Norvig, Peter

Artificial Intelligence, natural language, Lisp and Java in AI. Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center.
http://www.norvig.com

McCarthy, John

Programming Languages, mathematical theory of computation, artificial intelligence. Stanford University.
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/index.html

Guvenir, H. Altay

Bilkent University. Machine learning, data mining, and computer-aided language learning.
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~guvenir

Thaler, Stephen

Researcher into neural networks and creativity.
http://www.imagination-engines.com/thaler.htm

ML & CBR Folks

A list of home pages for people in machine learning and case-based reasoning.
http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/~aha/people.html

McDermott, Drew

Extensive work in logic, planning, and robotics, also known for his blunt public appraisals of the state of AI research. Interviewed in Crossroads, the student magazine of the ACM.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-1/interview.html

Russell, Stuart

Professor at the Computer Science Division of Berkeley University and author (with Peter Norvig) of the famous AI textbook "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach".
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/

Schubert, Johan

Research on belief functions, clustering, neural networks, fusion. Defense Research Establishment.
http://www.foa.se/fusion/

Harmelen, Frank van

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Approximate reasoning, medical protocols, semantic web, specification languages for KBS.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/

Jacob, Christian

University of Calgary. Emergent computing in biological networks, collective intelligence, swarm intelligence, genetic algorihms, genome programming.
http://www2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jacob/

Treur, Jan

professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Research interests include multi-agent systems, compositional modelling, temporal semantics, common sense and nonmonotonic reasoning.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~treur/

Dorst, Leo

University of Amsterdam. Applications of geometric (Clifford) algebra, exploration, reasoning with uncertainty in robotics.
http://www.wins.uva.nl/~leo

Jackson, Peter

Thomson Legal & Regulatory. Information extraction, expert systems, document summarization, AI and the law.
http://members.aol.com/jacksonpe/music1/home.htm

McGuinness, Deborah

Researcher in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Systems. Co-designer and developer of CLASSIC and Chimaera among others. Associate Director of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/

Frasconi, Paolo

Università di Firenze. Machine learning for sequential and structured data, bioinformatics, text and natural language, pattern recognition.
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo

Massa, Paolo

Phd student at Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) in Italy.
http://sra.itc.it/people/massa/index.html

Roweis, Sam

University of Toronto. Researcher in pattern recognition, neural networks, artificial intelligence.
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~roweis/

AAAI Elected Fellows

Elected Fellows of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.html

Staab, Steffen

Research topics: semantic web, knowledge management, and natural language processing. List of his publications, projects, courses taught, contact information.
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst

Pratt, Lorien

Neural network researcher and telecommunications analyst. Resume, links, personal information.
http://www.lorienpratt.com

Bacchus, Fahiem

University of Toronto. Planning systems, temporal logic, constraint satisfaction problems and formal models.
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fbacchus/

Blum, Avrim

Carnegie Mellon University. Interests include machine learning, approximation algorithms, on-line algorithms and planning systems. Online publications and talks.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/

Simon, Herbert A.

Late Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. One of the founders of Artificial Intelligence. Research mainly in modeling and simulation of human cognition.
http://www.psy.cmu.edu/psy/faculty/hsimon/hsimon.html

Monz, Christof

Research interests: Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Automated Deduction. Site lists on-line publications, projects, activities, and contact info.
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~christof

Saffiotti, Alessandro

Head of the mobile robotics lab at Orebro University, Sweden. Research area: integration of cognition and physical embedding in autonomous robots.
http://aass.oru.se/~asaffio

Hoos, Holger H.

