Chuck Rich Joins IMGD
The WPI Computer Science Department is very happy to announce that Dr. Charles "Chuck" Rich joins us on July 1, 2007 as an Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD) faculty member based in the Computer Science Department.
Chuck is very well known in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) fields. He joins us from a position as Distinguished Research Scientist and Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, MA. He was a founding member of MERL in 1991. Before that he pioneered research on intelligent assistants for software engineering at the MIT's AI Lab as a founder and director of the Programmer's Apprentice project. He received his PhD from MIT in 1980.
Chuck is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Fellow and past Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He has actively participated in the organization of conferences and workshops in the areas of AI, and Intelligent User Interfaces.
Chuck says that the thread connecting all of his research is the goal of trying to make interacting with a computer more like interacting with a person. His research into new types of collaborative interfaces for digitally-operated household devices has resulted in a technology called DiamondHelp. This is an application of Collagen, a general tool that he helped develop for building collaborative agents based on human discourse theory.
At WPI, Chuck will be developing and teaching advanced IMGD courses, with an AI and HCI slant, and doing research in collaborative interfaces.
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