Michael Witbrock

Michael Witbrock
Born Michael John Witbrock
Christchurch, New Zealand
Residence Austin, Texas, US
Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation Computer scientist
Known for Cycorp, Cyc, Common Lisp, ObjectStore

Michael John Witbrock is a computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. A native of New Zealand, he currently lives in Austin, Texas, and is the former Vice President of Research at Cycorp, which is carrying out the Cyc project in an effort to produce a genuine Artificial Intelligence.

Background and Affiliations

Dr. Witbrock was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Cycorp, he was a principal scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and knowledge-based approaches to understanding Web user behavior; he has also been associated with Just Systems Pittsburgh Research Center and the Informedia Digital Library at Carnegie Mellon.

Research Topics

Dr. Witbrock's dissertation work was on speaker modeling; before going to Cycorp, he published in a broad range of areas, including:

His work at Cycorp has focused on improving its knowledge formation efforts, particularly dialogue processing, and on improving accessibility to the Cyc project.

Selected publications

References

  1. Michael Witbrock's Cycorp home page
  2. Cycorp publications - recent publications and downloadable versions in PDF and/or PostScript format
  3. Michael Witbrock's CMU publications page
  4. Michael Witbrock's video bibliography

External links


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