Biography:Henry Kautz
Henry A. Kautz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1956 (age 67–68) Youngstown, Ohio |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester (PhD 1987) University of Toronto (MS 1982) Johns Hopkins University (MA 1980) Cornell University (AB 1978) Case Institute of Technology (1974-1975) |
| Awards | IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1989) AAAI Fellow (1997) [1] AAAS Fellow (2006) [2] ACM Fellow (2013) [3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial Intelligence Data science Pervasive Computing |
| Institutions | University of Rochester Kodak Research Laboratories University of Washington AT&T Laboratories Bell Labs |
| Thesis | A Formal Theory of Plan Recognition. (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | James F. Allen |
| Other academic advisors | C. Raymond Perrault (master supervisor) |
| Website | www |
Henry A. Kautz (born 1956) is a computer scientist, Founding Director of Institute for Data Science and Professor at University of Rochester. He is interested in knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, data science and pervasive computing.[4]
Biography
Kautz was born in 1956 in Youngstown, Ohio.[5]
Kautz entered the Case Institute of Technology in 1974, then a year later, transferred to Cornell University and got his B.A. in English and in mathematics in 1978 there.[5] He wrote plays during a one-year fellowship creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University and got an M.A. by the Writing Seminars in 1980.[5] As a foreign student supported by the Connaught Fellowship, he enrolled at University of Toronto in 1980.[5] Kautz completed his master thesis A First-Order Dynamic Logic for Planning under the supervision of C. Raymond Perrault, and then received his M.S. in computer science in 1982.[5] Before receiving his Ph.D. from University of Rochester in 1987 he was a teaching assistant for Patrick Hayes and a teaching assistant and research assistant for his thesis advisor James F. Allen.[5] His PhD thesis was titled A Formal Theory of Plan Recognition (1987).[5][6]
Kautz was a professor of Computer Science at University of Washington (2000-2006) after worked at AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Laboratories. He is now[when?] Professor at University of Rochester and Founding Director of Institute for Data Science after worked as a director of Intelligent Systems at Kodak Research Laboratories (2006-2007).[7]
Selected works
Kautz works on wide areas ranging from planning, knowledge representation and artificial Intelligence to data mining, human computation and crowdsourcing, ubiquitous computing, wearable computers, assistive technology and health.[8]
Books
- 1991. Reasoning About Plans. (with James F. Allen, R. Pelavin, and J. Tenenberg) Morgan Kaufmann, 1991. ISBN:978-1493306138
Articles
- 2013. 10-Year Impact Award ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
- 2013. Notable Paper First AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP)
- 2012. Best Paper Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
- 2005. Best Paper IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC)
- 2004 & 2006. 1st Place ICAPS Planning Competition (Optimal Track)
- 1996 & 2004. Best Paper Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- 1993 & 2012. Notable Paper Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- 1989. Best Paper International Conference on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KRR)
- 1988. Best Paper Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI)
Patent
- 1993. Optimization of Information Bases. US patent issued November 1993
- 1997. Mechanism for Constraint Satisfaction. US patent issued June 1997
- 1997. Message Filtering Techniques. US patent issued April 1997
AI Limericks
Henry Kautz created limericks on AI, which can be seen here (retrieved January 14 2015).
Awards and honors
- the premier award for artificial intelligence researchers under the age of 35.
- "For contributions to many areas of artificial intelligence, from plan recognition to knowledge representation to software agents."
- "For contributions to artificial intelligence and pervasive computing with applications to assistive technology and health."
- 2013. 10-Year Impact Award of ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.
- 2018. ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award.
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