Artificial Intelligence, 9/2000

OVERVIEW

Professors

Tuomas W. Sandholm

multiagent systems, optimization,
electronic commerce
NSF Career Award Winner
(FINLAND)
(on leave Fall 00)

William D. Smart

robotics, learning,
POMDPs
(arriving Fall 00)

Weixiong Zhang

search, multiagent systems,
computational biology

Permanent Senior Research Associates

Dr. Barry L. Kalman

recurrent neural networks,
medical applications

Dr. Stan C. Kwasny

natural language processing,
neural networks

Visiting Senior Research Associate and Visiting Professors

Dr. Sviatoslav Brainov

multiagent systems,
distributed ai

(BULGARIA)

Prof. Dov Monderer

Prof. of IE & Management, Technion,
multiagent systems
(ISRAEL)

OVERVIEW

NEWS FOR THE SPRING

In the Fall we will be joined by Robert Pless, a vision and graphics researcher from John Aloimonos's group at Maryland, and by Bill Smart, who currently runs robots down corridors at Brown. If things work out as planned (there are more offers being made!) we will be AI-central for the next decade...

Dr. Tohme arrives this July with Claudio Delrieux from Argentina. Sadly, Andy Clark will be leaving the PNP program and returning to the UK where he will be at Essex with our friend Frisch.

Dr. Brainov will be the next AI professor at SUNY Buffalo, joining our friends Shapiro and Rapaport. It was fun of course to introduce Dr. Brainov to Dr. Smart.

High school negotiation researcher Joe Badino is off to Harvard next year. Undergraduate AI-insiders Dan Blandford, Joe Altepeter, and Jessica Linsday are going places, too. Dan is off to CMU CS, Joe has an NSF Fellowship in physics and will spend the year in Australia. Jessica starts law school at Missouri-Columbia.

Kate Larson has another publication (yawn).

Enrollments for the ecommerce class are full, and after opening a second section of CS313, we are still full (at 84 registrations). We are planning to accomodate everyone interested. Matt Cosner and Phil Kirschner will be TAs.

Michael Brent is building a research group quickly. If you are interested in natural language or gene mapping, contact him! Phil Kirschner is his webmaster. Paul Flicek says there are two interdisciplinary postdocs in the group, and Angela Pelch knows the other staff moves.

Sally Goldman is on the program committees of STOC 00 and FOCS 00. Her papers will appearing JCSS, J. of Algorithms, and Machine Learning.

Dov Monderer and Sviatoslav Brainov are now fixtures in the department, but Prof. Monderer will return in July to Israel and Dr. Brainov will be starting a new faculty position.

Sandholm has founded his second company, complete with venture capital. He has signed a contract with MIT Press to write the book Automated Negotiation. His media appearances this year include Business Week, Tages Anzeiger, and Science Daily. He will give a tutorial on Electronic Markets in July in Austin (this year, tutorials were in Lausanne, Utrecht, Stockholm, Orlando, and Seattle).

Sandholm gave a demo of eMediator: A Next Generation Electronic Commerce Server at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Intelligent Systems Demonstration Program, Orlando, FL, July. His papers appeared in 199 conferences: IJCAI, AAAI (three), ICDCS, AGENTS. His newes co-authors are Sandeep Sikka and Samphel Norden.

Loui is on the program committee for IASTED 2000, ECAI Computational Dialectic Workshop 2000, and ICAIL 2001. The big news is that ICAIL 2001 will be held in St. Louis. We are hoping to attract someone like Richard Posner to speak in the rotunda of the Old Court House.

Kate Larson had her second journal article appear with Sandolm in AI Journal. Tohme and Sandholm appeared in J. of Logic and Computation.

Chesnevar, Maguitman and Loui's survey on logic of argument, which is a popular download will appear in Computing Surveys. Loui has completed reviews for Journal of Symbolic Logic, AI and Law, and AI Journal.

