Webum > Computers > Artificial Intelligence > People Cognitive Scientists@ Fuzzy Intelligence People@ Neural Networks People@ Minsky, Marvin@ Papert, Seymour@ Turing, Alan@ Warwick, Kevin See also Computers > Computer Science > People Computers > History > Pioneers Computers > Robotics > History > People AAAI Elected Fellows Elected Fellows of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Allen, James F. University of Rochester. Natural language understanding, discourse, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning and planning. Altman, Christopher: Quantum Information Science and Technology ATIP, Tokyo, Japan. Physics, neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Angele, Jürgen Ontoprise. Knowledge engineering, domain and task modeling, ontologies, KARL, MIKE, web portals. Bacchus, Fahiem University of Toronto. Planning systems, temporal logic, constraint satisfaction problems and formal models. Bagga, Amit Avaya, Inc. Document summarization, information retrieval, cross-document coreference. Bahlmann, Claus Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, On-line handwriting recognition. Ball, Gene Microsoft Research. Conversational interfaces, emotional modeling, lifelike computer characters. Benjamin, D. Paul Pace University. Problem decomposition and theory reformulation, integrated cognitive architectures for autonomous robots, distributed constraint satisfaction problems, semigroup theory and dynamical systems, category theory in software design. Biermann, Alan W. Duke University. Chair, Department of Computer Science. AAAI Fellow. Computational linguistics, automatic programming and inference, Author of Great Ideas in Computer Science. Blum, Avrim Carnegie Mellon University. Interests include machine learning, approximation algorithms, on-line algorithms and planning systems. Online publications and talks. Boumaza, Amine INRIA. Computer vision, mobile robots, evolutionary programming, AI and machine learning. Brachman, Ron Director of the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) at DARPA. Knowledge representation, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing. Branting, L. Karl LiveWire Logic, Inc. Empirical methods of natural language processing, case-based reasoning, AI and law, ecological and environmental applications of AI. Bunt, Andrea University of British Columbia. User modeling, adaptive interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems. Carberry, Sandra University of Delaware. Department of Computer and Information Sciences Chair. Computational linguistics, dialog systems, machine learning, planning and plan recognition, medical informatics, user modeling. Carreras, Xavier Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, PhD student, machine learning, natural language processing. Cassell, Justine MIT Media Lab. Gesture and narrative language, animated agents, intonation, facial expression, computer vision. Chachra, Sumit University of Arizona. Document analysis, biometrics, image retrieval, autonomic computing. Charniak, Eugene Brown University. Part-of-speech tagging, probabilistic context-free grammar induction, syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic parsing, and lexical resource acquisition through statistical means. Chavez, Guillermo Camara Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Pattern recognition, invariante pattern recognition, neural networks, image content-base retrieval, digital image processing, computer vision. Chen, Yenming Data Mining, Fractals, Financial, Meta-Modeling Theory. Clancey, William J. NASA/Ames Research Center. Brahms multiagent simulation system, situated cognition, Haughton-Mars Project, human-centered computing. Clough, Paul D. University of Sheffield. Information retrieval. Conati, Cristina University of British Columbia. User modeling, emotionally intelligent agents, adaptive user interfaces, Bayesian network student models. Conitzer, Vincent , Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Phd Student. Intersection of computer science and game theory, computer science and economics, multiagent systems, automated negotiation and contracting. Cortes, Nareli Cruz CINVESTAV-IPN. Artificial immune system optimization, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation. Crow, Dan Unicru Inc. Intelligent search engines, machine learning, concept abstraction, adaptive interfaces. Delord, Christophe ENSEEIHT, France, Computer Science engineer, Artificial Intelligence (dialogue simulation, speech acts, PROLOG), Python, lexical and syntactic parsing. Di Eugenio, Barbara University of Illinois at Chicago. Interpretation and generation of instructional text, computational models of tutorial dialogue, modeling collaboration in human-human and computer-human dialogues, referential expressions. Dorigo, Marco Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Research projects in Ant algorithms, metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization, robot shaping and behavior engineering. Dorst, Leo University of Amsterdam. Applications of geometric (Clifford) algebra, exploration, reasoning with uncertainty in robotics. Ehlert, Patrick Delft University of Technology. List of projects and publications. Interests in agents