February 11, 2010- Dr. Rangam Subramanian from Idaho National Laboratory visits DILab.
Category Archives: News
Wiltgen presents in Japan
November 2010- Bryan Wiltgen presents the paper “DANE: Fostering Creativity in and through Biologically Inspired Design” to the 1st International Conference on Design Creativity in Kobe, Japan.
Yen presents in China
September 2010- Professor Jeannette Yen presents a joint CBID-DILab paper entitled “Evaluating biological systems for their potential in engineering design” to the 3rd International Conference on Bionics Engineering in Zhuhai, China.
Professor Mary Lou Maher gives a talk on “Understanding Creativity Through Computation” to the Creativity + Cognition + Computation seminar series and visits DILab.
DILab has strong presence at International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Diagrams
August 2010- Ashok Goel, Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge) and Hari Narayanan (Auburn) chaired the Sixth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams in Portland, Oregon. The conference was big success.
Michael Helms presents two papers to the 2010 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference on Design Theory and Methods in Montreal, Canada. The first was entitled “The Effects of Functional Modeling on Understanding Complex Biological Systems,” and the second “Biologically Inspired Design: A Macrocognitive Account.”
Sameer Honwad presents a joint Rutgers-Georgia Tech paper “Connecting the Visible to the Invisible: Helping Middle School Students Understand Complex Ecosystem Processes” to the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Portland, Oregon.
Ashok Goel presented two poster papers to the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Portland, Oregon: “Taking a Look (Literally!) at the Raven’s Intelligence Test: Two Visual Solution Strategies,” and “Learning Functional and Causal Abstractions of Classroom Aquaria.”
Misc. July 2010 News
July 2010- Keith McGreggor and Maithilee Kunda organize the AAAI-2010 workshop on Visual Representation and Reasoning in Atlanta. Keith also gives a talk on “A Fractal Analogy Approach to Raven’s Test of Intelligence” to the workshop.
Ashok Goel gives the keynote talk on “Meta-Reasoning for Self-Adaptation in Intelligent Agents” to the AAAI-2010 workshop on Meta-Cogniton.
Ashok Goel gives an invited talk on “Reflection in Action” to the AAAI-2010 workshop on Goal-Directed Autonomy.
Joshua Jones gives a talk on “Effects of Faulty Knowledge Engineering on Structured Classification Learning” to the AAAI-2010 workshop on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation.
Julia Svoboda joins DILab as a post-doctoral fellow. She will work on the EMT project on learning about complex systems in middle school science.
Sinha presents in Chicago
June 2010- Suparna Sinha presents a joint Rutgers-Georgia Tech paper “Appropriating Conceptual Representations: A Case of Transfer in a Middle School Science Teacher” to the Ninth International Conference of the Learning Sciences in Chicago.
Misc. May 2010 News
May 2010- Swaroop Vattam successfully defends his thesis proposal entitled “Mediated Analogy: From Practice to Theory to Technology.” His thesis committee includes Professors Janet Kolodner, Mary Lou Maher, Nancy Nersessian and Jeannette Yen.
Maithilee Kunda presents the paper “Can the Raven’s Progressive Matrices Intelligence Test Be Solved by Thinking in Pictures?” to IMFAR-2010 in Philadelphia.
Joshua Jones graduates with a Ph.D. in Computer Science! Congratulations Josh!
Josh is now a postdoctoral research scientist with Marie des Jardins and Tim Oates at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Adity Dokania, Shantanu Gupta, Rohan Tewari, Bryan Wiltgen and Deepak Zambre graduate with a M.S. in Computer Science! Congratulations all!
Adity is joining The MathWorks in Boston, Deepak is joining Microsoft in Seattle, and Bryan is joining the Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
Conference awarded to Georgia Tech & Ashok Goel
April 2010- ACM awards the 8th International Conference on Creativity and Cognition to Georgia Tech with Ashok Goel as the Chair.
Kunda wins Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
April 2010- Maithilee Kunda wins the 2010 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Congratulations, Maithilee!
Briefly, building from Temple Grandin’s “Thinking in Pictures” hypothesis about people with autism spectrum disorders, Maithilee has identified Raven’s intelligence test as a context for understanding analogical representations of visuo-spatial knowledge. She, along with Keith McGreggor, has developed a computational model of the Raven’s test using only affine transformations over analogical representations of the input images. She has found that this novel computational technique performs about as well on the Raven’s test as a ten year old typically developing child. Way to go!
Deepak Zambre to join Microsoft Research
April 2010- Deepak Zambre to join Microsoft Research.
