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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.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eairoldi/

Airoldi, Edoardo

Princeton University. Statistical (Bayesian) elements of graph theory. Data analysis of complex and dynamic networks in the social and biological sciences. Overview of publications and activities.

http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/~eairoldi/

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

www.graand.com

Alkhalifa, Eshaa

University of Bahrain. Multimedia adaptable intelligent tutoring systems, student modeling, cognitive style.

http://www.silvertair.com

Allen, James F.

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

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/users/faculty/james/

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.

http://altman.casimirinstitute.net/

Angele, Jürgen

Ontoprise. Knowledge engineering, domain and task modeling, ontologies, KARL, MIKE, web portals.

http://www.ontoprise.de/members/angele/publications.htm

Bacchus, Fahiem

University of Toronto. Planning systems, temporal logic, constraint satisfaction problems and formal models.

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fbacchus/

Bahlmann, Claus

Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, On-line handwriting recognition.

http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/bahlmann/index.en.html

Beal, Matthew J.

University at Buffalo, SUNY. Nonparamtric Bayes, bioinformatics, HMMs, probablisitic sensor fusion.

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/mbeal

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.

http://csis.pace.edu/~benjamin/

Biermann, Alan W.

Duke University. Computational linguistics, automatic programming and inference.

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~awb

Blum, Avrim

Carnegie Mellon University. Interests include machine learning, approximation algorithms, on-line algorithms and planning systems. Online publications and talks.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/

Brachman, Ron

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

http://www.brachman.org/

Branting, L. Karl

LiveWire Logic, Inc. Empirical methods of natural language processing, case-based reasoning, AI and law, ecological and environmental applications of AI.

http://www.karlbranting.net

Bunt, Andrea

University of British Columbia. User modeling, adaptive interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bunt/

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.

http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/

Carpenter, Julie

University of Washington (Educational Psychology/Learning Sciences/LIFE Center). Human-robot attachment; robot-human interaction in stressful conditions, especially in dyad teamwork or collaborative situations.

http://www.jgcarpenter.com/

Carreras, Xavier

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

http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~carreras/

Carroll, John A.

University of Sussex. Natural language parsing, acquisition of lexical information from text, automatic generation of text from semantic representations.

http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/carroll/

Cassell, Justine

MIT Media Lab. Gesture and narrative language, animated agents, intonation, facial expression, computer vision.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~justine/

Cer, Daniel

University of Colorado - Boulder. Acoustic and lexical features of emphatic speech.

http://cer.freeshell.org

Chachra, Sumit

University of Arizona. Document analysis, biometrics, image retrieval, autonomic computing.

http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~chachra

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.

http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/ec/

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.

http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~gcamarac

Chiang, Yao-Yi

Geosemble Technologies. Computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, geospatial information integration.

http://www.yoyoi.info

Clancey, William J.

NASA/Ames Research Center. Brahms multiagent simulation system, situated cognition, Haughton-Mars Project, human-centered computing.

http://homepage.mac.com/WJClancey/~WJClancey/

Clough, Paul D.

University of Sheffield. Information retrieval.

http://ir.shef.ac.uk/cloughie/index.html

Conati, Cristina

University of British Columbia. User modeling, emotionally intelligent agents, adaptive user interfaces, Bayesian network student models.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~conati/

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.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/

Cortes, Nareli Cruz

CINVESTAV-IPN. Artificial immune system optimization, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation.

http://computacion.cs.cinvestav.mx/~nareli

Danescu, Radu

Technical University of Cluj. Image processing, stereovision, intelligent vehicles.

http://users.utcluj.ro/~rdanescu

Delord, Christophe

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

http://christophe.delord.free.fr

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.

http://www.cs.uic.edu/~bdieugen/

Dorigo, Marco

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

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/

Dorst, Leo

University of Amsterdam. Applications of geometric (Clifford) algebra, exploration, reasoning with uncertainty in robotics.

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~leo/

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.

http://www2.mta.ac.il/~gideon/

Dyke, James

University of Sussex. Daisyworld, gaia, mep, artificial life, theoretical biology, robotics and evolutionary theory.

