Clancey, William J.
- NASA/Ames Research Center. Brahms multiagent simulation system, situated cognition, Haughton-Mars Project, human-centered computing.
- http://homepage.mac.com/WJClancey/~WJClancey/

Airoldi, Edoardo
- Princeton University. Statistical (Bayesian) elements of graph theory. Data analysis of complex and dynamic networks in the social and biological sciences. Overview of publications and activities.
- http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/~eairoldi/

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

Dorst, Leo
- University of Amsterdam. Applications of geometric (Clifford) algebra, exploration, reasoning with uncertainty in robotics.
- http://staff.science.uva.nl/~leo/

Makris, Dimitrios
- Kingston University. Senior lecturer and member of the Digital Imaging Research Centre. Research in 3D pose recovery, motion analysis and multi-camera tracking.
- http://staffnet.kingston.ac.uk/~ku32195/

Zytnicki, Matthias
- INRA Toulouse. Bioinformatics, weighted constraint satisfaction problems, non-coding RNAs.
- http://www.inra.fr/internet/Departements/MIA/T/zytnicki/

Maes, Pattie
- Associate Professor at MIT's Media Laboratory. Areas of expertise are Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Information Filtering and Electronic Commerce.
- http://web.media.mit.edu/~pattie/

Pellier, Damien
- CRIP5 - Paris 5 Laboratory. Multi-agent systems, planning and scheduling, distributed problem solving, cooperative robotics.
- http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~pellier/

Fournier-Viger, Philippe
- University of Quebec at Montreal. Learning objects, cognitive modelling, virtual learning environments and intelligent tutoring systems.
- http://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com

Kamovich, Aliaksander
- Minsk, Belarus. Automatic image stitching, target tracking, ICA and PCA compression
- http://kamovich.googlepages.com/

Carpenter, Julie
- University of Washington. Relationship between social software/interfaces and human attitudes and behaviors; user responses to emotion in embodied agents.
- http://www.jgcarpenter.com/

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

Goel, Ashok K.
- Georgia Tech. Knowledge-based reasoning and learning, design cognition and computing, creativity, self-adaptation.
- http://home.cc.gatech.edu/dil/3

Chiang, Yao-Yi
- Geosemble Technologies. Computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, geospatial information integration.
- http://www.yoyoi.info

Wahlster, Wolfgang
- Universität des Saarlandes. Multimodal and perceptive user interfaces, user modeling, ambient intelligence, embodied conversational agents, smart navigation systems, semantic web services, and resource-adaptive cognitive technologies, VERMOBIL.
- http://www.dfki.de/~wahlster/

Pan, Jeffrey Junfeng
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Data mining, machine learning, optimization, mobile computing and information retrieval.
- http://www.cs.ust.hk/~panjf/

Tunstall-Pedoe, William
- Cambridge, England. Cryptic crossword solving; anagrams; search; computer chess; knowledge representation.
- http://www.williamtp.com/

Popple, James
- Australian National University. Legal expert systems.
- http://cs.anu.edu.au/~James.Popple/

Dyke, James
- University of Sussex. Daisyworld, gaia, mep, artificial life, theoretical biology, robotics and evolutionary theory.
- http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/jgd20/

Lavoie, Benoit
- University of Quebec at Montreal. Intelligent tutoring systems, semantic web, question-answer systems, translation, natural language generation.
- http://www.benoit-lavoie.ca

Léauté, Thomas
- European Space Agency. Agile systems, temporal planning.
- http://homepage.mac.com/thomas.leaute/index.html

Ketter, Wolfgang
- University of Minnesota. Computer science and economics, multiagent systems, automated negotiation and contracting.
- http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~ketter/

Cer, Daniel
- University of Colorado - Boulder. Acoustic and lexical features of emphatic speech.
- http://cer.freeshell.org

Alkhalifa, Eshaa
- University of Bahrain. Multimedia adaptable intelligent tutoring systems, student modeling, cognitive style.
- http://www.silvertair.com

Pietruszkiewicz, Wieslaw
- Szczecin Technical University (Poland). Machine learning and knowledge (data) mining, optimal (kalman) filtering, expert and decision support systems.
- http://www.pietruszkiewicz.com

Galassi, Ugo
- University of Eastern Piedmont. User profiling, hierarchical HMMs, learning regular expressions.
- http://www.ugogalassi.net

Beal, Matthew J.
- University at Buffalo, SUNY. Nonparamtric Bayes, bioinformatics, HMMs, probablisitic sensor fusion.
- http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/mbeal

Koenig, Sven
- University of Southern California. Decision making, situated agents, distributed agents.
- http://idm-lab.org/