and robotics. Elliott, Clark DePaul University. Affective reasoning, synthetic characters, animated tutoring agents, emotion representation. Faltings, Boi Director of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, EPFL, President of Swiss AI Society. Software agents, constraint-based reasoning, case-based reasoning. Finn, Aidan Smart Media Institute, University College Dublin. Machine learning for automatic genre classification, active learning for information extraction. Forbus, Kenneth Northwestern University. Qualitative physics, spatial reasoning, cognitive simulation of analogical processing. Fragos, Kostas National Technical University of Athens. Statistical natural language processing, signal processing, neural networks. Frasconi, Paolo Università di Firenze. Machine learning for sequential and structured data, bioinformatics, text and natural language, pattern recognition. Freeman, Richard University of Manchester. Machine learning, knowledge management, data visualization, artificial intelligence and neural networks. Geczy, Peter RIKEN Brain Science Institute. Neural networks, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, fuzzy logic, rule acquisition, rule extraction from neural networks, Autonomous Connectionistic Engine (ACE), neural network resources. Gini, Maria University of Minnesota. Distributed intelligence, cooperation of miniature robots, robot navigation, multi-agent systems for e-commerce and supply-chain, economic agents. Goyal, Ram Dayal Intigma India. Data mining, natural language processing, data mining, neural networks, image processing. Grasso, Floriana University of Liverpool. Computational models of natural argument, affective natural language generation, conflict resolution. Green, Nancy University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Intelligent multimdedia presentation systems, argumentation models, automatic generation of textual summaries of graphs, interactive narrative, conversation agents, user modeling. Greening, Dan R. CEO BigTribe. Entrepreneur and researcher. Personalization, collaborative filtering, computer-supported cooperative work, ubiquitous computing, simulated annealing, distributed computing, social psychology. Grosz, Barbara Harvard University. Collaborative planning, SharedPlans model of collaboration, discourse structure, intonation, centering. Guinn, Curry I. RTI International (Research Triangle Institute), Duke University. Natural language processing, spoken dialog systems, mixed-initiative interaction, virtual humans, conversational agents, affective computing. Guvenir, H. Altay Bilkent University. Machine learning, data mining, and computer-aided language learning. Haller, Susan University of Wisconsin - Park. Natural language processing, interactive discourse, text planning, intelligent tutoring systems. Harmelen, Frank van Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Approximate reasoning, medical protocols, semantic web, specification languages for KBS. Harper, Mary Purdue University. National Science Foundation. Integrating natural language and speech processing, prosodic analysis, statistical parsing, gesture and speech. Hartmann, Jens University of Karlsruhe (Germany). Data mining, knowledge representation, ontology learning, semantic web, knowledge portals. Hayes-Roth, Barbara Stanford University. Extempo Systems. Intelligent interactive characters, interactive story telling, adaptive intelligent agents. Hearst, Marti University of California at Berkeley. Data mining, information retrieval, user interfaces, web search. Hillan, Julie Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. relationship between social software/interfaces and human attitudes and behaviors; user responses to emotion in embodied agents. Ho, Shum Wing Chinese University of Hong Kong. Research interests are Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Intelligence. Hoos, Holger H. University of British Columbia. Preference elicitation, dynamic constraint optimization, satisfiability problems in propositional logic, computational musicology. Horvitz, Eric Microsoft Research. Decision theory, reasoning systems, user modeling, reasoning under uncertainty. Hotho, Andreas University of Karlsruhe, AIFB. Text, data and web mining especially in text clustering, semantic web mining, knowledge management. Ishizaki, Masato Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). Charcteristics of multi-party dialogue, patterns of dialogue initiative, standardisation on annotation schemes for Japanese spoken dialogue. Jackson, Peter Thomson Legal & Regulatory. Information extraction, expert systems, document summarization, AI and the law. Jacob, Christian University of Calgary. Emergent computing in biological networks, collective intelligence, swarm intelligence, genetic algorihms, genome programming. Jacob, Rob Tufts University. Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces, virtual environments, eye-gaze tracking. Jurafsky, Dan University of Colorado, Boulder. Latent semantic analysis, stochastic context-free grammars, pronunciation modeling, discourse tagging, bayesian models of sentence processing, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with James H. Martin. Kamali, Mahsa Amirkabir University of Technology. Facial image analysis and synthesis, gesture recognition, emotion modeling. Kamvar, Sepandar Stanford University. Probabilistic models in information retrieval, information extraction, and supervised and unsupervised learning. Katirai, Hooman MIT. Machine learning applied to medicine, text management, and computational linguistics. Klein, Jonathan iRobot Corporation. Affective computing, user modeling, emotionally responsive toys. Konieczny, Lars Institute of Computer Science and Social Research. Psycholinguistics, sentence comprehension, cognitive parsing, ACT-R. Konik, Tolga University of Michigan AI Lab, Ph.D. student, machine learning, learning by observation, qualitative reasoning. Krogt, Roman van der Delft University of Technology. PhD Student, Plan repair in multi-agent environments. Kulbacki, Marek Polish Academy of Sciences. Vulcan. Machine Learning, realistic human motion modeling. Kurban, Rifat Erciyes University. Artificial neural networks, speech processing, digital signal processing, speaker recognition, image processing. Lambert, Lynn Christopher Newport University. Natural language processing, planning and plan recognition, belief models, negotiation. Lester, James North Carolina State University. Intellimedia initiative, animated pedagogical agents, 3D learning environments, natural language generation. Lin, Fan Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Maryland University, machine learning, data mining. Lisetti, Christine University of Central Florida. Emotional intelligence, computational models of emotions and affective processes, affective computing. Litman, Diane J. University of Pittsburgh. Spoken dialogue for intelligent tutoring systems, reinforcement learning for optimizing spoken dialogue agents, prosodic analysis of misrecognitions and corrections, plan recognition. Littman, Michael Rutgers. Planning under uncertainty, markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, latent semantic indexing, text retrieval. Liu, Hugo MIT Media Laboratory. Philosophically motivated AI, commonsense reasoning, aesthetics and AI, assistive software agents, lexical semantics, story understanding. Liu, Jundong Ohio University. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Medical image analysis, computer vision. Loui, Ronald Washington University in St. Louis. AI and the law, models of negotiation, modeling legal argument. Loveland, Donald W. Duke University. Automated theorem proving, logic programming, knowledge evaluation, expert systems, test-and-treatment problem. Maes, Pattie Associate Professor at MIT's Media Laboratory. Areas of expertise are Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Information Filtering and Electronic Commerce. Makris, Dimitrios City University, London. Research on automatic behaviour modelling for automatic multi-camera visual surveillance systems. Manning, Christopher Stanford University. Probabilistic parsing, grammar induction, text categorization and clustering, electronic dictionaries, information extraction and presentation, and linguistic typology. Mantaras, Ramon Lopez de Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the CSIC. AI and music, qualitative approaches to landmark-based robot navigation. Martin, James University of Colorado, Boulder. Empirical metaphor research, latent semantic analysis, information retrieval, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with Dan Jurafsky. Massa, Paolo Phd student at Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) in Italy. McCarthy, John Programming Languages, mathematical theory of computation, artificial intelligence. Stanford University. McCoy, Kathleen University of Delaware. Rehabilitation engineering, writing tool for American Sign Language, natural language generation, text summarization, graph summarization. McDermott, Drew Extensive work in logic, planning, and robotics, also known for his blunt public appraisals of the state of AI research. Interviewed in Crossroads, the student magazine of the ACM. McGuinness, Deborah Researcher in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Systems. Co-designer and developer of CLASSIC and Chimaera among others. Associate Director of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. McRoy, Susan University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dialog theory, natural language generation, argumentation theory, intelligent tutoring systems. McTear, Mike University of Ulster at Jordanstown. Dialogue modelling, natural language processing, computational linguistics, user modelling. Meila, Marina University of Washington. Machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, graphical probability models, tree belief networks and mixtures of trees, maximum entropy discrimination, spectral clustering and image segmentation. Miller, Tristan German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management Group. Computational linguistics, automatic summarization, information retrieval, latent semantic analysis, computers and society. Mitrovic, Nikola University of Zaragoza. Ph.D. student. Mobile agents, intelligent user interfaces, adaptive user interfaces, mobile applications. ML & CBR Folks A list of home pages for people in machine learning