Doctoral Students


Kate Larson Memorial University, Newfoundland, B.Sc., Mathematics (CANADA)	Andy Martignoni III SIUE, B.A., Computer Science	Dan Dooley SIUE, M.A., Mathematics	Yan Zhou Jiaotong U, Shanghai B.E. Fluid Engineering (CHINA)

Recent Visiting or Related Doctoral Students

Vincent Ferrandon
ENSAE
Ecole Nationale Supérieure
de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace,
Tolouse,
M.S., Automatique et Mécanique du Vol
(FRANCE)

Past Visitors

Prof. Gerda Kamberova (BULGARIA), now Asst. Prof. at Hofstra Univ.,

multicamera reconstruction of 3d images

Visiting facultuy, 1998.

Prof. Fernando A. Tohme, Assoc. Prof. of Economics, U. Nac. del Sur, (ARGENTINA)

rationality and organizations in economics

Regular Visiting Faculty.

Nir Vulkan, Ph.D., Dept. of Economics, U. Bristol (UK/ISRAEL) Electronic commerce.

Visiting for two weeks in 1998.

Jeffrey S. Norman, J.D., Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago. Formerly Wash. U. Law Review editor and CS undergraduate.

AI and law.

Visiting twice a year since 1992.

H. Bart Verheij, Ph.D., Department of Metajuridica, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University (NETHERLANDS).

Formal models of argumentation.

Visited 6-9/96.

Gerard A. W. Vreeswijk, Ph.D., Nationale-Nederlanden (NETHERLANDS).

Formal protocols.

Visited 11-12/96.

Prof. Sahnny Johnson, Chair of Computer Science, Knox College.

Neural Nets.

Visiting Summers regularly.

Prof. Steven Kwek, UIUC (NCSA) / Visiting Prof. at Case Western Reserve.

Machine learning.

Visited 10/96-6/97.

Former Faculty

Emeritus Prof. William E. Ball, founder of the Center for Intelligent Computing, Systems

Dr. Michael Kahn, M.D., Former head of Medical Informatics

Steve Cousins, former lecturer

Collaborators

Dr. William W. R. Reinus, M.D., Assoc. Prof. of Radiology

Prof. Ervin Y. Rodin, Systems Science and Mathematics and

Head of the Center for Semantic Control and Optimization

Prof. Keith Sawyer, Asst. Prof. of Education

Prof. John Nachbar, Asst. Prof. of Economics

Prof. John Drobak, Prof. of Law

Doctorates of This Program or Supervised by This Faculty

Georg Dorffner, currently Lecturer (Universitätsassistent) at the Dept. of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Vienna and the Head of the Neural Networks Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)

Andrew F. Laine, currently Assoc. Prof. at Columbia University (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering)

Guillermo R. Simari, currently Head of Research of CS, Universidad Nacional del Sur (ARGENTINA), nominated for ACM dissertation award

Kanaan A. Faisal, last seen on the faculty at King Fahd Univ. (SAUDI ARABIA)

Rosanne F. Gamble, currently Assoc. Prof. at University of Tulsa

Gadi Pinkas, currently research manager at AMDOCS (ISRAEL), nominated for ACM Disseration Award

Nilesh L. Jain, currently Assoc. Research Scientist, Medical Informatics, Columbia Univ.

H. David Mathias, currently Asst. Prof. at Indiana U.

Steve Scott, currently Asst. Prof. at University of Nebraska

Courses This Term and Next

Fall 98-99: CS313 AI Laboratory

Fall 98-99: CS513 Applied Knowledge Engineering

Fall 98-99: CS516 Multiagent Systems

Spring 99: CS373 Genetic Algorithms

Spring 99: CS511 Artificial Intelligence I

Spring 99: CS515 Natural Language Processing

Spring 99: CS540 Formal Foundations of CS (emphasis on Logic)

Spring 99: CS549 Neural Networks I

Spring 99: CS582 Computational Learning Theory

Fall 98-99: CS674 Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Current(*) and Past Funding

Barnes-Jewish Cancer Foundation*

National Science Foundation, CISE/IRIS, Interactive Systems*

National Science Foundation, Education Directorate, Cross-Disciplinary Affairs*

National Science Foundation, CISE/IRIS, Information Technology and Organizations*

National Science Foundation, CISE/IRIS, Knowledge Models and Cognitive Systems

McDonnell Douglas Corporation

Southwestern Bell Corporation and Technology Resources

Defense Mapping Agency

CONICET

Pew Midstates Science and Mathematics Consortium