Charles Rich
Crepe Challenge	Charles Rich is a Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Interactive Media and Game Development and the Robotics Engineering faculties at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was previously a Distinguished Research Scientist and founding member of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Rich earned his Ph.D. at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he was a founder and director of the Programmer's Apprentice project. He is a Fellow and past Councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, as well as having served as chair of the 1992 International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, cochair of the 1998 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and program cochair of the 2004 and general cochair of the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. (See complete CV)	Playing XBox
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Email: rich at wpi dot edu (see official faculty page) B Term Office Hours: Mon 1-2pm, Tues 3-4pm (I would be happy to meet at other times, just send me email!) Engagement and Collaboration in Human-Robot Interaction (NSF-sponsored research) Robots and Avatars as Hosts, Advisors, Companions and Jesters (photos and videos accompanying the Spring 2009 AI Magazine article) ANSI/CEA-2018 Task Model Description (CE TASK 1.0) reference implementation and examples. Course information: IMGD 400X - AI for Interactive Media and Games (B 2009) IMGD 4000 - Technical Game Development II (D 2010) Previously taught courses DBLP citation index (not complete; see CV) News release when I joined WPI