and case-based reasoning. Monz, Christof Research interests: Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Automated Deduction. Site lists on-line publications, projects, activities, and contact info. Moore, Johanna D. University of Edinburgh. Computational modeling of tutorial dialogue, multimedia explanation, integrated techniques for interpretation and generation, patient education. Murray, Arthur T. Aka Mentifex. Author of Mind.Forth and its JavaScript AI tutorial version. Musick, Ron iKuni Inc. Automated induction, machine learning, and scientific data management. Nebel, Bernhard Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. Professor. Knowledge representation, planning, and robotics, with an emphasis on robotic soccer. Norvig, Peter Artificial Intelligence, natural language, Lisp and Java in AI. Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center. Novick, David University of Texas at El Paso. Department of Computer Science Chair. Spoken dialog models, mediated communication, user interface development methodologies. Palmer, Martha University of Pennsylvania. Logic programming, computational lexical semantics, crosslinguistic verb classes, machine translation, multilingual information processing. Panati, Andrea University of Torino, Italy, PhD student in Computer Science, diagnostic reasoning, model-based diagnosis of dynamic systems. Parsons, Lance Arizona State University. Data mining, unsupervised learning, bioinformatics. Pathegama, Mahinda Interests include biologically inspired artificial neural networks for figure ground separation and neural mechanisms for functional changes in the brain due to electromagnetic radiation. Pelikan, Martin Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. Evolutionary computation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Pennock, David M. NEC Research Institute. Electronic commerce, internet statistics, uncertain reasoning, decision theory, market approaches to group coordination, multiagent systems. Peshkin, Leon MIT. Baysian information extraction, reinforcement learning, text summarization. Picard, Rosalind MIT. Affective computing, texture and pattern modeling, video and image browsing, retrieval and annotation. Pizzuti, Stefano ENEA, Italian agency for energy, new technologies and environment. Evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic, neural networks, chaos Theory and their application to energy related problems. Powers, David M. W. Researcher focusing on Unsupervised Learning with particular application to Natural Language and Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Web Search. Head of Flinders University AI Lab. Pratt, Lorien Neural network researcher and telecommunications analyst. Resume, links, personal information. Qu, Yan Carnegie Mellon University. Information retrieval, extraction and management, natural language processing, Chinese computing, dialog and discourse processing, machine translation, cooperative human-computer interaction. Quattoni, Ariadna Mount Holyoke. Synthesizing vision, language, and learning. Natural language interfaces to vision. Raina, Rajat Stanford University. Question answering systems, machine learning, probabilistic models, robotics. Reitter, David Reitter IT&Media, Berlin, Germany and Dublin, Ireland. Part-of-speech tagging, natural language dialog systems, unification-based parsing, discourse representation. Rich, Charles MERL Cambridge Research. Collaborative interface agents, task modeling, COLLAGEN, intelligent tutoring. Roberts, Steve Oxford. Robotics Research Group. Machine learning, Bayesian learning, data-driven inference, signal and image processing, bioinformatics, computational and mathematical biology. Rodriguez, Eliseo Steve Rodriguez The University of Edinburgh. Cognitive science, data-mining, and predictive and adaptive systems. Roweis, Sam University of Toronto. Researcher in pattern recognition, neural networks, artificial intelligence. Rudnicky, Alex Carnegie Mellon University. Speech recognition, CMU Communicator, dialog systems, speech agents. Russell, Stuart Professor at the Computer Science Division of Berkeley University and author (with Peter Norvig) of the famous AI textbook "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach". Saffiotti, Alessandro Head of the mobile robotics lab at Orebro University, Sweden. Research area: integration of cognition and physical embedding in autonomous robots. Sastry, Kumara University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. student. Genetic algorithms, competent GAs and efficiency-enhancement techniques with application in material sciences. Sayan, Ömer Fatih University of Osnabrück. Emotion recognition, emotive behavior, mental models, unconscious processes, rule- and pattern-based mechanisms. Schoppek, Wolfgang University of Bayreuth, Bavaria. Cognitive modeling, ACT-R models, causal induction. Schubert, Johan Research on belief functions, clustering, neural networks, fusion. Defense Research Establishment. Schütze, Hinrich Stanford University. Statistical NLP, text mining, Co-author of "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" with Christopher Manning. Seneff, Stephanie MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Phonological