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/jgd20/

Elliott, Clark

DePaul University. Affective reasoning, synthetic characters, animated tutoring agents, emotion representation.

http://condor.depaul.edu/~elliott/

Faltings, Boi

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

http://liawww.epfl.ch/~faltings

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.

http://www.aidanf.net

Forbus, Kenneth

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

http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~forbus/index.html

Fournier-Viger, Philippe

University of Quebec at Montreal. Learning objects, cognitive modelling, virtual learning environments and intelligent tutoring systems.

http://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com

Frasconi, Paolo

Università di Firenze. Machine learning for sequential and structured data, bioinformatics, text and natural language, pattern recognition.

http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo

Freeman, Richard

University of Manchester. Machine learning, knowledge management, data visualization, artificial intelligence and neural networks.

http://www.rfreeman.net

Funge, John

iKuni, Inc. Game AI, machine learning, and knowledge representation.

http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~funge/

Furcy, David

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Heuristic search, planning and re-planning, reinforcement learning.

http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/furcyd/

Galassi, Ugo

University of Eastern Piedmont. User profiling, hierarchical HMMs, learning regular expressions.

http://www.ugogalassi.net

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.

http://www.brain.riken.jp/labs/mns/geczy/

Gini, Maria

University of Minnesota. Distributed intelligence, cooperation of miniature robots, robot navigation, multi-agent systems for e-commerce and supply-chain, economic agents.

http://www.cs.umn.edu/~gini

Goel, Ashok K.

Georgia Tech. Knowledge-based reasoning and learning, design cognition and computing, creativity, self-adaptation.

http://home.cc.gatech.edu/dil/3

Goyal, Ram Dayal

Intigma India. Data mining, natural language processing, data mining, neural networks, image processing.

http://www.rdgoyal.freehomepage.com

Grasso, Floriana

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

http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/

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.

http://www.uncg.edu/~nlgreen/

Grosz, Barbara

Harvard University. Collaborative planning, SharedPlans model of collaboration, discourse structure, intonation, centering.

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/

Guinn, Curry I.

University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Natural language processing, spoken dialog systems, conversational agents, affective computing.

http://people.uncw.edu/guinnc

Guvenir, H. Altay

Bilkent University. Machine learning, data mining, and computer-aided language learning.

http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~guvenir

Haller, Susan

University of Wisconsin - Park. Natural language processing, interactive discourse, text planning, intelligent tutoring systems.

http://cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller/

Harmelen, Frank van

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Approximate reasoning, medical protocols, semantic web, specification languages for KBS.

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/

Harper, Mary

Purdue University. National Science Foundation. Integrating natural language and speech processing, prosodic analysis, statistical parsing, gesture and speech.

http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~harper/

Hayes-Roth, Barbara

Stanford University. Extempo Systems. Intelligent interactive characters, interactive story telling, adaptive intelligent agents.

http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/people/bhr/

Hearst, Marti

University of California at Berkeley. Data mining, information retrieval, user interfaces, web search.

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/

Honavar, Vasant

Iowa State University. Machine learning, intelligent agents, information integration, probabilistic models, and bioinformatics and computational biology.

http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/

Hoos, Holger H.

University of British Columbia. Preference elicitation, dynamic constraint optimization, satisfiability problems in propositional logic, computational musicology.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos

Horvitz, Eric

Microsoft Research. Decision theory, reasoning systems, user modeling, reasoning under uncertainty.

http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/

Hotho, Andreas

University of Karlsruhe, AIFB. Text, data and web mining especially in text clustering, semantic web mining, knowledge management.

http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/aho/

Jacob, Christian

University of Calgary. Emergent computing in biological networks, collective intelligence, swarm intelligence, genetic algorihms, genome programming.

http://www2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jacob/

Jacob, Rob

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

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jacob/

Jacobs, Paul

Jake Technologies. Natural language processing, research, consulting and entrepreneurship.

http://www.jaketech.com/pages/4/index.htm

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.

http://www.colorado.edu/ling/jurafsky/

Kadri, Faisal

Affective computing, computational models of human emotion.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/flkadri/Index.html

Kamali, Mahsa

Amirkabir University of Technology. Facial image analysis and synthesis, gesture recognition, emotion modeling.

http://www.geocities.com/mahsa_kamali/

Kamovich, Aliaksander

Minsk, Belarus. Automatic image stitching, target tracking, ICA and PCA compression

http://kamovich.googlepages.com/

Katirai, Hooman

MIT. Machine learning applied to medicine, text management, and computational linguistics.

http://www.mit.edu/~hooman/

Ketter, Wolfgang

University of Minnesota. Computer science and economics, multiagent systems, automated negotiation and contracting.

