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Charles Rich
Professor
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Office: Fuller Laboratories, B25b
Phone: +1-508-831-5945
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
rich@wpi.edu
Related Information
Educational Background
- B.A.Sc., University of Toronto, 1973
- S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980
Research & Teaching Interests
artificial intelligence; interactive media and game development; intelligent user interfaces; human-robot interaction
Honors & Awards
- Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 1992
Years of Service at WPI
- 2007-present: Professor
Professional Experience & Activities
- Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980-1991): Research Scientist, Principal Research Scientist
- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (1991-2007): Senior Research Scientist, Distinguished Research Scientist, Associate Director of Research Laboratory
- General Chair, Third International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Boston, MA, October 1992
- President (1992-1998), Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Inc.
- Program Cochair, Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Madison, WI, August 1998
- Program Cochair, Eighth ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Madeira Island, Portugal, January 2004
- Cochair (2006-2007), Consumer Electronics Association, Home Networks Committee (R7) Working Group on Task-Based User Interface (WG12)
- General Cochair, Fourteenth ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Hong Kong, China, January 2010
Professional Societies/Memberships
- Councilor (1984-1987), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1990