University of British Columbia. Preference elicitation, dynamic constraint optimization, satisfiability problems in propositional logic, computational musicology.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos

Ho, Shum Wing

Chinese University of Hong Kong. Research interests are Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Intelligence.
http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~whshum

Vu, Xuan-Ha

Swiss Federal Institutue of Technology. Research interests include constraint satisfaction.
http://liawww.epfl.ch/~xuanha/

Kamali, Mahsa

Amirkabir University of Technology. Facial image analysis and synthesis, gesture recognition, emotion modeling.
http://www.geocities.com/mahsa_kamali/

Swarup, Samarth

Graduate student at the University of Illinois, working on neurobiologically inspired systems and learning in the superior colliculus.
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~swarup

Teuscher, Christof

C.V., list of awards, publications, memberships, projects, and conferences. Interests in neural networks.
http://www.teuscher.ch/christof

Branting, L. Karl

LiveWire Logic, Inc. Empirical methods of natural language processing, case-based reasoning, AI and law, ecological and environmental applications of AI.
http://www.karlbranting.net

Ehlert, Patrick

Delft University of Technology. List of projects and publications. Interests in agents and robotics.
http://www.kbs.twi.tudelft.nl/People/Staff/P.A.M.Ehlert/index.html

Weerdt, Mathijs de

Delft University of Technology. Researcher in multi-agent planning. List of publications.
http://www.pds.twi.tudelft.nl/~mathijs

Dorigo, Marco

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Research projects in Ant algorithms, metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization, robot shaping and behavior engineering.
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/

Charniak, Eugene

Brown University. Part-of-speech tagging, probabilistic context-free grammar induction, syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic parsing, and lexical resource acquisition through statistical means.
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/ec/

Allen, James F.

University of Rochester. Natural language understanding, discourse, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning and planning.
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/users/faculty/james/

Brachman, Ron

Director of the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) at DARPA. Knowledge representation, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing.
http://www.brachman.org/

Delord, Christophe

ENSEEIHT, France, Computer Science engineer, Artificial Intelligence (dialogue simulation, speech acts, PROLOG), Python, lexical and syntactic parsing.
http://christophe.delord.free.fr

Szalas, Andrzej

College of Economics and Computer Science, Olsztyn, Poland. Unmanned aerial vehicles. Autonomous systems.
http://www.ida.liu.se/~andsz/

Carreras, Xavier

Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, PhD student, machine learning, natural language processing.
http://www.lsi.upc.es/~carreras

Conitzer, Vincent ,

Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Phd Student. Intersection of computer science and game theory, computer science and economics, multiagent systems, automated negotiation and contracting.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/

Konik, Tolga

University of Michigan AI Lab, Ph.D. student, machine learning, learning by observation, qualitative reasoning.
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~konik/

Faltings, Boi

Director of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, EPFL, President of Swiss AI Society. Software agents, constraint-based reasoning, case-based reasoning.
http://liawww.epfl.ch/~faltings

Xu, Ke

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Design and analysis of algorithms, phase transitions, logic programming, data mining.
http://www.nlsde.buaa.edu.cn/~kexu

Lin, Fan

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Maryland University, machine learning, data mining.
http://www.linfan.net

Reitter, David

University of Edinburgh. Multimodal systems, natural language generation, information structure and salience, rhetorical analysis.
http://www.reitter-it-media.de/compling/

Liu, Hugo

MIT Media Laboratory. Philosophically motivated AI, commonsense reasoning, aesthetics and AI, assistive software agents, lexical semantics, story understanding.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo

Meila, Marina

University of Washington. Machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, graphical probability models, tree belief networks and mixtures of trees, maximum entropy discrimination, spectral clustering and image segmentation.
http://www.stat.washington.edu/mmp/

Mantaras, Ramon Lopez de

Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the CSIC. AI and music, qualitative approaches to landmark-based robot navigation.
http://www.iiia.csic.es/~mantaras

Nebel, Bernhard

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. Professor. Knowledge representation, planning, and robotics, with an emphasis on robotic soccer.
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~nebel/

Biermann, Alan W.

