru/news/line/cognitive_technologies_i_nvidia_sotrudnichayut Cognitive Technologies и Nvidia сотрудничают в области технологий обработки документов и изображений
17. http://rbth.com/science_and_tech/2016/05/23/pilotless-transportation-literally-takes-off-in-russia_596625 Pilotless transportation literally takes off in Russia
18. http://tass.ru/ekonomika/3559866 Российская компания планирует занять 3–5% рынка систем автономного вождения к 2022 году
19. https://life.ru/t/%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B8/893991/v_rossii_razrabotali_iskusstviennyi_intielliekt_dlia_avto В России разработали искусственный интеллект для авто
20. http://rbth.com/science_and_tech/2016/08/26/can-russians-save-tesla_624515 Can Russians save Tesla?
21. http://actualapple.com/the-russian-company-introduced-the-self-driving-car-system-c-pilot-for-any-car/ The Russian company introduced the self-driving car system C-Pilot for any car
22. http://www.bbc.com/russian/news/2016/06/160610_russia_tractor_tests В Татарстане испытывают беспилотный трактор
23. http://www.agrarheute.com/news/landmaschine-zukunft-unbemannter-traktor-feldeinsatz Landmaschine der Zukunft: Unbemannter Traktor im Feldeinsatz
24. http://ru.pcmag.com/news/25376/cognitive-technologies-prisoediniaetsia-k-soobshchestvu-open Cognitive Technologies присоединяется к сообществу OpenPower Foundation
25. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/european-market-adopting-openpower-technology-111623625.html European Market Adopting OpenPOWER Technology at Accelerated Pace
26. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/european-market-adopting-openpower-technology-at-accelerated-pace-2170214.htm European Market Adopting OpenPOWER Technology at Accelerated Pace
27. http://izvestia.ru/news/644412 Российская компания разработает мировой стандарт автобеспилотника
28. Таблица 2.Разработка программного обеспечения, Kommersant, 4 April 2016
29. https://www.pcweek.ru/business/news-company/detail.php?ID=177949 «РУССОФТ» составила рейтинг крупнейших софтверных компаний России
30. http://www.rbc.ru/rbc500/ Рейтинг крупнейших компаний по выручке
31. https://www.crn.ru/news/detail.php?ID=98388 IDC оценила рынок СЭД
32. http://filearchive.cnews.ru/mag/2014/05/CNews_72.pdf Рейтинг крупнейших российских IT-компаний