Jones accepted postdoctoral position at Maryland

Posted on September 21, 2009December 21, 2011 by LabManager

September 2009- Joshua Jones takes a postdoctoral position at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. AT UMBC, Josh will work with Marie des Jardins and Tim Oates. Way to go, Josh! We will miss you but are happy for you.

The paper “A Computational Model of Visual Analogies in Design. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research,” coauthored by Jim Davies, Ashok Goel & Nancy Nersessian is published in the Journal of Cognitive Systems Research. (Special Issue on Analogies – Integrating Cognitive Abilities, 10:204-215.)

The paper “Biologically Inspired Design: Products and Processes,” coauthored by Michael Helms, Swaroop S. Vattam & Ashok K. Goel is published in the journal Design Studies (30(5):606-622).

Goel presents at Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

Posted on September 18, 2009December 21, 2011 by LabManager

September 15-18, 2009- Ashok Goel presents presents the paper on “Teleological Software Adaptation” to the Third IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems in beautiful San Francisco. The paper is coauthored with Joshua Jones, Chris Parnin, Avik Sinharoy and Spencer Rugaber. He also presents the paper “Metareasoning-based Learning of Classification Hierarchies” to the related IEEE SASO workshop on meta-reasoning. This paper is coauthored with Joshua Jones.

Goel presents paper at IJCAI-09 Workshop

Posted on July 12, 2009December 21, 2011 by LabManager

July 12, 2009- Ashok Goel presents the paper “Introspective Self-Explanations for Report Generation in Intelligence Analysis” to the IJCAI-09 Workshop on Explanation (EXACT’09). This paper is coauthored with Emile Morse, Anita Raja, Jean Scholtz and John Stasko.

Goel gives talk at IJCAI-09 Workshop

Posted on July 11, 2009December 21, 2011 by LabManager

July 11, 2009- Ashok Goel gives an invited talk to the IJCAI-09 workshop on Grand Challenges in Reasoning from Experiences in beautiful Pasadena, California. His talk is entitled “Biological Inspired Design: Human Reasoning from Nature’s Experences.”

BID paper accepted to Creativity and Cognition

Posted on June 21, 2009December 21, 2011 by LabManager

June, 2009- Swaroop Vattam, Michael Helms & Ashok Goel’s paper “Nature of Creative Analogies in Biologically Inspired Innovative Design,” has been accepted for presentation at the Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Berkeley, California, October 2009.

Goel participatse in IES PI meeting

Posted on June 10, 2009December 21, 2011 by LabManager

June 7-10, 2009- Ashok Goel participates in the IES PI Meeting in Washington, DC.

Posted on May 19, 2009December 21, 2011 by LabManager

May 19, 2009- Ashok Goel is giving an invited talk, “Multimodal Case-Based Reasoning,” at the 22nd International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS).

Kunda and Goel attend IMFAR

Posted on May 7, 2009December 21, 2011 by LabManager

May 7, 2009- Maithilee Kunda and Ashok Goel are attending the International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR) in Chicago, IL, to present a poster titled, “Evidence for Thinking in Pictures as a Cognitive Account of Autism.”

Paper presented at AERA

Posted on April 21, 2009December 21, 2011 by LabManager

April 2009- The paper “Modeling Practices as a Function of Task Structure,” coauthored by Rebecca Jordan, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Steven Gray, Ashok Goel & Spencer Rugaber was presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, California, April 2009.

Goel to co-organize DIAGRAMS 2010

Posted on March 21, 2009December 21, 2011 by LabManager

March 2009- Ashok Goel, Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge, UK) and Hari Naryanan (Auburn University) to organize DIAGRAMS 2010, the Sixth International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams. The conference will be held on August 9-11, 2010, in Portland, Oregon, in conjunction with the 32nd meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.