Research Bytes IV

Profs. Michael Gennert, Neil Heffernan, Mark Claypool, And Robert Kinicki

October 4, 2002
11 a.m. - 12 noon
Fuller Labs 320

Each professor will give a 15-minute presentation of their research area. All members of the WPI community are invited to attend.

Summary of research interests:

Prof. Gennert:: Computer vision, spatio-temporal databases,programming languages; computational vision, including stereo, motion, and fractal image modeling; image and multimedia databases, including temporal data modeling; category theory and abstraction theory.
Prof. Heffernan:: Artificial Intelligence, particularly intelligent tutoring systems, cognitive modeling, and dialog based systems; also data mining as it applies to intelligent tutoring systems.
Prof. Claypool:: Distributed systems, networking, multimedia and collaborative filtering; performance of Internet multimedia applications and recommender systems that use collaborative filtering; building software systems and evaluating their performance experimentally.
Prof. Kinicki:: Network management, computer system performance evaluation, computer networks; congestion control algorithms for TCP/IP, network management, and electronic commerce.

Refreshments will be served in FL 320 beginning at 10:50 a.m.

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