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Ada

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Published
December 6, 2013
SA Post Image URL
https://thesarf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ada.jpg
Gender
Female
Hometown
Los Alamos, NM
Occupation
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Temperament
Analytical
Interests
Adaptive Boosting, Dynamic Decision Networks, Symbolic Time Sequences
State
Texas
New City
Austin
Adoption Completed
April 2013 (Ann Richards School Petting Zoo)

Description

Curriculum vitae

Positions

  • Ada joined the faculty of the MIT Department of Computer Science in 1995.
  • Ada is a member of the MIT Artificial Stuffed Animal Intelligence Lab and has served on many MIT faculty committees (2000-2006)

Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence, stuffed animal activity recognition, dynamic decision networks and symbolic time sequences in plush subjects

Education

  • Ada received a B.S. in Computer Science Synthetics in 1986 from Purdue University and a Ph.D in Computer Science from MIT in 1991.

Publications

  • Ada's publications include 4 books (major AI textbooks), and several collections of MIT papers.

Honors and Awards

  • AI Dissertation Award: A Framework for Plush Robot Navigation, 1998
  • NSF Award: Dynamic Decisions in Multi-Robot Interactions with Polyester, 1998
  • DSA-98 Best Paper Award: Conference on Synthetic Fur Systems, A Comparison of Representative Polyester Batting Localization Methods in Stuffed Robots, 2001.

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