Vu, Xuan-Ha
- Has a degree from Swiss Federal Institutue of Technology, but now holds a postdoc position at Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland. Research interests include constraint satisfaction.
- http://4c.ucc.ie/~xuanha/

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

Reitter, David
- University of Edinburgh. Multimodal systems, natural language generation, structural priming/alignment in dialogue, rhetorical analysis.
- http://www.david-reitter.com/compling/

Lin, Fan
- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Maryland University, machine learning, data mining. Ph.D. student.
- http://www.lfan.net/

Altman, Christopher
- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology. Advanced research and development inititiates at the confluence of quantum mechanics and information science: superconducting quantum computing, superposed adaptive quantum networks.
- http://altman.casimirinstitute.net/

Katirai, Hooman
- MIT. Machine learning applied to medicine, text management, and computational linguistics.
- http://www.mit.edu/~hooman/

Finn, Aidan
- School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin. Automated information extraction using convergent boundary classification, machine learning for automatic genre classification, active learning for information extraction.
- http://www.aidanf.net

Weerdt, Mathijs de
- Researcher in multi-agent planning at Delft University of Technology. Tutorial on multi-agent planning, list of own publications and publications related to distributed AI.
- http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~mathijs

Paszke, Łukasz
- Instytute of Hydro-Engineering PAS, Gdańsk, Poland. Application of artificial intelligence in the prediction of waves and water levels.
- http://www.ibwpan.gda.pl/staff/perseusz

Kadri, Faisal
- Affective computing, computational models of human emotion.
- http://www3.sympatico.ca/flkadri/Index.html

Koduru, Praveen
- Memetic algorithms for multiobjective optimization.
- http://www.pkoduru.com

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.cs.cmu.edu/~yqu/

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

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.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/

Lambert, Lynn
- Christopher Newport University. Natural language processing, planning and plan recognition, belief models, negotiation.
- http://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~lambert/

Furcy, David
- University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Heuristic search, planning and re-planning, reinforcement learning.
- http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/furcyd/

Martin, James
- University of Colorado, Boulder. Empirical metaphor research, latent semantic analysis, information retrieval, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with Dan Jurafsky.
- http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/

Swarup, Samarth
- University of Illinois. Cumulative (lifelong, multi-task) learning and evolution of language.
- http://www.uiuc.edu/~swarup

Mamani-Sanchez, Liliana P.
- Instituto Militar de Engenharia - Brasil. Natural language processing, ontologies, semantic web, web-based distance learning.
- http://de9.ime.eb.br/~lpsanchez/

Zillman, Marcus P.
- Creator/Founder BotSpot.com, Executive Director Virtual Private Library
- http://www.zillman.us

de Salvo Braz, Rodrigo
- University of Illinois. First-order probabilistic inference, text entailing, human-computer interaction.
- http://bashful.cs.uiuc.edu/braz/

Carroll, John A.
- University of Sussex. Natural language parsing, acquisition of lexical information from text, automatic generation of text from semantic representations.
- http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/nlp/carroll/

Olier, Ivan
- Technical University of Catalonia. Unsupervised learning, probabilistic neural network, data mining.
- http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~iaolier/

Planes, Jordi
- Escola Universitària Politècnica. Max-SAT, smart cards.
- http://fermat.eps.udl.es/~jordi/

Turney, Peter D.
- Interactive Information Group, National Research Council of Canada. Machine learning applied to natural language processing, lexical semantics from web mining, artificial life.
- http://www.apperceptual.com/

Jacobs, Paul
- Jake Technologies. Natural language processing, research, consulting and entrepreneurship.
- http://www.jaketech.com/pages/4/index.htm

Pizzuti, Stefano
- ENEA. Evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logic based systems, evolutionary neural networks. Application to financial and energy industrial problems.
- http://home.tele2.it/stefanopizzuti/

Dror, Gideon
- Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo. Text categorization, machine learning applications in bioinformatics, medicine, machine vision and high energy physics, feature selection for categorization and regression problems, artificial neural networks.
- http://www2.mta.ac.il/~gideon/

Vasishth, Shravan
- University of Potsdam. Abductive Inference Model, Hindi sentence processing, wide-coverage theories of sentence processing.
- http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/

Peshkin, Leon
- Harvard Medical School. Systems Biology. Baysian information extraction, reinforcement learning, text summarization.
- http://www.csail.mit.edu/~pesha

Pelikan, Martin
- Director of the Missouri Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Laboratory (MEDAL), University of Missouri in St. Louis. Research interests: Evolutionary computation, Bayesian networks, machine learning.
- http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~pelikan/

