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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.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Cohen's primary research interests over the last five years have
focused on empirical methods, the development of conceptual structure from
sensorimotor interaction, campaign planning, simulation, and machine
learning.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- 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.
- 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.
- Marc S. Atkin, and Paul R. Cohen. 1996. Monitoring Strategies for
Embedded Agents. In Journal of Adaptive Behavior, Volume 4,
Issue 2.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Paul R. Cohen. Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence.
MIT Press, 1995.
- 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.
COLLEAGUES/RECENT COLLABORATORS
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