Welcome
I currently lead the AI group at the International Computer Science Institute
(ICSI), am a core faculty member in the Cognitive Science Program, and an
a faculty member at the Institute
for Brain and Cognitive Sciences (ICBS) at the University of California, Berkeley.
I
primarily work in the language learning project NTL , at the International Computer Science Institute.
For a brief period, I worked at the Artificial
Intelligence Lab at SRI International.
My SRI homepage describes
projects that apply aspects of NTL theory to System Building. For a recent
overview of the NTL project, see Embodied meaning in a
Neural Theory of Language. For an earlier overview of the NTL/Lzero
project, see "Lzero:
The First Five Years".
Recently,
I have become interested in Information Technology for Developing Regions
(IT4D). For our initial effort toward accessible primary health care in
collaboration with Hesperian Foundation,
please see The Hesperian Digital Resource.
Research Interests
Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, socially relevant computing,
web semantics, cognitive and neural computation, learning and control in complex systems.
Publications
A selected list of publications
(many are online and available as PDF files)
Teaching
- Spring
2004: CS 182/
CogSci 110/ Linguistics 109 (joint with Jerry Feldman)
- Spring
2005: CS 182/
CogSci 110/ Linguistics 109 (joint with Jerry Feldman)
- Spring
2006: CS 182/
CogSci 110/ Linguistics 109
- Spring
2007: CS188: Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence Course
Survey
- Spring
2010: Cognitive Science 1: Introduction to Cognitive Science
- Other
Teaching/Tutorials.
- 2007
IK Interdisciplinary School, Germany
- 2006
IK Interdisciplinary School, Germany
- 2004
HLT/NAACL Tutorial on Semantic Structures for NLP (with Sanda Harabagiu)
- 2003
Eurolan School, Bucharest, Romania
Students
- Steve Sinha (EECS PhD 2008). AAAS
Science and Technology Policy Fellow, Washington DC.
- Joseph
Makin (EECS PhD 2008). PostDoctoral Fellow, Sabes Lab, UCSF.
- Leon Barrett (EECS PhD
2010). Google.
- Matt
Gedigian (MS 2010 (expected)). Quantifind (Start-up).
- Behrang Mohit (MS 2003, SIMS).
PostDoctoral Fellow, CMU Quatar.
- John Bryant (EECS PhD
2008 (Qualifying committee), PostDoc Supervisor). Research Scientist,
Ask.com
- Eva Mok (EECS PhD 2008
(Qualifying Committee)). Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago.
- Alberto
Amengual (CS PhD 2009, University of Majorca, Spain (External Member)). PostDoctoral Fellow, Mary Main Lab, UC Berkeley.
- Hayden
Wallis (CS PhD 2010), University of Otago, New Zealand (External Member).
Other Interests and
Links
- An essay about the naming conventions for Indian names, What's in a name.
- My Movie Reviews See Reviews.
- Cal
Hiking And Outdoor Society (CHAOS).
-
Petri Nets. Scholarpedia
Article Petri
World
-
ASHA
for education in the emerging world.
-
Hesperian
Foundation for health care for the emerging world.'>
-
TIER at UC Berkeley.