Benjamin Kuipers
Professor and Chairman,
Department of Computer Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin.
- B.A. in Mathematics, Swarthmore College, 1970.
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, MIT, 1977.
(academic genealogy)
Research Interests
The representation of commonsense and expert knowledge, with
particular emphasis on the effective use of incomplete knowledge. The
Qualitative Reasoning Research Group
home page describes these research topics, papers, students, and
available software in considerable detail.
Research accomplishments include:
- the TOUR model of spatial knowledge in the cognitive map,
- the QSIM algorithm for qualitative simulation,
- Access-Limited Logic for knowledge representation, and
- a robot exploration and mapping strategy
based on qualitative recognition of distinctive places.
- B. J. Kuipers. 1994.
Qualitative
Reasoning: Modeling and Simulation with Incomplete Knowledge.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Teaching Plans
Contact Information
- Mail:
- Prof. Benjamin Kuipers
- Computer Science Department
- University of Texas at Austin
- Austin, Texas 78712
- Email: kuipers@cs.utexas.edu
- Phone: (512) 471-9590
- Fax: (512) 471-8885
- Finger.
BJK