nickcassimatis@gmail.com
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 Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject: JOB: Research programmer and postdoc positions at RPI |
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I have funding for a postdoc and research programmer in the Human-
Level Intelligence Laboratory at the Rensselaer Department of
Cognitive Science. There is a little flexibility in the start date,
but sooner is better.
The position involve working on one of the following projects:
1. We are studying how to adapt general-purpose inference approaches
such as SAT solving and inference in probabilistic graphical models
for larger, real-world problems. We are creating extensions to these
algorithms to deal with time, equality, object parts, first-order
relations, etc. This approach enables solutions to hard problems in
language parsing, SLAM, object tracking, motion planning and human
intention recognition. The goal is to find a relatively small set of
extensions that enable reasoning in a wide array of domains. The
following articles motivate this approach:
N.L. Cassimatis (2006). A Cognitive Substrate for Human-Level
Intelligence. AI Magazine. Volume 27 Number 2.
N. L. Cassimatis et al. (2007). An Architecture for Adaptive
Algorithmic Hybrids. In Proceedings of AAAI-07.
2. We are developing a question-answering system the combines
reasoning about the world, reasoning about people>s intentions and
sentence parsing. The goal is to be able to ask a system a specific
question and get a specific answer instead of a long list of search
results. The project needs people interested and knowledgeable in
computational linguistics, human-language grammar, pragmatics and/or
automated inference techniques.
If you are interested in this position, please respond at this
address.
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