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~ketter/

Koduru, Praveen

Memetic algorithms for multiobjective optimization.

http://www.pkoduru.com

Koenig, Sven

University of Southern California. Decision making, situated agents, distributed agents.

http://idm-lab.org/

Konieczny, Lars

Institute of Computer Science and Social Research. Psycholinguistics, sentence comprehension, cognitive parsing, ACT-R.

http://cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de/team/members/konieczny/konieczny.htm

Krogt, Roman van der

Post-doctoral researcher at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C). Working on multiagent planning methods as well as scheduling for manufacturing.

http://roman.vanderkrogt.org/

Kurban, Rifat

Erciyes University. Artificial neural networks, speech processing, digital signal processing, speaker recognition, image processing.

http://www.rifatkurban.name.tr

Lambert, Lynn

Christopher Newport University. Natural language processing, planning and plan recognition, belief models, negotiation.

http://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~lambert/

Lavoie, Benoit

University of Quebec at Montreal. Intelligent tutoring systems, semantic web, question-answer systems, translation, natural language generation.

http://www.benoit-lavoie.ca

Léauté, Thomas

European Space Agency. Agile systems, temporal planning.

http://homepage.mac.com/thomas.leaute/index.html

Lester, James

North Carolina State University. Intellimedia initiative, animated pedagogical agents, 3D learning environments, natural language generation.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lester/imedia/james.html

Lin, Fan

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

http://www.lfan.net/

Lisetti, Christine

Florida International University. Emotional intelligence, computational models of emotions and affective processes, affective computing.

http://www.cis.fiu.edu/~lisetti/

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.

http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~litman/

Littman, Michael

Rutgers. Planning under uncertainty, markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, latent semantic indexing, text retrieval.

http://athos.rutgers.edu/~mlittman/

Liu, Hugo

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

http://larifari.org/

Liu, Jundong

Ohio University. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Medical image analysis, computer vision.

http://ace.cs.ohiou.edu/~liu

Loui, Ronald

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

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~loui/

Makris, Dimitrios

Kingston University. Senior lecturer and member of the Digital Imaging Research Centre. Research in 3D pose recovery, motion analysis and multi-camera tracking.

http://staffnet.kingston.ac.uk/~ku32195/

Manning, Christopher

Stanford University. Probabilistic parsing, grammar induction, text categorization and clustering, electronic dictionaries, information extraction and presentation, and linguistic typology.

http://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/

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.

http://www.iiia.csic.es/~mantaras

Martin, James

University of Colorado, Boulder. Empirical metaphor research, latent semantic analysis, information retrieval, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with Dan Jurafsky.

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/

Massa, Paolo

Phd student at Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) in Italy.

http://sra.itc.it/people/massa/index.html

McCoy, Kathleen

University of Delaware. Rehabilitation engineering, writing tool for American Sign Language, natural language generation, text summarization, graph summarization.

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mccoy/

McDermott, Drew

Includes 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.

http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-1/interview.html

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.

http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/

McRoy, Susan

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

http://www.cs.uwm.edu/faculty/mcroy/

McTear, Mike

University of Ulster at Jordanstown. Dialogue modelling, natural language processing, computational linguistics, user modelling.

http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~cbdg23/

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.

http://www.stat.washington.edu/mmp/

Miller, Tristan

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management Group. Computational linguistics, automatic summarization, information retrieval, latent semantic analysis, computers and society.

http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~miller/

Mitrovic, Nikola

University of Zaragoza. Ph.D. student. Mobile agents, intelligent user interfaces, adaptive user interfaces, mobile applications.

http://www.cps.unizar.es/~mitrovic

Monz, Christof

Research interests: Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Automated Deduction. Site lists on-line publications, projects, activities, and contact info.

http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~christof/

Moore, Johanna D.

