People

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. Interests include machine learning, approximation algorithms, on-line algorithms and planning systems. Calvin, William H. – Theoretical neurophysiologist and author of "The Cerebral Code", and "How Brains Think". Gesture and narrative language, animated agents, intonation, facial expression, computer vision. Intersection of computer science and game theory, computer science and economics, multiagent systems, automated negotiation and contracting.