Artificial Intelligence in Design: An Introduction

David C. Brown
Professor of Computer Science,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Friday, 17 March 2006
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Fuller Labs 320

Design is an activity requiring intelligence, and therefore is an excellent area for Artificial Intelligence researchers to study. The area of "AI in Design" has been active for almost 25 years. The field's contributions include models of design reasoning and details of the types of knowledge used, as well as implemented design systems. In this presentation, as an introduction to the field, we will review a few of the many AI in Design projects that have been done at WPI.

David Brown is Professor of Computer Science and has a collaborative appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has B.Sc., M.Sc., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, and is a member of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, AAAI, and IFIP WG 5.2. He is the Editor in Chief of the Cambridge UP journal AIEDAM: AI in Engineering, Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, and is on the editorial boards of several other journals.

Host: Michael Gennert

Refreshments will be served.