University of Edinburgh. Computational modeling of tutorial dialogue, multimedia explanation, integrated techniques for interpretation and generation, patient education.

http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~jmoore/

Musick, Ron

iKuni Inc. Automated induction, machine learning, and scientific data management.

http://home.comcast.net/~crmusick/

Nebel, Bernhard

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

http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~nebel/

Norvig, Peter

Artificial Intelligence, natural language, Lisp and Java in AI. Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center.

http://www.norvig.com

Novick, David

University of Texas at El Paso. Department of Computer Science Chair. Spoken dialog models, mediated communication, user interface development methodologies.

http://www.cs.utep.edu/novick/

Olier, Ivan

Technical University of Catalonia. Unsupervised learning, probabilistic neural network, data mining.

http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~iaolier/

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.

http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~pelikan/

Pellier, Damien

CRIP5 - Paris 5 Laboratory. Multi-agent systems, planning and scheduling, distributed problem solving, cooperative robotics.

http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~pellier/

Pennock, David M.

Yahoo! Research Labs. Electronic commerce, internet statistics, uncertain reasoning, decision theory, market approaches to group coordination, multiagent systems.

http://dpennock.com/

Peshkin, Leon

Harvard Medical School. Systems Biology. Baysian information extraction, reinforcement learning, text summarization.

http://www.csail.mit.edu/~pesha

Picard, Rosalind

MIT. Affective computing, texture and pattern modeling, video and image browsing, retrieval and annotation.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~picard/

Pietruszkiewicz, Wieslaw

Szczecin Technical University (Poland). Machine learning and knowledge (data) mining, optimal (kalman) filtering, expert and decision support systems.

http://www.pietruszkiewicz.com

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.

http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/pp/

Pizzuti, Stefano

ENEA. Evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logic based systems, evolutionary neural networks. Application to financial and energy industrial problems.

http://home.tele2.it/stefanopizzuti/

Planes, Jordi

Escola Universitària Politècnica. Max-SAT, smart cards.

http://fermat.eps.udl.es/~jordi/

Popple, James

Australian National University. Legal expert systems.

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~James.Popple/

Powers, David

The Flinders University of South Australia. Natural language learning, unsupervised learning, data mining, home automation, web search.

http://members.dodo.com.au/~powers/

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.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yqu/

Raina, Rajat

Stanford University. Question answering systems, machine learning, probabilistic models, robotics.

http://www.stanford.edu/~rajatr

Reitter, David

University of Edinburgh. Multimodal systems, natural language generation, structural priming/alignment in dialogue, rhetorical analysis.

http://www.david-reitter.com/compling/

Riazanov, Alexandre

Computer Scientist and Software Developer. Research interests: Automated Reasoning, Theorem Prover Vampire, Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing.

http://www.freewebs.com/riazanov/

Roberts, Steve

Oxford. Robotics Research Group. Machine learning, Bayesian learning, data-driven inference, signal and image processing, bioinformatics, computational and mathematical biology.

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~sjrob

Robu, Valentin

Dutch Center for Computer Science. Agents and virtual markets, automated negotiation and auctions, machine learning in stock market prediction.

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~robu/

Roweis, Sam

University of Toronto. Researcher in pattern recognition, neural networks, artificial intelligence.

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~roweis/

Rudnicky, Alex

Carnegie Mellon University. Speech recognition, CMU Communicator, dialog systems, speech agents.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/air/WWW/HomePage.html

Saffiotti, Alessandro

Head of the mobile robotics lab at Orebro University, Sweden. Research area: integration of cognition and physical embedding in autonomous robots.

http://aass.oru.se/~asaffio

Sastry, Kumara

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. student. Genetic algorithms, competent GAs and efficiency-enhancement techniques with application in material sciences.

http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/

Sayan, Ömer Fatih

University of Osnabrück. Emotion recognition, emotive behavior, mental models, unconscious processes, rule- and pattern-based mechanisms.

http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~osayan/

Schoppek, Wolfgang

University of Bayreuth, Bavaria. Cognitive modeling, ACT-R models, causal induction.

http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/psychologie/schoppek/

Schubert, Johan

Research on belief functions, clustering, neural networks, fusion. Defense Research Establishment.

http://www.foa.se/fusion/

Schütze, Hinrich

Stanford University. Statistical NLP, text mining, Co-author of "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" with Christopher Manning.