Duke University. Chair, Department of Computer Science. AAAI Fellow. Computational linguistics, automatic programming and inference, Author of Great Ideas in Computer Science.
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~awb

McTear, Mike

University of Ulster at Jordanstown. Dialogue modelling, natural language processing, computational linguistics, user modelling.
http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~cbdg23/

Jacob, Rob

Tufts University. Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces, virtual environments, eye-gaze tracking.
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jacob/

Grasso, Floriana

University of Liverpool. Computational models of natural argument, affective natural language generation, conflict resolution.
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/

Zhou, Yujian

Illinois Institute of Technology. Ph.D. student, Adaptive tutoring, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining.
http://www.iit.edu/~zhouyuj/

Bagga, Amit

Avaya, Inc. Document summarization, information retrieval, cross-document coreference.
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~amit/

Forbus, Kenneth

Northwestern University. Qualitative physics, spatial reasoning, cognitive simulation of analogical processing.
http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~forbus/index.html

Carberry, Sandra

University of Delaware. Department of Computer and Information Sciences Chair. Computational linguistics, dialog systems, machine learning, planning and plan recognition, medical informatics, user modeling.
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/

Loveland, Donald W.

Duke University. Automated theorem proving, logic programming, knowledge evaluation, expert systems, test-and-treatment problem.
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~dwl/

Loui, Ronald

Washington University in St. Louis. AI and the law, models of negotiation, modeling legal argument.
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~loui/

McRoy, Susan

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dialog theory, natural language generation, argumentation theory, intelligent tutoring systems.
http://www.cs.uwm.edu/faculty/mcroy/

Sidner, Candace

MERL Cambridge Research. Collaborative inteface agents, spoken dialog, COLLAGEN, intelligent tutoring.
http://www.merl.com/people/sidner/

Rich, Charles

MERL Cambridge Research. Collaborative interface agents, task modeling, COLLAGEN, intelligent tutoring.
http://www.merl.com/people/rich/

Traum, David R.

USC Instititue for Creative Technology. Discourse structure. Grounding in discourse. Dialog and virtual reality agents.
http://www.ict.usc.edu/~traum/

Terveen, Loren

University of Minnesota. Computer-mediated communication, social data mining, computer-supported cooperative work, recommender system.
http://www.cs.umn.edu/faculty/terveen.html

Moore, Johanna D.

University of Edinburgh. Computational modeling of tutorial dialogue, multimedia explanation, integrated techniques for interpretation and generation, patient education.
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~jmoore/

Di Eugenio, Barbara

University of Illinois at Chicago. Interpretation and generation of instructional text, computational models of tutorial dialogue, modeling collaboration in human-human and computer-human dialogues, referential expressions.
http://www.cs.uic.edu/~bdieugen/

Seneff, Stephanie

MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Phonological modelling, auditory modelling, computer speech recognition, statistical language modelling, natural language understanding and generation, discourse and dialogue modelling, and prosodic analysis.
http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/people/seneff.shtml

Litman, Diane J.

University of Pittsburgh. Spoken dialogue for intelligent tutoring systems, reinforcement learning for optimizing spoken dialogue agents, prosodic analysis of misrecognitions and corrections, plan recognition.
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~litman/

Novick, David

University of Texas at El Paso. Department of Computer Science Chair. Spoken dialog models, mediated communication, user interface development methodologies.
http://www.cs.utep.edu/novick/

Ward, Karen

University of Texas at El Paso. Acknowledgments in human-computer interaction, multimodal interfaces, speech acts.
http://www.cs.utep.edu/kward/

Hearst, Marti

University of California at Berkeley. Data mining, information retrieval, user interfaces, web search.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/

Horvitz, Eric

Microsoft Research. Decision theory, reasoning systems, user modeling, reasoning under uncertainty.
http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/

Rudnicky, Alex

Carnegie Mellon University. Speech recognition, CMU Communicator, dialog systems, speech agents.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/air/WWW/HomePage.html

Littman, Michael

Rutgers. Planning under uncertainty, markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, latent semantic indexing, text retrieval.
http://athos.rutgers.edu/~mlittman/

