May 2009- Avik Sinharoy graduates with a MS in CS. Avik worked on the STAB project on story analysis. Congratulations Avik!
Author Archive: 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).
Jones attends AAMAS
May 10, 2009- Josh Jones is attending the Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) in Budapest, Hungary, to present a paper titled, “Metareasoning-Based Adaptation of Agent Classification Knowledge.”
Kunda and Goel attend IMFAR
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.”
Murdock works with IBM’s Watson
April 27, 2009- DILAB alum Bill Murdock is playing a central technical role in IBM’s plan to enter a computer into the Jeopardy quiz show to compete with human players on TV. His work has been focusing on question understanding (i.e., understanding what a question really is asking) and has achieved an accuracy rate of 60-70% for understanding questions of the kind typically asked on Jeopardy (which is about twice as much as other question understanding systems). Way to go, Bill!
Paper presented at AERA
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
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.
Goel presents at DARPA
February 23-24, 2009- Ashok Goel presented DILab’s work on story analysis to the DARPA Workshop on Experience-Based Narrative Memory (En-Em) in Washington, DC. See the STAB project for more details.
Paper published in AI in Engineering Design Journal
February 2009- The paper “Structure, Behavior & Function of Complex Systems: The SBF Modeling Language,” coauthored by Ashok Goel, Spencer Rugaber & Swaroop Vattam is published in the International Journal of AI in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (Special Issue on Developing and Using Engineering Ontologies, 23: 23-35, 2009.)
Goel presents at NSF REESE PI Workshop
February 17-19, 2009- Ashok Goel presented DILab’s work learning functional models of complex systems to the NSF REESE PI Workshop in Washington, DC. See the ACT project for more details.
