Artificial Intelligence: People: Page 2

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Research projects in Ant algorithms, metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization, robot shaping and behavior engineering.

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.

University of Rochester. Natural language understanding, discourse, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning and planning.

Director of the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) at DARPA. Knowledge representation, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing.

ENSEEIHT, France, Computer Science engineer, Artificial Intelligence (dialogue simulation, speech acts, PROLOG), Python, lexical and syntactic parsing.

College of Economics and Computer Science, Olsztyn, Poland. Unmanned aerial vehicles. Autonomous systems.

Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, PhD student, machine learning, natural language processing.

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.

Director of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, EPFL, President of Swiss AI Society. Software agents, constraint-based reasoning, case-based reasoning.

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Design and analysis of algorithms, phase transitions, logic programming, data mining.

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Maryland University, machine learning, data mining.

MIT Media Laboratory. Philosophically motivated AI, commonsense reasoning, aesthetics and AI, assistive software agents, lexical semantics, story understanding.

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.

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.

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. Professor. Knowledge representation, planning, and robotics, with an emphasis on robotic soccer.

Duke University. Chair, Department of Computer Science. AAAI Fellow. Computational linguistics, automatic programming and inference, Author of Great Ideas in Computer Science.

Tufts University. Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces, virtual environments, eye-gaze tracking.

University of Liverpool. Computational models of natural argument, affective natural language generation, conflict resolution.

Northwestern University. Qualitative physics, spatial reasoning, cognitive simulation of analogical processing.

University of Delaware. Department of Computer and Information Sciences Chair. Computational linguistics, dialog systems, machine learning, planning and plan recognition, medical informatics, user modeling.

Duke University. Automated theorem proving, logic programming, knowledge evaluation, expert systems, test-and-treatment problem.

Washington University in St. Louis. AI and the law, models of negotiation, modeling legal argument.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dialog theory, natural language generation, argumentation theory, intelligent tutoring systems.

MERL Cambridge Research. Collaborative inteface agents, spoken dialog, COLLAGEN, intelligent tutoring.

MERL Cambridge Research. Collaborative interface agents, task modeling, COLLAGEN, intelligent tutoring.