Search:  First name, Last name, Title, Organization, or Field   Hint: Leave blank to view All Researchers Page 1 of 14>> Sam S. Adams , IBM Distinguished Engineer     Organization: IBM Research Division Primary Field: Computer Science Secondary Field: About: Sam Adams made a successful leap from his own startup company, Knowledge Systems Inc, to a role in a a major corporation, IBM. As a member of IBM's research division, Adams investigates cognitive human/computer interfaces. The goal of Adams current research is to make computer systems capable of interacting with people at a more human level. Sam S. Adams PLEASE UPDATE , IBM Distinguished Engineer     Organization: IBM Research Primary Field: Computer Science Secondary Field: Cognitive Science About: Throughout his career in Computer Science, Sam Adams has designed and developed complex software systems in numerous large scale, real world domains. Behind these efforts has been a continual search for algorithms, components, technology and archectures that might someday support human-style understanding and intelligence in machines. His recent effort, the Joshua Blue project at IBM, focuses on achieving the full cognitive capabilities of a human toddler within an embodied machine. Using developmental neurophysiology and developmental psychology as both a set of requirements and a roadmap, the Joshua Blue project attempts to create an embodied system capable of independent emotional cognitive development that mirrors similar development in human infants, from conception to around 3 years of age. We have also developed a testing approach for this effort, a so-called Toddler Turing Test, that will enable us to determine the degree of human capability acheived in our systems. Narendra Ahuja , Donald Biggar Willet Professor     Organization: University of Illinois - Urbana Champlain: Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Beckman Institute, and the Coordinated Science Laboratory Primary Field: Robotics Secondary Field: Pattern Recognition About: The Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory is engaged in basic research, technology development and technology transfer involving images and video. The laboratory is a part of the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, and affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Participant: Workshop on Development and Learning, April 2000, Michigan State University. Moonis Ali , President     Organization: International Society of Applied Intelligence (ISAI) Primary Field: Artificial Intelligence Secondary Field: About: Dr. Moonis Ali promotes increased knowledge of intelligent systems and improved scientific literacy in the field. He has performed research and has developed intelligent systems for industrial applications, including diagnostic systems which detect faults in rocket and jet engines. Dr. Ali is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Applied Intelligence and is General Chairman of the International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Applied Intelligence and Expert Systems. John R. Anderson , Professor     Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Primary Field: Cognitive Science Secondary Field: Computer Science About: The goal of my research is to understand how people organize knowledge that they acquire from their diverse experiences to produce intelligent behavior. The concern is very much with how it is all put together and this has led to the focus on what are called "unified theories of cognition." A unified theory is a cognitive architecture that can perform in detail a full range of cognitive tasks. Ronald Arkin , Professor     Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology: College of Computing Primary Field: Robotics Secondary Field: Robot Learning About: "Dr. Arkin's research interests include behavior-based reactive control and action-oriented perception for mobile robots and unmanned aerial vehicles, hybrid deliberative/reactive software architectures, robot survivability, multiagent robotic systems, biorobotics, human-robot interaction, and learning in autonomous systems. He has over 110 technical publications in these areas. Prof. Arkin has written a textbook entitled Behavior-Based Robotics published by MIT Press in May 1998 and has co-edited (with G. Bekey) a book entitled Robot Colonies published by Kluwer in the Spring of 1997." Minoru Asada , Professor     Organization: Osaka University, Department of Mechanical Engineering for Computer-Controlled Machinery Primary Field: Robot Learning Secondary Field: Computer Vision About: Minoru Asada heads a robotics laboratory, the Asada Lab, under the Group of Mechanical Engineering at Osaka University in Japan. Their publications include both low-level robot sensing and control work and higher-level behavior learning. They have been doing a research on vision based reinforcement learning and applied the method to build real soccer playing robots. In the first stage, a robot learned to shoot a ball into a goal. In the second stage, we set up an opponent just before the goal, that is, a goal keeper, and make the robot learn to shoot a ball into a goal avoiding the goal keeper. This can be considered as a problem of learning from other agents. Renee Baillargeon , professor     Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology in the Developmental division. Primary Field: Cognitive Science Secondary Field: Psychology About: Infant cognition (acquisition of knowledge about the physical world, causal reasoning, problem solving, categorization, representation, memory, spatial reasoning, numerical reasoning) and infant perception (object segregation, time integration). Christian Balkenius , Professor     Organization: Lund University Primary Field: Cognitive Science Secondary Field: About: Neural network modelling of sequential processing, induction, categorization, motivation, action selection, spatial learning, conditioning, and habituation. Dana H. Ballard , Professor     Organization: University of Rochester Primary Field: Computer Vision Secondary Field: About: "Dana Ballard's main research interest is in computational theories of the brain with emphasis on human vision." Page 1 of 14>>