Guinn, Curry I.
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Natural language processing, spoken dialog systems, conversational agents, affective computing.
- http://people.uncw.edu/guinnc

Robu, Valentin
- Dutch Center for Computer Science. Agents and virtual markets, automated negotiation & auctions, machine learning in stock market prediction.
- http://homepages.cwi.nl/~robu/

Robertson, Neil
- Oxford University. Computer vision, visual surveillance, video annotation.
- http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~nmr/

Honavar, Vasant
- Iowa State University. Machine learning, intelligent agents, information integration, probabilistic models, and bioinformatics and computational biology.
- http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/

Zhuang, Rick
- Pennsylvania State University. Web information retrival, web usage mining, search engines, semantic web.
- http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/z/x/zxz127/

Alam, Shah Jamal
- German Research Center for AI (DFKI). Intelligent tutoring systems, social organizations in MAS, family (Eastern) dynamics.
- http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~alam

Funge, John
- iKuni, Inc. Game AI, machine learning, and knowledge representation.
- http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~funge/

Kochenderfer, Mykel J.
- University of Edinburgh. Autonomous agents, reinforcement learning, teleo-reactive behavior.
- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0341074/

Vyas, Amrish
- University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Intelligent agents in eBusiness, adaptive agents.
- http://userpages.umbc.edu/~amrish1/home.htm

Danescu, Radu
- Technical University of Cluj. Image processing, stereovision, intelligent vehicles.
- http://users.utcluj.ro/~rdanescu

Haller, Susan
- University of Wisconsin - Park. Natural language processing, interactive discourse, text planning, intelligent tutoring systems.
- http://cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller/

Pinheiro da Silva, Paulo
- Stanford University. Explanations for semantic web tasks, semantic web tools and infrastructure, model-based user interfaces, formal specification and verification of interactive systems.
- http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/pp/

Visser, Ubbo
- TZI, University of Bremen. Knowledge representation and processing for the Semantic Web and multiagent systems in dynamic and real time environments.
- http://www.tzi.de/~visser/

Tagliarini, Gene
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Classification of sonar returns, fingerprint matching, image compression, and constraint satisfaction.
- http://people.uncw.edu/tagliarinig/home.htm

Walker, Marilyn A.
- University of Sheffield. Natural language processing, specifically in spoken dialogue systems, machine learning in dialogue, spoken language generation, multimodal human-computer interaction, and evaluation of dialogue systems.
- http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~walker/

Powers, David
- The Flinders University of South Australia. Natural language learning, unsupervised learning, data mining, home automation, web search.
- http://members.dodo.com.au/~powers/

Pennock, David M.
- Yahoo! Research Labs. Electronic commerce, internet statistics, uncertain reasoning, decision theory, market approaches to group coordination, multiagent systems.
- http://dpennock.com/

Geczy, Peter
- RIKEN Brain Science Institute. Neural networks, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, fuzzy logic, rule acquisition, rule extraction from neural networks, Autonomous Connectionistic Engine (ACE), neural network resources.
- http://www.brain.riken.jp/labs/mns/geczy/

Parsons, Lance
- Arizona State University. Data mining, unsupervised learning, bioinformatics.
- http://www.public.asu.edu/~lparsons/

Crow, Dan
- Unicru Inc. Intelligent search engines, machine learning, concept abstraction, adaptive interfaces.
- http://gwernol.com/Research/ResearchInterests.html

Harper, Mary
- Purdue University. National Science Foundation. Integrating natural language and speech processing, prosodic analysis, statistical parsing, gesture and speech.
- http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~harper/

Freeman, Richard
- University of Manchester. Machine learning, knowledge management, data visualization, artificial intelligence and neural networks.
- http://www.rfreeman.net

Sayan, Ömer Fatih
- University of Osnabrück. Emotion recognition, emotive behavior, mental models, unconscious processes, rule- and pattern-based mechanisms.
- http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~osayan/

Roberts, Steve
- Oxford. Robotics Research Group. Machine learning, Bayesian learning, data-driven inference, signal and image processing, bioinformatics, computational and mathematical biology.
- http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~sjrob

Raina, Rajat
- Stanford University. Question answering systems, machine learning, probabilistic models, robotics.
- http://www.stanford.edu/~rajatr

Angele, Jürgen
- Ontoprise. Knowledge engineering, domain and task modeling, ontologies, KARL, MIKE, web portals.
- http://www.ontoprise.de/members/angele/publications.htm

van Delden, Sebastian
- University of Central Florida. Partial parsing, natural language information retrieval systems, learning WordNet-based classification rules.
- http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~sdelden

