Professor Benjamin Kuipers
Benjamin
Kuipers, Ph.D., FAAAI, FIEEE, FAAAS joined the University of
Michigan in January 2009 as Professor of
Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to that, he held an endowed
Professorship in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
He earned his B.A. from Swarthmore College, and his Ph.D. from MIT.
Ben investigates the representation of commonsense and expert knowledge,
with particular emphasis on the effective use of incomplete knowledge.
His research accomplishments include developing the TOUR model of
spatial knowledge in the cognitive map, the QSIM algorithm for
qualitative simulation, the Algernon system for knowledge
representation, and the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy model of knowledge
for robot exploration and mapping. He has served as Department Chair at
UT Austin, and is a Fellow of AAAI, IEEE, and AAAS.
He authored
Qualitative Reasoning: Modeling and Simulation with Incomplete Knowledge,
Qualitative Simulation,
Modeling Spatial Knowledge,
The Spatial Semantic Hierarchy,
Commonsense reasoning about causality: deriving behavior from structure,
The “map in the head” metaphor, and
Toward Bootstrap Learning of the Foundations of Commonsense Knowledge,
and coauthored
A robot exploration and mapping strategy based on a semantic hierarchy of spatial representations,
Navigation and mapping in large scale space,
Causal reasoning in medicine: analysis of a protocol, and
Model-Based Monitoring of Dynamic Systems.
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