Paper accepted to ICLS

January 30, 2010- The following paper has been accepted for presentation to the 2010 ICLS conference in Chicago, June 2010:

Suparna Sinha, Steven Gray, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Rebecca Jordan, Sameer Honwad, Catherine Eberbach, Spencer Rugaber, Swaroop Vattam & Ashok Goel. Appropriating Conceptual Representations: A Case of Transfer in a Middle School Science Teacher. To appear in Proc. Ninth International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Chicago, June 28-29, 2010.

Martie joins DILab, Gupta graduates

December 2009- Lee Martie joins DILab as full-time research scientist. Lee will work primarily on the Game AI project called GAIA. In addition, he will help DILab with technical issues. Welcome Lee.

Shantanu Gupta graduates with a MS in Computer Science! Shantanu worked on the Augur project on meta-reasoming. Congratulations Shantanu!

Kunda and McGreggor participate in AI symposium

November 5-6, 2009- Mathilee Kunda and Keith McGreggor participate in the the AAAI Fall Symposium on Multi-representational Architectures for Human-level Intelligence in Washington, DC, and present the “Addressing the Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test of ‘General’ Intelligence.”

Vattam, Helms, and Goel attend Creativity and Cognition

October 27-30, 2009- Swaroop Vattam, Michael Helms & Ashok Goel participate in the Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Berkeley, California. Swaroop presents the paper “Nature of Creative Analogies in Biologically Inspired Innovative Design” to the conference. Ashok Goel hosts a GVU reception for the conference participants and it is fun time!

Jones participates in AIIDE

October 14-16, 2009- Joshua Jones participates in the the Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-09), Stanford University, California, and presents a poster paper entitled “Adapting Game-Playing Agents to Game Requirements.”