AI: Trends and Directions Stuart C. Shapiro Professor, CSE Affiliated Professor, Linguistics, Philosophy Director, SNePS Research Group ACM Distinguished Scientist Fellow, AAAI CSE Alumni Symposium April 25, 2009
Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro 2 Cognitive Architectures Architectures for Integrated AI Systems Robots
Alumni Symposium S.C. Shapiro 3 KL (SNePS) PMLa PMLb PMLc SAL Mind Body Independent of lower-body implementation Hearing Vision Motion Speech WORLDWORLD I/P s o c k e t s MGLAIR Agent Architecture Dependent on lower-body implementation Proprioception
Cassie, the FEVAHR (Foveal ExtraVehicular Activity Helper-Retriever) Alumni Symposium 4 [Supported by NASA, ]
S.C. Shapiro FEVAHR/Cassie in the Lab Alumni Symposium 5
S.C. Shapiro Who am I? I talked to Stu and I am talking to you. Your name is ‘Bill’ and you are a person. Who are you? I am the FEVAHR and my name is ‘Cassie’. Who have you talked to? NL Capable Robots Showing Self-Awareness & Deixis Alumni Symposium 6
Recognizing Indistinguishable Objects
Alumni Symposium 8 : perform get(gold) No breeze here. No stench here. Exploring the cave... Found a safe room... Wumpus World Agent [Shapiro & Kandefer, IJCAI-05 Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, & Change]
GLAIR Agents in Intermedia Performances Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro 9 As part of UB’s Intermedia Performance Studio Supported by: UB IRCAF, UB IRDF, Robert and Carol Morris Fund for Artistic Expression and Performing Arts,
Patofil and Filopat from “The Trial, The Trail” A VR drama by Josephine Anstey et al. Alumni Symposium 10 [Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) 2005]
Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro 11 [E-Poetry Symposium, Buffalo, NY, April 1, 2006] The Trial The Trail & Human Trials
Lights/Rats Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro 12 [365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, Week 24, Buffalo, NY, April, 26-27, 2007]
Workers of the World Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro 13 [Buiffalo Infringement Festival, 2008 Maker Faire, Travis County, TX, 2008]
WoyUbu, “Dramaturgs” Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro 14 [Buffalo, NY, March, 2009]
WoyUbu, “Robot War” Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro 15
WoyUbu, “The Bear” Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro 16
Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro KL (SNePS) PMLa PMLb MGLAIR For Data Fusion Data Sources
Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro KL (SNePS) PMLa PMLb Contextual Reasoning About Small Boat Threats Context-Based IR [Supported by ONR, 2008]
Alumni Symposium KL (SNePS) PMLa PMLb Medical Ontology Reasoning [Supported by the John R. Oishei Foundation, ] RTS, FMA, SNOMED, OBO, …
Alumni Symposium 20 Ontologies with Multiple Hierarchical Relations
SNeRG: Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro 21 Prof. Stuart C. Shapiro, CSE, DirectorAhmed Hassan, CSE Prof. William J. Rapaport, CSE, Assoc. Dir.Paul Heider, LIN Prof. Josephine Anstey, DMSFrances L. Johnson, CSE PhD'06 Prof. Carl Alphonse, CSEMike Kandefer, CSE Prof. Debra Burhans, CS, Canisius Coll.Asish Kulkarni, CSE Dr. Albert Goldfain, Blue Highway, LLCMadhumitha Nagarajan, CSE MS'08 Prof. Jean-Pierre A. Koenig, LINRoelant Ossewaarde, LIN Prof. David Pierce, CSEYana Petrova, LIN Shane Axtell, CL MS ‘07Mike Prentice, CSE Chris Becker, CLJohn F. Santore, CSE PhD'05 Jon Bona, CSEVishwac Sena, CSE Dima Dligach, CSEScott Settembre, CSE Trupti Devdas Nayak, CSE MS'05A. Patrice Seyed, CSE Albert Goldfain, CSE PhD'08Andy Wetta, LIN
Alumni SymposiumS.C. Shapiro 22 For More Information SNePS Research Group: