Paul R. Cohen, Professor of Computer Science

EDUCATION Ph.D. Computer Science and Psychology, Stanford University 1983
M.A. Psychology, Univ. of California, Los Angeles 1978
B.A. Psychology, Univ. of California, San Diego 1977
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1995 - present:

Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

1993 - 1996:

Director, Computer Science Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

1989 - 1995:

Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Massachustts, Amherst, MA.

1989 - 1993:

Visiting Associate Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Darmouth College, Hanover, NH.

1983 - 1989:

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

1983 - present:

Director, Experimental Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Dawn E. Gregory and Paul R. Cohen. January 1997. Intelligent Assistance for Computational Scientists: Integrated Modelling, Experimentation, and Analysis. To appear in Preliminary Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. Ft. Lauderdale.
2. Paul R. Cohen, Marc S. Atkin, Tim Oates, and Carole R. Beal. 1996. Neo: Learning Conceptual Knowledge by Sensorimotor Interaction with an Environment. To appear in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents.
3. Marc S. Atkin, and Paul R. Cohen. 1996. Monitoring Strategies for Embedded Agents. In Journal of Adaptive Behavior, Volume 4, Issue 2.
4. Paul R. Cohen, Tim Oates and Marc S. Atkin. 1996. Preliminary Evidence that Conceptual Structure Can Be Learned by Interacting with an Environment. To appear in Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Embodied Cognition and Action.
5. Paul R. Cohen, Tim Oates, Marc S. Atkin, and Carole R. Beal. 1996. Building a Baby. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, L. Erlbaum, pp. 518-522.
6. Tim Oates and Paul R. Cohen. 1996. Searching for Planning Operators with Context-Dependent and Probabilistic Effects. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Press. pp. 863-868.
7. Tim Oates and Paul R. Cohen. 1996. Searching for structure in multiple streams. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, Morgan Kaufman, Inc., pp. 346-354.
8. Robert St. Amant and Paul R. Cohen. 1996. A Planner for Exploratory Data Analysis. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-96). AAAI Press. pp. 205-212.
9. Paul R. Cohen. Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence. MIT Press, 1995.
10. Paul R. Cohen, Marc S. Atkin, Tim Oates, and Dawn E. Gregory. 1995. A Representation and Learning Mechanisms for Mental States. In Working Notes of the Symposium on Representing Mental States and Mechanisms, AAAI-95 Spring Symposium Series, pp. 15-21.

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