Dana S. Nau
| Dana S. Nau | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 1951 Illinois |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence |
| Institutions | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Alma mater |
Duke University - Ph.D., 1979 University of Missouri-Rolla - B.S., 1974 |
| Known for | automated planning and scheduling, HTN planning, game tree pathology |
Dana S. Nau is a Professor of Computer Science and Systems Research at the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science in College Park, where he has done research in automated planning and scheduling, game theory, cognitive science, and computer-aided engineering. He has many PHD students, including Qiang Yang who graduated in 1989. He has more than 300 publications[1] and several best-paper awards. Some of his accomplishments include the discovery of game tree pathology,[2] the development of the SHOP and SHOP2[3] HTN planning systems, and the book Automated Planning: Theory and Practice (ISBN 1-55860-856-7).[4] He is a Fellow[5] of the AAAI.
Honors
- 1996 – Fellow, AAAI
- 2013 – Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[6]
References
- ↑ http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/publications.html
- ↑ Nau, Dana (1982). "An investigation of the causes of pathology in games". Artificial Intelligence 19 (3): 257–278. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(82)90002-9.
- ↑ http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/shop/
- ↑ http://www.laas.fr/planning
- ↑ http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php
- ↑ ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Transforming Science and Society, Association for Computing Machinery, accessed 2013-12-10.
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, April 20, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.