I am a
Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at the University
of Kentucky.
My research papers by topic.
My research papers by date.
This spring, I am offering CS 575, Theory of Computing
My office hours are TBA in 309 Marksbury Building. My phone number there is 859-257-4245. You're more likely to reach me by email.
The Comparative Decision Making Studies homepage (it's still under development); AI Lab Wiki and a few of the guys from the lab.
My research interests include decision making under uncertainty; automation of information elicitation; preference elicitation, representation, and aggregation; computational learning theory, and computational complexity. Note the heavy concentration on decision making!
Article about women in CS with numbers that I'm not sure I believe.
I co-organized the NSF-sponsored Broader Impacts for Research
and Discovery Summit June 21--23, 2010. Related
media (slides, video, text) will be available at that link.
I co-organized
a special track on computational social choice for ISAIM '12,
the first Comparative Decision Making Studies Conference in '11,
the IJCAI Doctoral Consortium in '11, the
UAI Workshop on Bayesian Applications in '07,
and the AAAI Workshop on Preference Handling in AI in '07.
I co-edited a special issue of the International
Journal of Approximate Reasoning based on the
UAI workshop; I also co-edited a special issue of AI Magazine on preferences
(the Winter '08-09 issue).
I've been on the program committees for
NMR '10;
ICAPS '09; ADT '09;
UAI '11, '07, '06, 05; AAAI '11, '10, '05, '06;
the ECAI '10, VLDB '07, AAAI '07, ECAI '06, and IJCAI '05 Workshops on Preferences,
plus various workshops and earlier conference PCs.
I am taking a semester off from program committees in Spring '12.
I was the PI on an ITR grant on
Decision Making Under Uncertainty with Constraints. This is a
multi-disciplinary, multi-professor project that applies
decision-making analysis and software to academic advising
and Kentucky Welfare to Work. The grant ended Summer '09.
I am involved with the new
Cognitive Science program here at UK. There is an undergraduate
minor and a graduate certificate available.
A calendar of
upcoming religious holidays.
I spent the academic year '06-'07 on sabbatical. I visited Bob
Sloan at the University of Illinois-Chicago,
Michael Littman and Eric Allender at Rutgers University,
and then the Cork Center for Constraint Computation, in
Ireland;
friends in England;
Joerg Rothe in Duesseldorf, Germany;
Linda van der Gaag in Utrecht, Netherlands;
Martin Mundhenk, Jena, Germany;
Patrice Perny, Paris, France.
I have posted
many pictures from my travels.
My paper, ``The Computational Complexity of Probabilistic Plan Existence
and Evaluation," M. Littman, J. Goldsmith, and M. Mundhenk,
The Journal of AI Research, volume 9, pages 1--36, 1998,
received honorable mention for the
The Annual IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize
In February 1998, I was awarded the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (junior) mentoring award,
in recognition of the support I have given to people in categories
underrepresented in science: women, people of color, people with
learning disabilities and physical handicaps, and people choosing
alternative lifestyles. It was very nice to get official recognition
of my ongoing mentoring work.
I dance with
Squash
Beetle Morris,
I bicycle, and I
contra dance. I also call contra dances, which means
I teach the dances, and then prompt the dancers as they dance.
The local dances in Lexington are at ArtsPlace
at N. Mill and Church Streets; beginners
should show up around 7:30 for the beginners' workshop.
No partner or experience needed. The music is always live.
Students
PhD students
Joshua Guerin
Radu Paul Mihail
Matthew Spradling
Josiah Hanna
Libby Knouse
Robert Crawford, BSE 2011
Liangrong Yi, PhD 2010
Krol Kevin Mathias, PhD 2008
Peng Dai, MS 2008
Derek Williams, MS 2005ish
Kiran Bhuma, MS
Stephen Christensen
Lucas Cockerham, MS
Jignesh Doshi, MS
Christopher Lusena, PhD
Tong Li, MS
Shelia Sittinger, MS
Christopher Wells, BS
Wenzhong Zhao, PhD
WEB pages for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Citeseer, a great research tool.
An amusing article about my late grandmother, may she rest in peace.
Citizens ruled by fear are citizens primed for manipulation. We cannot allow the very real threats to our safety to rule our lives. We must live and act based on our deepest convictions.
As the US war machine continues to grind, as people the world over continue killing each other in the name of peace or justice, it is difficult for tree huggers and peaceniks to maintain their equilibrium. The work of trying to change the world is difficult and tiring, but we must, must allow ourselves time to stop and breathe, time to play and dance, as well as to mourn. Or else, what are we working for?
