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| Airoldi, Edoardo: Carnegie Mellon. Euclidean, differential or algebraic geometrical intuitions underlying statistical models and algorithms. Discrete mathematics and sequential models. Applications to textual data, biological sequences, communication networks and privacy. | | Alam, Shah Jamal: German Research Center for AI (DFKI). Intelligent tutoring systems, social organizations in MAS, family (Eastern) dynamics. | | Alkhalifa, Eshaa: University of Bahrain. Multimedia adaptable intelligent tutoring systems, student modeling, cognitive style. | | Allen, James F.: University of Rochester. Natural language understanding, discourse, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning and planning. | | Altman, Christopher: Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology. Advanced research and development inititiates at the confluence of quantum mechanics and information science: superconducting quantum computing, superposed adaptive quantum networks. | | 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. | | Beal, Matthew J.: University at Buffalo, SUNY. Nonparamtric Bayes, bioinformatics, HMMs, probablisitic sensor fusion. | | 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. Computational linguistics, automatic programming and inference. | | 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. | | Carpenter, Julie: University of Washington. Relationship between social software/interfaces and human attitudes and behaviors; user responses to emotion in embodied agents. | | Carreras, Xavier: Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, PhD student, machine learning, natural language processing. | | Carroll, John A.: University of Sussex. Natural language parsing, acquisition of lexical information from text, automatic generation of text from semantic representations. | | Cassell, Justine: MIT Media Lab. Gesture and narrative language, animated agents, intonation, facial expression, computer vision. | | Cer, Daniel: University of Colorado - Boulder. Acoustic and lexical features of emphatic speech. | | 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. | | Chiang, Yao-Yi: Geosemble Technologies. Computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, geospatial information integration. | | 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. | | Danescu, Radu: Technical University of Cluj. Image processing, stereovision, intelligent vehicles. | | de Salvo Braz, Rodrigo: University of Illinois. First-order probabilistic inference, text entailing, human-computer interaction. | | 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. | | Dror, Gideon: Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo. Text categorization, machine learning applications in bioinformatics, medicine, machine vision and high energy physics, feature selection for categorization and regression problems, artificial neural networks. | | Dyke, James: University of Sussex. Daisyworld, gaia, mep, artificial life, theoretical biology, robotics and evolutionary theory. | | 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: School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin. Automated information extraction using convergent boundary classification, machine learning for automatic genre classification, active learning for information extraction. | | Forbus, Kenneth: Northwestern University. Qualitative physics, spatial reasoning, cognitive simulation of analogical processing. | | Fournier-Viger, Philippe: University of Quebec at Montreal. Learning objects, cognitive modelling, virtual learning environments and intelligent tutoring systems. | | 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. | | Funge, John: iKuni, Inc. Game AI, machine learning, and knowledge representation. | | Furcy, David: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Heuristic search, planning and re-planning, reinforcement learning. | | Galassi, Ugo: University of Eastern Piedmont. User profiling, hierarchical HMMs, learning regular expressions. | | 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. | | Goel, Ashok K.: Georgia Tech. Knowledge-based reasoning and learning, design cognition and computing, creativity, self-adaptation. | | 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.: University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Natural language processing, spoken dialog systems, 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. | | Ho, Shum Wing: Chinese University of Hong Kong. Research interests are Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Intelligence. | | Honavar, Vasant: Iowa State University. Machine learning, intelligent agents, information integration, probabilistic models, and bioinformatics and computational biology. | | 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. | | 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. | | Jacobs, Paul: Jake Technologies. Natural language processing, research, consulting and entrepreneurship. | | 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. | | Kadri, Faisal: Affective computing, computational models of human emotion. | | Kamali, Mahsa: Amirkabir University of Technology. Facial image analysis and synthesis, gesture recognition, emotion modeling. | | Kamovich, Aliaksander: Minsk, Belarus. Automatic image stitching, target tracking, ICA and PCA compression | | 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. | | Ketter, Wolfgang: University of Minnesota. Computer science and economics, multiagent systems, automated negotiation and contracting. | | Kochenderfer, Mykel J.: University of Edinburgh. Autonomous agents, reinforcement learning, teleo-reactive behavior. | | Koduru, Praveen: Memetic algorithms for multiobjective optimization. | | Koenig, Sven: University of Southern California. Decision making, situated agents, distributed agents. | | 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. | | Lavoie, Benoit: University of Quebec at Montreal. Intelligent tutoring systems, semantic web, question-answer systems, translation, natural language generation. | | Léauté, Thomas: European Space Agency. Agile systems, temporal planning. | | Legierski, Wojciech: Silesian University of Technology. Constraint programming, scheduling, combinatorial optimization. | | 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. Ph.D. student. | | 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: Kingston University. Research on automatic behaviour modelling for multi-camera visual surveillance systems. | | Mamani-Sanchez, Liliana P.: Instituto Militar de Engenharia - Brasil. Natural language processing, ontologies, semantic web, web-based distance learning. