Henry Kautz

Henry A. Kautz
Born 1956 (age 59–60)
Youngstown, Ohio
Residence Rochester, NY
Fields Artificial Intelligence
Data science
Pervasive Computing
Institutions University of Rochester
Kodak Research Laboratories
University of Washington
AT&T Laboratories
Bell Labs
Alma mater University of Rochester (PhD 1987)
University of Toronto (MS 1982)
Johns Hopkins University (MA 1980)
Cornell University (AB 1978)
Case Institute of Technology (1974-1975)
Thesis A Formal Theory of Plan Recognition. (1987)
Doctoral advisor James F. Allen
Other academic advisors C. Raymond Perrault (master supervisor)
Doctoral students Ashish Sabharwal
Notable awards IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1989)
AAAI Fellow (1997) [1] AAAS Fellow (2006) [2]
ACM Fellow (2013) [3]
Website
www.cs.rochester.edu/u/kautz/

Henry A. Kautz (born 1956) is a computer scientist, Founding Director of Institute for Data Science and Professor at University of Rochester. He is interested in knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, data science and pervasive computing.[4]

Biography

Kautz was born in 1956 in Youngstown, Ohio.

Kautz entered the Case Institute of Technology in 1974, then a year later, transferred to Cornell University and got his B.A. in English and in mathematics with highest honors in 1978 there. He wrote plays during a one-year fellowship to writing program at Johns Hopkins University and got an M.A. by the Writing Seminars in 1980. As a foreign student supported by the Connaught Fellowship, he enrolled at University of Toronto in 1980. Kautz completed his master thesis A First-Order Dynamic Logic for Planning under the supervision of C. Raymond Perrault, and then received his M.S. in computer science in 1982. Before receiving his Ph.D. from University of Rochester in 1987 he was a teaching assistant for Patrick Hayes (Fall of 1983), a teaching assistant (Spring of 1984) and a research assistant (1982–1983) for his thesis advisor James F. Allen. His PhD Thesis titled A Formal Theory of Plan Recognition (1987).[5][6]

Kautz was a professor of Computer Science at University of Washington (2000-2006) after worked at AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Laboratories. He is now Professor at University of Rochester and Founding Director of Institute for Data Science after worked as a director of Intelligent Systems at Kodak Research Laboratories (2006-2007).[7]

Selected works

Kautz works on wide areas ranging from planning, knowledge representation and artificial Intelligence to data mining, human computation and crowdsourcing, ubiquitous computing, wearable computers, assistive technology and health. Some of his notable works are listed below and details can be seen on his website at University of Rochester.[8]

Books

Articles

Patent

AI Limericks

Henry Kautz created limericks on AI, which can be seen here (retrieved January 14 2015).

Awards and honors

the premier award for artificial intelligence researchers under the age of 35.
"For contributions to many areas of artificial intelligence, from plan recognition to knowledge representation to software agents."
"For contributions to artificial intelligence and pervasive computing with applications to assistive technology and health."

References

External links

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