modelling, auditory modelling, computer speech recognition, statistical language modelling, natural language understanding and generation, discourse and dialogue modelling, and prosodic analysis. Sidner, Candace MERL Cambridge Research. Collaborative inteface agents, spoken dialog, COLLAGEN, intelligent tutoring. Simon, Herbert A. Late Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. One of the founders of Artificial Intelligence. Research mainly in modeling and simulation of human cognition. Sinka, Mark University of Reading. Web document clustering and categorization, information Retrieval, XML and search engine optimisation. Smith, Ronnie W. East Carolina University. Spoken natural language dialog systems, dialog repairs, mixed-initiative, adaptive user interfaces. Solorio, Thamar National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico. Machine learning and its applications to natural language processing and astronomy. Staab, Steffen Research topics: semantic web, knowledge management, and natural language processing. List of his publications, projects, courses taught, contact information. Strens, Malcolm QinetiQ. Reinforcement learning and image target tracking. Sure, York University of Karlsruhe. Semantic web, OntoWeb, distributed knowledge, collaborative ontology, knowledge retrieval. Swarup, Samarth Graduate student at the University of Illinois, working on neurobiologically inspired systems and learning in the superior colliculus. Szalas, Andrzej College of Economics and Computer Science, Olsztyn, Poland. Unmanned aerial vehicles. Autonomous systems. Szepesvári, Csaba Mindmaker, Ltd., Budapest. Reinforcement learning, adaptive control, visual tracking (LS-N-IPS), speech processing; on-line publications. Taatgen, Niels University of Groningen. Cognition, ACT-R, learning rules and productions. Tack, Werner H. Universität des Saarlandes. ACT-R cognitive modeling. Teixeira, Otávio Noura Brazil. Artificial Intelligence (in Spanish). Terveen, Loren University of Minnesota. Computer-mediated communication, social data mining, computer-supported cooperative work, recommender system. Teuscher, Christof C.V., list of awards, publications, memberships, projects, and conferences. Interests in neural networks. Thaler, Stephen Researcher into neural networks and creativity. Traum, David R. USC Instititue for Creative Technology. Discourse structure. Grounding in discourse. Dialog and virtual reality agents. Treur, Jan professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Research interests include multi-agent systems, compositional modelling, temporal semantics, common sense and nonmonotonic reasoning. Turney, Peter D. Interactive Information Group, National Research Council, Canada. Machine learning with text, cost-sensitive learning, context-sensitive learning, learning and evolution. van Beek, Peter University of Waterloo. Constraint programming, compiler optimization, and scheduling. van Delden, Sebastian University of Central Florida. Partial parsing, natural language information retrieval systems, learning WordNet-based classification rules. van Schooten, Boris University of Twente. Interaction models in (spoken) dialogue systems, specification techniques and multimodal systems and virtual environments, multiagent virtual environments. Vasishth, Shravan Saarland University. Abductive Inference Model, Hindi sentence processing, wide-coverage theories of sentence processing. Vu, Xuan-Ha PhD student interested in Artificial Intelligence, Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Free SMS. Vu, Xuan-Ha Swiss Federal Institutue of Technology. Research interests include constraint satisfaction. Walker, Marilyn A. AT&T Labs. DARPA Communicator Project, reinforcement learning in spoken dialog systems, language generation, discourse modeling. Wallace, Andrew Alexander The Open University. Robotics, flow control, negotiation. Wang, Alvin California Polytechic State University. Automated target recognition on synthetic radar images. Ward, Karen University of Texas at El Paso. Acknowledgments in human-computer interaction, multimodal interfaces, speech acts. Webber, Carine Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia. User modelling, cognitive models, multi-agent systems, emergence theory. Weerdt, Mathijs de Delft University of Technology. Researcher in multi-agent planning. List of publications. Wilks, Yorick University of Sheffield. Computational pragmatics, belief modeling, lexicons, information extraction. www ) Xu, Ke Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Design and analysis of algorithms, phase transitions, logic programming, data mining. Zhou, Yujian Illinois Institute of Technology. Ph.D. student, Adaptive tutoring, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining. Zhou, Zhi-Hua Nanjing University. Machine learning, neural computing, data mining, pattern recognition and evolutionary computing. Online AI resources. Zillman, Marcus P. Creator/Founder BotSpot.com, CEO BotTechnology.com, Inc. Zimak, Dav PhD student in machine learning, working in the Cognitive Computation Group at University of Illinois. Help build the biggest human edited directory on the internet Add your website - Open Directory Project - Become an editor