David C. Brown is Professor of
Computer Science and has a collaborative
appointment as Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at
WPI (Worcester
Polytechnic Institute). He has B.Sc., M.Sc., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Computer Science, and is a member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society,
AAAI, and IFIP Working Group 5.1.
He was a consultant on the manufacturing applications of AI at Digital
Equipment Corporation, and is on the Editorial Boards of several
Journals in addition to AI EDAM, including
Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications;
and the
International Journal of Design Computing.
He was on the Board of
Research in Engineering Design from 1999 to 2009.
He is a Vice Chair of the
Design Computing and Cognition conferences, was Local Chair
for AID'00, and has been on the Advisory Committees for the
AI in Engineering and the
IFIP WG 5.2 Conferences.
Dr. Brown's research interests include computational models of
engineering design, and the applications of Artificial Intelligence to
Engineering and Manufacturing.
He is the author, with B. Chandrasekaran, of the book
"Design Problem Solving: Knowledge Structures and Control
Strategies", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., and a co-editor of
the book "Intelligent Computer Aided Design", Elsevier Science
Publishers B.V. (North-Holland). He is the founder of the
AI in Design Webliography.
His personal home pages can be reached via:
www.wpi.edu/~dcb/
