AAAI–97 / IAAI–97 Program Committees
AAAI-97 Program Cochairs
AAAI-97 Senior Program Committee
Benjamin J. Kuipers, University of Texas at Austin
Bonnie Webber, University of Pennsylvania
Richard Belew, University of California, San Diego
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University
Piero P. Bonissone, General Electric Corporate Research &
Development
Christopher M. Brown, University of Rochester
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware
James Crawford, i2 Technologies
Robert Engelmore, Stanford University
Susan L. Epstein, Hunter College
David W. Etherington, University of Oregon
Richard Fikes, Stanford University
Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Ken Forbus, Northwestern University
Stephen J. Hanson, Rutgers University
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research
Craig A. Knoblock, University of Southern California
Kurt Konolige, SRI International
Pat Langley, Daimler-Benz Research & Technology Center
Steve Minton, University of Southern California
Leora Morgenstern, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Karen L. Myers, SRI International
David Poole, University of British Columbia
Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin
Yves Schabes, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Howard Shrobe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Candy Sidner, Lotus Development Corporation
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan
AAAI-97 Associate Chair
Ramesh Patil, University of Southern California / Information
Sciences Institute
IAAI-97 Conference Chair
Ted Senator, National Association of Securities Dealers
IAAI-97 Conference Cochair
Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh
Hall of Champions Chair
Matthew L. Ginsberg, CIRL/University of Oregon
Robot Building Laboratory Chair
David Miller, KISS Institute for Practical Robotics
Robot Competition Chair
Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Student Abstract and Poster Chair
Polly K. Pook, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AAAI-97 Program Committee
Tutorial Cochairs
Bart Selman, ATT Laboratories
Brian C. Williams, NASA Ames Research Center
Workshop Chair
Raymond C. Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral Consortium Organizers
Vibhu O. Mittal, University of Pittsburgh
Loren G. Terveen, AT&T Research
David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory
Douglas E. Appelt, SRI International
Ron Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lars Asker, California Institute of Technology/JPL
Fahiem Bacchus, University of Waterloo
Chitta Baral, University of Texas at El Paso
Hamid R. Berenji, IIS CORP/NASA Ames Research Center
Pete Bonasso, Texas Robotics & Automation Center
Craig Boutilier, University of British Columbia
Liz Bradley, University of Colorado
Marco Cadoli, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza"
Claire Cardie, Cornell University
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Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland
Luca Chittaro, Universitá di Udine
Dan Clancy, University of Texas
Peter Clark, The Boeing Company
Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts
Gregory Cooper, University of Pittsburgh
Gary Cottrell, University of California, San Diego
Bruce D'Ambrosio, Oregon State University
Adnan Darwiche, American University of Beirut
Ernie Davis, New York University
Peter Dayan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keith Decker, University of Delaware
Dennis DeCoste, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Barbara M. Di Eugenio, University of Pittsburgh
Pedro Domingos, University of California, Irvine
Richard Doyle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Denise Draper, Rockwell Science Center
Didier Dubois, IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier
Edmund Durfee, University of Michigan
Tom Ellman, Rutgers University
Francesc Esteva, IIIA-AI Research Institute, CSIC
Brian Falkenhainer, Wilson Center
Adam Farquhar, Stanford University
George Ferguson, University of Rochester
R. James Firby, University of Chicago
Margaret Fleck, University of Iowa
Eugene C. Freuder, University of New Hampshire
Nir Friedman, University of California
Hector Geffner, Universidad Simon Bolivar
Jack Gelfand, Princeton University
Yolanda Gil, USC/Information Sciences Institute
Matthew L. Ginsberg, University of Oregon
Attilio Giordana, University of Torino
Janice Glasgow, Queen's University
Ashok K. Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Moises Goldszmidt, SRI International
Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California
Adam Grove, NEC Researach Institute
Larry Hall, University of South Florida
Joe Halpern, Cornell University
Inman Harvey, University of Sussex
Caroline Hayes, University of Illinois
Marti Hearst, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
James Hendler, University of Maryland
Tad Hogg, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Robert Holte, University of Ottawa
John Hooker, Carnegie Mellon University
John Horty, University of Maryland
Adele Howe, Colorado State University
Marcus J. Huber, Orincon Corporation
Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina
Wayne Iba, Institute for the Study of Learning & Expertise
Mark Johnson, Brown University
Randolph Jones, University of Michigan