Palmer, Martha

University of Pennsylvania. Logic programming, computational lexical semantics, crosslinguistic verb classes, machine translation, multilingual information processing.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mpalmer/home.html

Wilks, Yorick

University of Sheffield. Computational pragmatics, belief modeling, lexicons, information extraction.
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick/

Cassell, Justine

MIT Media Lab. Gesture and narrative language, animated agents, intonation, facial expression, computer vision.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~justine/

Sastry, Kumara

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. student. Genetic algorithms, competent GAs and efficiency-enhancement techniques with application in material sciences.
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/~kumara/

Jurafsky, Dan

University of Colorado, Boulder. Latent semantic analysis, stochastic context-free grammars, pronunciation modeling, discourse tagging, bayesian models of sentence processing, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with James H. Martin.
http://www.colorado.edu/ling/jurafsky/

Manning, Christopher

Stanford University. Probabilistic parsing, grammar induction, text categorization and clustering, electronic dictionaries, information extraction and presentation, and linguistic typology.
http://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/

Schütze, Hinrich

Stanford University. Statistical NLP, text mining, Co-author of "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" with Christopher Manning.
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~schuetze/index.html

van Schooten, Boris

University of Twente. Interaction models in (spoken) dialogue systems, specification techniques and multimodal systems and virtual environments, multiagent virtual environments.
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schooten/

Benjamin, D. Paul

Pace University. Problem decomposition and theory reformulation, integrated cognitive architectures for autonomous robots, distributed constraint satisfaction problems, semigroup theory and dynamical systems, category theory in software design.
http://csis.pace.edu/~benjamin/

Qu, Yan

Carnegie Mellon University. Information retrieval, extraction and management, natural language processing, Chinese computing, dialog and discourse processing, machine translation, cooperative human-computer interaction.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~yqu/

Mitrovic, Nikola

University of Zaragoza. Ph.D. student. Mobile agents, intelligent user interfaces, adaptive user interfaces, mobile applications.
http://www.cps.unizar.es/~mitrovic

Murray, Arthur T.

Aka Mentifex. Author of a theory of mind, proof-of-concept software and the book "AI4U".
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/

Sinka, Mark

University of Reading. Web document clustering and categorization, information Retrieval, XML and search engine optimisation.
http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sir01mps/index.htm

Bahlmann, Claus

Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, On-line handwriting recognition.
http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/bahlmann/index.en.html

Sure, York

University of Karlsruhe. Semantic web, OntoWeb, distributed knowledge, collaborative ontology, knowledge retrieval.
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu/

Liu, Jundong

Ohio University. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Medical image analysis, computer vision.
http://ace.cs.ohiou.edu/~liu

Szepesvári, Csaba

Mindmaker, Ltd., Budapest. Reinforcement learning, adaptive control, visual tracking (LS-N-IPS), speech processing; on-line publications.
http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~szepes

Strens, Malcolm

QinetiQ. Reinforcement learning and image target tracking.
http://strens.com

Greening, Dan R.

CEO BigTribe. Entrepreneur and researcher. Personalization, collaborative filtering, computer-supported cooperative work, ubiquitous computing, simulated annealing, distributed computing, social psychology.
http://dan.greening.name

Gini, Maria

University of Minnesota. Distributed intelligence, cooperation of miniature robots, robot navigation, multi-agent systems for e-commerce and supply-chain, economic agents.
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~gini

Finn, Aidan

Smart Media Institute, University College Dublin. Machine learning for automatic genre classification, active learning for information extraction.
http://smi.ucd.ie/aidan

Goyal, Ram Dayal

Intigma India. Data mining, natural language processing, data mining, neural networks, image processing.
http://www.rdgoyal.freehomepage.com

Hotho, Andreas

University of Karlsruhe, AIFB. Text, data and web mining especially in text clustering, semantic web mining, knowledge management.
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/aho/