August 2009- DILab wins a major grant from the NSF CreativeIT program. The project is entitled “Computational Tools for Enhancing Creativity in Biologically Inspired Design”, and represents a collaboration between DILab and the Georgia Tech Center for Biologically Inspired Design.
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Jones defends Ph.D. dissertation
August 13, 2009- Joshua Jones defends his Ph.D. Dissertation entitled “Empirically-Based Self-Diagnosis and Repair of Domain Knowledge” on August 13. His thesis committee includes Tom Dietterich, Ashok Goel, Alex Gray, Charles Isbell and Ashwin Ram. Congratulations Josh!
DILab advertises for two postdoc positions
July 2009- Design & Intelligence Laboratory advertises two postdoctoral research scientists positions. One position is in AI Game Playing and Software Agents (the GAIA project) and the other is in AI, Learning Sciences and Educational Technology (the ACT project).
Goel presents paper at IJCAI-09 Workshop
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
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.”
DILab wins IES grant
June, 2009- DILAB wins major grant from IES! The US Dept. of Education’s Institute for Education Science has awarded a three-year grant entitled “Systems and Cycles: Using Structure-Behavior-Function Thinking as a Conceptual Tool for Understanding Complex Natural Systems in Middle School Science.” This is an inter-disciplinary, inter-university project involving the Graduate School of Education and the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University and the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Visual thinking paper accepted to AAAI Fall Symposium
June, 2009- Mathilee Kunda, Keith McGreggor and Ashok Goel’s paper “Addressing the Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test of ‘General’ Intelligence,” has been accepted for presentation at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Multi-representational Architectures for Human-level Intelligence at MIT in October 2009.
BID paper accepted to Creativity and Cognition
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
June 7-10, 2009- Ashok Goel participates in the IES PI Meeting in Washington, DC.
Sinharoy graduates with MS in CS
May 2009- Avik Sinharoy graduates with a MS in CS. Avik worked on the STAB project on story analysis. Congratulations Avik!
