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Selmer Bringsjord |
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Professor of Logic, Computer Science, and Cognitive Science |
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Assistant Director: |
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Bram van Heuveln |
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Director of the Minds and Machines program |
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Technical: |
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Jay McGlothlin |
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Web Producer, School of Humanities & Social Sciences |
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Associated Faculty: |
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Kostas Arkoudas |
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Research Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science |
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Marc Destefano |
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Game Studies |
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Yingrui Yang |
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Associate Professor, Cognitive Science |
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Paul Bello |
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Program Officer - Cognitive Science Basic Research Office of Naval Research, Code 341
Warfighter Performance and Protection. ONR Cogsci Program |
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Owen Kellett |
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Sangeet Khemlani |
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Bettina Schimanski |
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Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories |
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Dan Werner |
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PhD Graduate Students: |
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Micah Clark |
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Cognitive Science |
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Jinrong Li |
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Cognitive Science |
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| Deepa Mukherjee |
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Cognitive Science
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Andrew Shilliday |
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Computer Science |
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Joshua Taylor |
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Computer Science |
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Steve Nerbetski |
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Computer Science |
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Undergraduate Students: |
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Sean Austin |
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Cognitive Science |
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Sean Barnett |
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Computer Science |
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Alexander Bringsjord |
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Econ & Philosophy |
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Trevor Housten |
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Computer Science |
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Elliot Wolk |
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Info for Potential Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. students working in the RAIR Lab are either in the Cognitive Science Ph.D. program or the
Computer Science Ph.D. program. Successful applicants to either program to work under Bringsjord &
company in the RAIR Lab should have:
- A thorough understanding of logic-based AI (including a high level of mathematical maturity
and comfort with mathematical and philosophical logic) -- some relevant journal papers are
available from Bringsjord.
- Some familiarity with automated theorem provers, proof checkers, proof construction
environments (e.g., SNARK, Otter, Athena, OSCAR, Bringsjord's own MARMML/Chogic, etc.).
- Command over Common Lisp, and also declarative programming in general, and a willingness to
hammer out clean code under deadlines.
- An interest in the RAIR Lab's current key application areas (e.g., advanced synthetic
characters, Psychometric AI/integrated cognition/cognitive robotics, robot reasoning, digital
entertainment, AI in support of intelligence analysis, the construction of Bringsjord's MARMML
system for machine reasoning) -- info on these is available on this site and from Bringsjord
directly.
- A passion for debate and discussion (preferably over food) regarding the philosophical and
logico-mathematical foundations of AI and Cog Sci.
- And it doesn't hurt to understand why Bringsjord rates NY's Capital District as the best place
to live in the United States.
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RAIR Lab News
"Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities of a Child" Presentation
March 10, 2008
At a recent conference on artificial intelligence, a group of researcher lead by Selmer Bringsjord unveiled the "embodiment" of their success to date: "Eddie," a 4-year-old child in Second Life who can reason about his own beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches human children his age.
RPI Press Release
Science Daily
Virtual World News
"Provability-Based Semantic Interoperability via Translation Graphs" Presentation
November 6, 2007
RAIR Lab researchers headed to New Zealand in November to present Provability-Based
Semantic Interoperability via Translation Graphs at the International Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web (ONISW 2007).
The ONISW2007 paper introduced the translation graph as a formal method for enabling semantic interoperability between systems on the Semantic Web.
Micah Clark presented at NA-CAP 2007
July 26, 2007
RAIR Lab researcher Micah Clark presented Toward the Lying Machine
at the 2007 North American Computers and Philosophy (NA-CAP 2007) Conference. The paper lays the foundation for a future lying machine that manipulates human
beliefs through psychologically persuasive sophistic lies.
Selmer Bringsjord receives NSF Award
July 20, 2007
Selmer Bringsjord, Nick Webb and other researchers received a National Science Foundation award to research Social Robotics. The Team proposes to use
Social Robotics as a mechanism to deliver a revitalized Computer Science (CS) education.
Deepa Mukherjee presented at ICAI .07
June 28, 2007
RAIR lab researcher Deepa Mukherjee attended the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI .07) from June 25 - 28, 2007
and presented a paper titled The Multi-Mind Effect.
The paper shows that while individuals cannot solve problems that require context-independent reasoning, groups of individuals can often solve such problems, and leads the toward
the goal of teaching humans to reason more powerfully, and the goal of engineering groups of computers with greater reasoning power than what any particular machine can muster today.
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