January 7-9, 2010- Keith McGreggor participates in the First International Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Keith presents the paper “A Fractal Approach to Visual Analogy.”
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McGreggor and Kunda’s workshop proposal accepted
December 2009- Keith McGreggor and Maithilee Kunda’s proposal for a AAAI-2010 workshop on Visual Representation and Reasoning is accepted. Please see the workshop website for details.
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!
Martie joins DILab
October 2009- Lee Martie joins DILab as a part-time research programmer. Lee will work primarily on the Game AI project called GAIA.
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.”
Jones accepted postdoctoral position at Maryland
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
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.
Si visits DILab
September 8-9, 2009- Mei Si from UCS Institute of Creative Technology visits DILab. Her talk entitled “Thespian: A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Authoring Interactive Narratives.”
