Marshall Gillson graduated with a MS in CS. Marshall worked on the Meta-Thinking project at DILab. In particular, he helped extend an interactive game environment called GAIA in which game playing agents use meta-reasoning to adapt themselves to new rules. He will join Google in Boston. (Congratulations Marshall! Way to go.)

Keith McGreggor presented a paper (oral presentation) entitled “Fractal Analogies for General Intelligence” at the Fifth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence at St. Anne’s College in Oxford, UK. The AGI conferences are the only major conference series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond.

Ashok Goel presented two posters at the First Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems in Menlo Park, California. The first poster described Joshua Jones work on “Conceptual Semantics of Domain Knowledge in Learning by Correcting Mistakes,” and the second poster described Swaroop Vattam’s work on “Interactive Analogical Retrieval.” Ashok was also a member of the organizing committee of the conference.

Ashok Goel, Swaroop Vattam and Russell Clark were selected to participate in the NSF I*Corps program in the Oct-Nov 2012 cohort at University of Michigan.

David Joyner, David Majerich, and Ashok Goel have had a paper accepted to the 2013 conference on Systems Engineering Research, to be held at Georgia Tech in March. The paper presents an overview of the tools developed and tested during last year’s summer camp.

Professor Ashok K. Goel gave a talk at TEDxPeachtree: “Does Our Future Require Us to Go Back to Nature?” From TEDx: “Ashok Goel challenges well-worn notions of design and creativity and makes a powerful case for bio-inspired design wherein nature serves as the ultimate inspiration for design innovation and sustainability.”

Swaroop Vattam’s dissertation was one among the

Ph.D. student David Joyner and research scientist David Majerich, with the help of undergraduates Nicolas Papin and Cherish Weiler, have successfully run a summer camp testing the DILab-developed MILA and MeTA software. In all, 16 students participated in the camp at Georgia Tech, during which time they visited Lake Clara Meer at Piedmont Park, the Georgia Aquarium, and several labs around campus.

Swaroop Vattam successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Interactive Analogical Retrieval: Practice, Theory and Technology”. Congratulations, Swaroop!

Michael Helms led off the conference talks with his presentation titled, “Analogical Problem Evolution in Biologically Inspired Design”.