Tim%upenn.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (08/15/84)
From: Tim Finin <Tim%upenn.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
THE CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE in the Department of Computer
and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania has received
a major award from the U.S. Army Research Office for research and
education in Artificial Intelligence.
The award is for $7.2 million together with a supplementary DOD-URIP
award of $500,000, a total of $7.7 million over a period of five years.
The award will support faculty and technical staff and provide graduate
research fellowships and research equipment. The contract is from the
Electronics Division of the Army Research Office under the direction
of Dr. Jimmie Suttle.
Principle Investigator for the grant is Professor Aravind K. Joshi and
co-Principle Investigators are Professors Norman Badler, Ruzena Bajcsy,
Peter Buneman, and Bonnie Webber.
Pennsylvania's CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is located in the
Department of Computer and Information Science but includes members from the
departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Linguistics,
Philosophy and Psychology as well as the Wharton School and the School of
Medicine. Primary research interests include natural language processing,
flexible communication with knowledge bases, programming languages and
knowledge bases, automated reasoning and expert systems, computer
interaction in three dimensions, interaction of visual and tactile
information, robotics, analysis and synthesis of motion, computer graphics
and animation, computational logic, and the design of languages for
representing and manipulating knowledge.
The CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE has been the recipient of
several other major grants recently, including an NSF Coordinated
Experimental Research grant ($3.8 million for five years), an IBM grant
for new ventures in Computer Science ($1 million), a Sloan Foundation
grant for Cognitive Science ($1.0 million), an Air Force Office of
Reseach grant for Query Driven Vision System ($1 million), a grant from
NASA for Human Body Motion Modelling ($800,000), and several grants
from the NSF Intelligent Systems Division.
Students interested in applying for graduate admission should write to:
Professor Peter Buneman, Graduate Group Chair
Department of Computer and Information Science,
The Moore School
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Inquiries concerning faculty positions (regular and visiting) and research
staff positions should be directed to Professor Aravind K. Joshi at the same
address as above.