Koenig, Sven - University of Southern California. Decision making, situated agents, distributed agents. Carroll, John A. - University of Sussex. Natural language parsing, acquisition of lexical information from text, automatic generation of text from semantic representations. Lambert, Lynn - Christopher Newport University. Natural language processing, planning and plan recognition, belief models, negotiation. Liu, Hugo - MIT Media Laboratory. Philosophically motivated AI, commonsense reasoning, aesthetics and AI, assistive software agents, lexical semantics, story understanding. Norvig, Peter - Artificial Intelligence, natural language, Lisp and Java in AI. Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center. Guvenir, H. Altay - Bilkent University. Machine learning, data mining, and computer-aided language learning. Harmelen, Frank van - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Approximate reasoning, medical protocols, semantic web, specification languages for KBS. 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. Frasconi, Paolo - Università di Firenze. Machine learning for sequential and structured data, bioinformatics, text and natural language, pattern recognition. Bacchus, Fahiem - University of Toronto. Planning systems, temporal logic, constraint satisfaction problems and formal models. Blum, Avrim - Carnegie Mellon University. Interests include machine learning, approximation algorithms, on-line algorithms and planning systems. Online publications and talks. 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. Saffiotti, Alessandro - Head of the mobile robotics lab at Orebro University, Sweden. Research area: integration of cognition and physical embedding in autonomous robots. Hoos, Holger H. - University of British Columbia. Preference elicitation, dynamic constraint optimization, satisfiability problems in propositional logic, computational musicology. Teuscher, Christof - C.V., list of awards, publications, memberships, projects, and conferences. Interests in neural networks. Dorigo, Marco - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Research projects in Ant algorithms, metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization, robot shaping and behavior engineering. 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. Allen, James F. - University of Rochester. Natural language understanding, discourse, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning and planning. Brachman, Ron - Director of the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) at DARPA. Knowledge representation, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing. Delord, Christophe - ENSEEIHT, France, Computer Science engineer, Artificial Intelligence (dialogue simulation, speech acts, PROLOG), Python, lexical and syntactic parsing. Szalas, Andrzej - College of Economics and Computer Science, Olsztyn, Poland. Unmanned aerial vehicles. Autonomous systems. 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. 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. Nebel, Bernhard - Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. Professor. Knowledge representation, planning, and robotics, with an emphasis on robotic soccer. Biermann, Alan W. - Duke University. Computational linguistics, automatic programming and inference. Jacob, Rob - Tufts University. Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces, virtual environments, eye-gaze tracking. Forbus, Kenneth - Northwestern University. Qualitative physics, spatial reasoning, cognitive simulation of analogical processing. 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. 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. 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. Novick, David - University of Texas at El Paso. Department of Computer Science Chair. Spoken dialog models, mediated communication, user interface development methodologies. Manning, Christopher - Stanford University. Probabilistic parsing, grammar induction, text categorization and clustering, electronic dictionaries, information extraction and presentation, and linguistic typology. 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. Bahlmann, Claus - Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, On-line handwriting recognition. Clough, Paul D. - University of Sheffield. Information retrieval. Smith, Ronnie W. - East Carolina University. Spoken natural language dialog systems, dialog repairs, mixed-initiative, adaptive user interfaces. Tack, Werner H. - Universität des Saarlandes. ACT-R cognitive modeling. Taatgen, Niels - University of Groningen. Cognition, ACT-R, learning rules and productions. Picard, Rosalind - MIT. Affective computing, texture and pattern modeling, video and image browsing, retrieval and annotation. Conati, Cristina - University of British Columbia. User modeling, emotionally intelligent agents, adaptive user interfaces, Bayesian network student models. Green, Nancy - University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Intelligent multimedia presentation systems, argumentation models, automatic generation of textual summaries of graphs, interactive narrative, conversation agents, user modeling. McCoy, Kathleen - University of Delaware. Rehabilitation engineering, writing tool for American Sign Language, natural language generation, text summarization, graph summarization. Cortes, Nareli Cruz - CINVESTAV-IPN. Artificial immune system optimization, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation. Roberts, Steve - Oxford. Robotics Research Group. Machine learning, Bayesian learning, data-driven inference, signal and image processing, bioinformatics, computational and mathematical biology. 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. Pennock, David M. - Yahoo! Research Labs. Electronic commerce, internet statistics, uncertain reasoning, decision theory, market approaches to group coordination, multiagent systems. Powers, David - The Flinders University of South Australia. Natural language learning, unsupervised learning, data mining, home automation, web search. Tagliarini, Gene - University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Classification of sonar returns, fingerprint matching, image compression, and constraint satisfaction. Danescu, Radu - Technical University of Cluj. Image processing, stereovision, intelligent vehicles. Vyas, Amrish - University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Intelligent agents in eBusiness, adaptive agents. Guinn, Curry I. - University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Natural language processing, spoken dialog systems, conversational agents, affective computing. Vasishth, Shravan - University of Potsdam. Abductive Inference Model, Hindi sentence processing, wide-coverage theories of sentence processing. 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. 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. Martin, James - University of Colorado, Boulder. Empirical metaphor research, latent semantic analysis, information retrieval, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with Dan Jurafsky. Furcy, David - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Heuristic search, planning and re-planning, reinforcement learning. Rudnicky, Alex - Carnegie Mellon University. Speech recognition, CMU Communicator, dialog systems, speech agents. 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. Kadri, Faisal - Affective computing, computational models of human emotion. 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. 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. Katirai, Hooman - MIT / Harvard. Machine learning applied to medicine, eHealth, and Electronic Medical Records (EHR) and Patient Health Records. Reitter, David - University of Edinburgh. Multimodal systems, natural language generation, structural priming/alignment in dialogue, rhetorical analysis. Terveen, Loren - University of Minnesota. Computer-mediated communication, social data mining, computer-supported cooperative work, recommender system. Beal, Matthew J. - University at Buffalo, SUNY. Nonparamtric Bayes, bioinformatics, HMMs, probablisitic sensor fusion. Galassi, Ugo - University of Eastern Piedmont. User profiling, hierarchical HMMs, learning regular expressions. Pietruszkiewicz, Wieslaw - Szczecin Technical University (Poland). Machine learning and knowledge (data) mining, optimal (kalman) filtering, expert and decision support systems. Alkhalifa, Eshaa - University of Bahrain. Multimedia adaptable intelligent tutoring systems, student modeling, cognitive style. Cer, Daniel - University of Colorado - Boulder. Acoustic and lexical features of emphatic speech. Ketter, Wolfgang - University of Minnesota. Computer science and economics, multiagent systems, automated negotiation and contracting. Popple, James - Australian National University. Legal expert systems. Tunstall-Pedoe, William - Cambridge, England. Cryptic crossword solving; anagrams; search; computer chess; knowledge representation. 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. Chiang, Yao-Yi - Geosemble Technologies. Computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, geospatial information integration. Goel, Ashok K. - Georgia Tech. Knowledge-based reasoning and learning, design cognition and computing, creativity, self-adaptation. Carreras, Xavier - Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, PhD student, machine learning, natural language processing. Carpenter, Julie - University of Washington (Educational Psychology/Learning Sciences/LIFE Center). Human-robot attachment; robot-human interaction in stressful conditions, especially in dyad teamwork or collaborative situations. Fournier-Viger, Philippe - University of Quebec at Montreal. Learning objects, cognitive modelling, virtual learning environments and intelligent tutoring systems. 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. Dorst, Leo - University of Amsterdam. Applications of geometric (Clifford) algebra, exploration, reasoning with uncertainty in robotics. Staab, Steffen - Research topics: semantic web, knowledge management, and natural language processing. List of his publications, projects, courses taught, contact information. Lisetti, Christine - Florida International University. Emotional intelligence, computational models of emotions and affective processes, affective computing. Airoldi, Edoardo - Harvard University. Statistical and computational elements for the analysis of complex graphs and interacting dynamical systems, including yeast molecular biology and social networks. Overview of publications and activities. Swarup, Samarth - Virginia Tech. Cumulative (lifelong, multi-task) learning and evolution of language. Roweis, Sam - University of Toronto. Researcher in pattern recognition, neural networks, artificial intelligence. Traum, David R. - USC Institute for Creative Technology. Discourse structure. Grounding in discourse. Dialog and virtual reality agents. Moore, Johanna D. - University of Edinburgh. Computational modeling of tutorial dialogue, multimedia explanation, integrated techniques for interpretation and generation, patient education. 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. Hearst, Marti - University of California at Berkeley. Data mining, information retrieval, user interfaces, web search. Horvitz, Eric - Microsoft Research. Decision theory, reasoning systems, user modeling, reasoning under uncertainty. Littman, Michael - Rutgers. Planning under uncertainty, markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, latent semantic indexing, text retrieval. Wilks, Yorick - University of Sheffield. Computational pragmatics, belief modeling, lexicons, information extraction. Cassell, Justine - Carnegie Mellon University. Gesture and narrative language, animated agents, intonation, facial expression, computer vision. Mitrovic, Nikola - University of Zaragoza. Ph.D. student. Mobile agents, intelligent user interfaces, adaptive user interfaces, mobile applications. Gini, Maria - University of Minnesota. Distributed intelligence, cooperation of miniature robots, robot navigation, multi-agent systems for e-commerce and supply-chain, economic agents. Elliott, Clark - DePaul University. Affective reasoning, synthetic characters, animated tutoring agents, emotion representation. 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. Raina, Rajat - Stanford University. Question answering systems, machine learning, probabilistic models, robotics. Funge, John - iKuni, Inc. Game AI, machine learning, and knowledge representation. Zillman, Marcus P. - Creator/Founder BotSpot.com, Executive Director Virtual Private Library Monz, Christof - Research interests: Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Automated Deduction. Site lists on-line publications, projects, activities, and contact info. Schütze, Hinrich - Stanford University. Statistical NLP, text mining, Co-author of "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" with Christopher Manning. 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. Honavar, Vasant - Does research on machine learning, knowledge representation, data mining, big data, information integration, probabilistic models, bioinformatics, social informatics, and health informatics. Krogt, Roman van der - Post-doctoral researcher at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C). Working on multiagent planning methods as well as scheduling for manufacturing. Zytnicki, Matthias - INRA Toulouse. Bioinformatics, weighted constraint satisfaction problems, non-coding RNAs. Grasso, Floriana - University of Liverpool. Computational models of natural argument, affective natural language generation, conflict resolution.