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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 a theory of mind, proof-of-concept software and the book "AI4U". | | 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. | | Olier, Ivan: Technical University of Catalonia. Unsupervised learning, probabilistic neural network, data mining. | | Pan, Jeffrey Junfeng: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Data mining, machine learning, optimization, mobile computing and information retrieval. | | Parsons, Lance: Arizona State University. Data mining, unsupervised learning, bioinformatics. | | Paszke, Łukasz: Instytute of Hydro-Engineering PAS, Gdańsk, Poland. Application of artificial intelligence in the prediction of waves and water levels. | | Pelikan, Martin: Director of the Missouri Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Laboratory (MEDAL), University of Missouri in St. Louis. Research interests: Evolutionary computation, Bayesian networks, machine learning. | | Pellier, Damien: CRIP5 - Paris 5 Laboratory. Multi-agent systems, planning and scheduling, distributed problem solving, cooperative robotics. | | Pennock, David M.: Yahoo! Research Labs. Electronic commerce, internet statistics, uncertain reasoning, decision theory, market approaches to group coordination, multiagent systems. | | Peshkin, Leon: Harvard Medical School. Systems Biology. Baysian information extraction, reinforcement learning, text summarization. | | Picard, Rosalind: MIT. Affective computing, texture and pattern modeling, video and image browsing, retrieval and annotation. | | Pietruszkiewicz, Wieslaw: Szczecin Technical University (Poland). Machine learning and knowledge (data) mining, optimal (kalman) filtering, expert and decision support systems. | | Pinheiro da Silva, Paulo: Stanford University. Explanations for semantic web tasks, semantic web tools and infrastructure, model-based user interfaces, formal specification and verification of interactive systems. | | Pizzuti, Stefano: ENEA. Evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logic based systems, evolutionary neural networks. Application to financial and energy industrial problems. | | Planes, Jordi: Escola Universitària Politècnica. Max-SAT, smart cards. | | Popple, James: Australian National University. Legal expert systems. | | Powers, David: The Flinders University of South Australia. Natural language learning, unsupervised learning, data mining, home automation, web search. | | 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: University of Edinburgh. Multimodal systems, natural language generation, structural priming/alignment in dialogue, rhetorical analysis. | | Riazanov, Alexandre: North Side Inc. Computer assisted reasoning, automated theorem proving, term indexing. | | 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. | | Robertson, Neil: Oxford University. Computer vision, visual surveillance, video annotation. | | Robu, Valentin: Dutch Center for Computer Science. Agents and virtual markets, automated negotiation & auctions, machine learning in stock market prediction. | | 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. | | 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. | | Schütze, Hinrich: Stanford University. Statistical NLP, text mining, Co-author of "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" with Christopher Manning. | | 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. | | 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. | | Siekmann, Jörg: Universität des Saarlandes. Automated reasoning, proof planning, multiagent architectures, e-learning for mathematics. | | 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: University of Illinois. Cumulative (lifelong, multi-task) learning and evolution of language. | | Szalas, Andrzej: College of Economics and Computer Science, Olsztyn, Poland. Unmanned aerial vehicles. Autonomous systems. | | Taatgen, Niels: University of Groningen. Cognition, ACT-R, learning rules and productions. | | Tack, Werner H.: Universität des Saarlandes. ACT-R cognitive modeling. | | Tagliarini, Gene: University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Classification of sonar returns, fingerprint matching, image compression, and constraint satisfaction. | | 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. | | Tran, Nam: Arizona State University. Knowledge representation, hypothesis generation, causal modelling in AI, bioinformatics. | | 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. | | Tunstall-Pedoe, William: Cambridge, England. Cryptic crossword solving; anagrams; search; computer chess; knowledge representation. | | Turney, Peter D.: Interactive Information Group, National Research Council of Canada. Machine learning applied to natural language processing, lexical semantics from web mining, artificial life. | | 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: University of Potsdam. Abductive Inference Model, Hindi sentence processing, wide-coverage theories of sentence processing. | | Visser, Ubbo: TZI, University of Bremen. Knowledge representation and processing for the Semantic Web and multiagent systems in dynamic and real time environments. | | Vu, Xuan-Ha: Has a degree from Swiss Federal Institutue of Technology, but now holds a postdoc position at Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland. Research interests include constraint satisfaction. | | Vyas, Amrish: University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Intelligent agents in eBusiness, adaptive agents. | | Wahlster, Wolfgang: Universität des Saarlandes. Multimodal and perceptive user interfaces, user modeling, ambient intelligence, embodied conversational agents, smart navigation systems, semantic web services, and resource-adaptive cognitive technologies, VERMOBIL. | | Walker, Marilyn A.: University of Sheffield. Natural language processing, specifically in spoken dialogue systems, machine learning in dialogue, spoken language generation, multimodal human-computer interaction, and evaluation of dialogue systems. | | Wallace, Andrew Alexander: The Open University. Robotics, flow control, negotiation. | | Ward, Karen: University of Texas at El Paso. Acknowledgments in human-computer interaction, multimodal interfaces, speech acts. | | Weerdt, Mathijs de: Researcher in multi-agent planning at Delft University of Technology. Tutorial on multi-agent planning, list of own publications and publications related to distributed AI. | | Wilks, Yorick: University of Sheffield. Computational pragmatics, belief modeling, lexicons, information extraction. | | 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. | | Zhuang, Rick: Pennsylvania State University. Web information retrival, web usage mining, search engines, semantic web. | | Zillman, Marcus P.: Creator/Founder BotSpot.com, Executive Director Virtual Private Library | | Zytnicki, Matthias: INRA Toulouse. Bioinformatics, weighted constraint satisfaction problems, non-coding RNAs. |
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