Chavez, Guillermo Camara
- Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Pattern recognition, invariante pattern recognition, neural networks, image content-base retrieval, digital image processing, computer vision.
- http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~gcamarac

Cortes, Nareli Cruz
- CINVESTAV-IPN. Artificial immune system optimization, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation.
- http://computacion.cs.cinvestav.mx/~nareli

Hayes-Roth, Barbara
- Stanford University. Extempo Systems. Intelligent interactive characters, interactive story telling, adaptive intelligent agents.
- http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/people/bhr/

Lester, James
- North Carolina State University. Intellimedia initiative, animated pedagogical agents, 3D learning environments, natural language generation.
- http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lester/imedia/james.html

Grosz, Barbara
- Harvard University. Collaborative planning, SharedPlans model of collaboration, discourse structure, intonation, centering.
- http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/

McCoy, Kathleen
- University of Delaware. Rehabilitation engineering, writing tool for American Sign Language, natural language generation, text summarization, graph summarization.
- http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mccoy/

Green, Nancy
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Intelligent multimdedia presentation systems, argumentation models, automatic generation of textual summaries of graphs, interactive narrative, conversation agents, user modeling.
- http://www.uncg.edu/~nlgreen/

Bunt, Andrea
- University of British Columbia. User modeling, adaptive interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems.
- http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bunt/

Elliott, Clark
- DePaul University. Affective reasoning, synthetic characters, animated tutoring agents, emotion representation.
- http://condor.depaul.edu/~elliott/

Conati, Cristina
- University of British Columbia. User modeling, emotionally intelligent agents, adaptive user interfaces, Bayesian network student models.
- http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~conati/

Picard, Rosalind
- MIT. Affective computing, texture and pattern modeling, video and image browsing, retrieval and annotation.
- http://web.media.mit.edu/~picard/

Lisetti, Christine
- University of Central Florida. Emotional intelligence, computational models of emotions and affective processes, affective computing.
- http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~lisetti/

Chachra, Sumit
- University of Arizona. Document analysis, biometrics, image retrieval, autonomic computing.
- http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~chachra

Kurban, Rifat
- Erciyes University. Artificial neural networks, speech processing, digital signal processing, speaker recognition, image processing.
- http://www.rifatkurban.name.tr

Taatgen, Niels
- University of Groningen. Cognition, ACT-R, learning rules and productions.
- http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels/

Konieczny, Lars
- Institute of Computer Science and Social Research. Psycholinguistics, sentence comprehension, cognitive parsing, ACT-R.
- http://cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de/team/members/konieczny/konieczny.htm

Tack, Werner H.
- Universität des Saarlandes. ACT-R cognitive modeling.
- http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak5/cmm/tack.htm

Schoppek, Wolfgang
- University of Bayreuth, Bavaria. Cognitive modeling, ACT-R models, causal induction.
- http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/psychologie/schoppek/

Krogt, Roman van der
- Delft University of Technology. PhD Student, Plan repair in multi-agent environments.
- http://roman.vanderkrogt.org

Smith, Ronnie W.
- East Carolina University. Spoken natural language dialog systems, dialog repairs, mixed-initiative, adaptive user interfaces.
- http://www.cs.ecu.edu/~rws/

Miller, Tristan
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management Group. Computational linguistics, automatic summarization, information retrieval, latent semantic analysis, computers and society.
- http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~miller/

Clough, Paul D.
- University of Sheffield. Information retrieval.
- http://ir.shef.ac.uk/cloughie/index.html

van Beek, Peter
- University of Waterloo. Constraint programming, compiler optimization, and scheduling.
- http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/~vanbeek/

Kamvar, Sepandar
- Stanford University. Probabilistic models in information retrieval, information extraction, and supervised and unsupervised learning.
- http://www.stanford.edu/~sdkamvar/research.html

Kulbacki, Marek
- Polish Academy of Sciences. Vulcan. Machine Learning, realistic human motion modeling.
- http://mka.vulcan.pl

Musick, Ron
- iKuni Inc. Automated induction, machine learning, and scientific data management.
- http://home.comcast.net/~crmusick/

Quattoni, Ariadna
- Mount Holyoke. Synthesizing vision, language, and learning. Natural language interfaces to vision.
- http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ajquatto/research/

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/

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

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

Strens, Malcolm
- QinetiQ. Reinforcement learning and image target tracking.
- http://strens.com

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

Biermann, Alan W.
- Duke University. Computational linguistics, automatic programming and inference.
- http://www.cs.duke.edu/~awb

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/

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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