Bart Selman

Bart Selman

Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering
Computer Science
351 Gates Hall
607/255-5643
Director of the Intelligent Information Systems Institute
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Biography

Bart Selman is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He previously was at AT&T Bell Laboratories. His research interests include efficient reasoning procedures, planning, knowledge representation, and connections between computer science and statistical physics. He has (co-)authored over 100 publications, including six best paper awards. His papers have appeared in venues spanning Nature, Science, Proc. Natl. Acad. of Sci., and a variety of conferences and journals in AI and Computer Science. He has received the Cornell Stephen Miles Excellence in Teaching Award, the Cornell Outstanding Educator Award, an NSF Career Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Web-Stat hit counters

Research Interests

Teaching Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science

Education

University of Toronto 1991

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The real reason AI won’t take over anytime soon

Yahoo! News: Artificial intelligence has had its share of ups and downs recently. In what was widely seen as a key milestone for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, one system beat a former world champion at a mind-bendingly intricate board game. But then, just a week later, a "chatbot" that was designed to learn from its interactions with humans on Twitter had a highly public racist meltdown on the social networking site. Read more about The real reason AI won’t take over anytime soon