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~schuetze/index.html

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.

http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/people/seneff.shtml

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.

http://www.psy.cmu.edu/psy/faculty/hsimon/hsimon.html

Smith, Ronnie W.

East Carolina University. Spoken natural language dialog systems, dialog repairs, mixed-initiative, adaptive user interfaces.

http://www.cs.ecu.edu/~rws/

Staab, Steffen

Research topics: semantic web, knowledge management, and natural language processing. List of his publications, projects, courses taught, contact information.

http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~staab/

Strens, Malcolm

QinetiQ. Reinforcement learning and image target tracking.

http://strens.com

Sure, York

University of Karlsruhe. Semantic web, OntoWeb, distributed knowledge, collaborative ontology, knowledge retrieval.

http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu/

Swarup, Samarth

University of Illinois. Cumulative (lifelong, multi-task) learning and evolution of language.

http://www.uiuc.edu/~swarup

Szalas, Andrzej

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

http://www.ida.liu.se/~andsz/

Taatgen, Niels

University of Groningen. Cognition, ACT-R, learning rules and productions.

http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels/

Tack, Werner H.

Universität des Saarlandes. ACT-R cognitive modeling.

http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak5/cmm/tack.htm

Tagliarini, Gene

University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Classification of sonar returns, fingerprint matching, image compression, and constraint satisfaction.

http://people.uncw.edu/tagliarinig/home.htm

Terveen, Loren

University of Minnesota. Computer-mediated communication, social data mining, computer-supported cooperative work, recommender system.

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~terveen/

Teuscher, Christof

C.V., list of awards, publications, memberships, projects, and conferences. Interests in neural networks.

http://www.teuscher.ch/christof

Thaler, Stephen

Researcher into neural networks and creativity.

http://www.imagination-engines.com/thaler.htm

Traum, David R.

USC Instititue for Creative Technology. Discourse structure. Grounding in discourse. Dialog and virtual reality agents.

http://www.ict.usc.edu/~traum/

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.

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~treur/

Tunstall-Pedoe, William

Cambridge, England. Cryptic crossword solving; anagrams; search; computer chess; knowledge representation.

http://www.williamtp.com/

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.

http://www.apperceptual.com/

van Beek, Peter

University of Waterloo. Constraint programming, compiler optimization, and scheduling.

http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/~vanbeek/

van Delden, Sebastian

University of Central Florida. Partial parsing, natural language information retrieval systems, learning WordNet-based classification rules.

http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~sdelden

van Schooten, Boris

University of Twente. Interaction models in (spoken) dialogue systems, specification techniques and multimodal systems and virtual environments, multiagent virtual environments.

http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schooten/

Vasishth, Shravan

University of Potsdam. Abductive Inference Model, Hindi sentence processing, wide-coverage theories of sentence processing.

http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/

Visser, Ubbo

TZI, University of Bremen. Knowledge representation and processing for the Semantic Web and multiagent systems in dynamic and real time environments.

http://www.tzi.de/~visser/

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.

http://4c.ucc.ie/~xuanha/

Vyas, Amrish

University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Intelligent agents in eBusiness, adaptive agents.

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~amrish1/home.htm

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.

http://www.dfki.de/~wahlster/

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.

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~walker/

Ward, Karen

University of Texas at El Paso. Acknowledgments in human-computer interaction, multimodal interfaces, speech acts.

http://www.cs.utep.edu/kward/

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.

http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~mathijs

Wilks, Yorick

University of Sheffield. Computational pragmatics, belief modeling, lexicons, information extraction.

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick/

Xu, Ke

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

http://www.nlsde.buaa.edu.cn/~kexu

Zhou, Yujian

Illinois Institute of Technology. Ph.D. student, Adaptive tutoring, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining.

http://www.iit.edu/~zhouyuj/

Zhuang, Rick

Pennsylvania State University. Web information retrival, web usage mining, search engines, semantic web.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/z/x/zxz127/

Zillman, Marcus P.

Creator/Founder BotSpot.com, Executive Director Virtual Private Library

http://www.zillman.us

Zytnicki, Matthias

INRA Toulouse. Bioinformatics, weighted constraint satisfaction problems, non-coding RNAs.

http://www.inra.fr/internet/Departements/MIA/T/zytnicki/

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