David Joslin, University of Oregon
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University
G. Neelakantan Kartha, i2 Technologies
Michelle Kim, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratory
Daphne Koller, Stanford University
Dave Kortenkamp, Metrica Inc Robotics & Automation
Group
Jana Kosecka, University of California, Berkeley
Sarit Kraus, Bar Ilan University and University of Maryland
Franz Kurfess, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Robert Laddaga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Artificial Intelligence Lab
John Laird, University of Michigan
Reza Langari, Texas A&M University
Nancy Lehrer, ISX Corporation
James Lester, North Carolina State University
Alon Levy, AT&T Laboratories
Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin
Jim Little, University of British Columbia
Karen E. Lochbaum, U S WEST Advanced Technologies
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, IIIA-AI Research Institute, CSIC
Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins APL
Kathleen F. McCoy, University of Delaware
Donald P. McKay, Lockheed Martin
Susan McRoy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute
Ray Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Mike Mozer, University of Colorado
Robin R. Murphy, Colorado School of Mines
Nicola Muscettola, NASA Ames Research Center
Mark Musen, Stanford University School of Medicine
Robert A. Nado, Price Waterhouse Technology Centre
Dana Nau, University of Maryland
P. Pandurang Nayak, NASA Ames Research Center
Bernard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Peter Norvig, Junglee Corporation
David G. Novick, Eurisco
Yun Peng, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Mark Alan Peot, Knowledge Industries
Fernando Pereira, AT&T Laboratories-Research
Greg Provan, Rockwell Science Center
Rajesh P.N. Rao, University of Rochester
Jeff Rickel, USC/Information Sciences Institute
Nicolas Rouqette, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Enrique H. Ruspini, SRI International
Tuomas Sandholm, Washington University
Ethan Scarl, Boeing Defense and Space
Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta
Torsten Schaub, LERIA, Universite d'Angers
Donia R. Scott, University of Brighton
Bart Selman, AT&T
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Steven Shafer, Microsoft Corporation
Murray Shanahan, Queen Mary and Westfield College
Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University
Wolfgang Slany, Technische Universitaet Wien
David E. Smith, Rockwell Science Center
Stephen F. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Edward Stabler, University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas F. Stahovich, Carnegie Mellon University
Ron Sun, University of Alabama
Richard S. Sutton, University of Massachusetts
Bill Swartout, USC/Information Sciences Institute
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University
Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University
Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Loren Terveen, AT&T Laboratories
Gerald Tesauro, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Daniele Theseider Dupré, Universita' di Torino
William B. Thompson, University of Utah
Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University
Geoff Towell, Siemens Corporate Research
John K. Tsotsos, University of Toronto
Jeff Van Baalen, University of Wyoming
Peter van Beek, University of Alberta
Richard Waldinger, SRI International
Richard Washington, CRIN-CNRS&INRIA-Lorraine
Takashi Washio, Osaka University
Darrell Whitley, Colorado State University
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Newcastle
Kent Wittenburg, GTE Laboratories
Michael Wolverton, SRI International
Yang Xiang, University of Regina
Qiang Yang, Simon Fraser University
David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University
Nevin Lianwen Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science &
Technology
Feng Zhao, Ohio State University
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University
Monte Zweben, PeopleSoft
Jan M. Zytkow, Wichita State University
Yannis Dimopoulos
Roger Evans
Helene Fargier
Pere Garcia
Meirav Hadad
Tony Hartley
Andreas Herzig
Laurie Ihrig
Phillip Johnson-Laird
Andreas Junghanns
Jana Koehler
Philippe Laborie
Eric Lambrecht
Jerome Lang
Xiaomin Li
Sean Luke
Joel Martin
Pedro Meseguer
Stefano Monti
Hiroshi Motoda
Aske Plaat
David Pynadath
Jochen Renz
Marie-Christine Rousset
Christer Samuelsson
Orna Schechter
Rina Schwartz
Onn Shehory
John Slaney
Biplav Srivastava
Reinhard Stolle
Tomas Uribe
Dan Weld
Geoff Zweig
IAAI-97 Program Committee
Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh
Steve Cross, Carnegie Mellon University
Philip Klahr, Inference Corporation
Alain Rappaport, Neuron Data
Charles Rosenberg, IS Robotics
Ted Senator, National Association of Securities Dealers
Howard E. Shrobe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reid Smith, Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Marilyn Walker, ATT Laboratories
AAAI-97 Auxiliary Reviewers
John Mark Agosta
Constantin Aliferis
Sean Argamon (Engelson)
Christopher Bailey-Kellogg
William Bares
Philippe Besnard
Nikolaj Bjorner
Yngvi Bjornsson
Jack Breese
Charles Callaway
John Crossley
Esther David
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