Announcements

Spring 2001 Meeting Schedule Posted

News

- ONR VSW/SZ MCM Meeting

Elise and Roy will participate in the Office of Naval Research's Third Very Shallow Water/Surf Zone Mine Countermeasures Meeting in Panama City, February, 2001.

- AAAI'2000

Elise attended a workshop on constraint-based reasoning at AAAI in Austin in July.

- AGENTS'2000

Elise had a paper in the proceedings of AGENTS'2000, in Barcelona. Roy, Elise, and Kathrina attended the conference; June, 2000.

- New intelligent agent!

Elise and Roy now have a baby daughter, Kathrina; January 24, 2000.

- Orca receives new funding!

Roy recently received a $417,000 award from the Office of Naval Research and DEPSCoR for continued work on intelligent mission control and context-sensitive reasoning in single-agent and multiagent systems.

- New lab!

With the addition of Tom Wagner to our faculty, we now have a new lab: MaineSAIL, the Maine Software Agents and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

- New lab space!

We now are in our newly-renovated laboratory on the second floor of the Annex.

- CONTEXT'99

Roy and Elise attended The 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT99) in Trento, Italy, Sept. 9-11. Both have papers in the proceedings.

-UUST'99

Roy and Elise attended The Eleventh International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST99) in Durham, NH, August 23-25. Roy presented a paper co-authored by Jason Mailman. It was well-received, despite the (usual) failure of projection technology!

- AAAI'99

Roy, Elise, John, Chuck, and Mark attend AAAI'99 in Orlando, FL. Very hot! But a good conference. One of us even got to see the shuttle launch.

- AAAI'99 Workshop on Reasoning in Context for AI Applications

Roy and Elise were co-organizers (with colleagues from the University of Paris VI) of the AAAI'99 Workshop on Reasoning in Context for AI Applications, held July 19. John also attended the workshop.

Congratulations, graduates!

Congratulations May graduates to Shari St. Pierre (B.A., CS), Shawnee Kuzdzal (B.S., Math), Eva Curry (B.S., Math), and John Phelps (B.S., CS). Shari has taken a job, while the other three are going to grad school (Eva at Rutgers in math, John and Shawnee at UMaine in CS). Also congratulations to December graduate Matt Hall, who has taken a job in Washington, D.C.

New Publications

• Aspects of context for understanding multi-modal communication (E.H. Turner, R.M. Turner, J. Phelps, C. Grunden, M. Neale, and J. Mailman). To appear in the proceedings of the 1999 International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-99), Trento, Italy, September 9--11, 1999.
• A model of explicit context representation and use for intelligent agents. To appear in the proceedings of the 1999 International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-99), Trento, Italy, September 9--11, 1999.
• Interfacing the Orca AUV controller to the NPS UVW and to a land robot (R.M. Turner and J.Mailman). To appear in the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), Durham, NH, August, 1999.
• A unified long-term memory system (J.H. Lawton, R.M. Turner, and E.H. Turner). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR'99), Monastery Seeon, Munich, Germany, July, 1999.
• The need for context in multi-modal interfaces (E.H. Turner, R.M. Turner, C. Grunden, J. Mailman, M. Neale, and J.Phelps). In the Workshop Notes for the 1999 AAAI Workshop on Reasoning in Context for AI Applications, Orlando, FL, July, 1999. (Workshop notes are available as AAAI Technical Report WS-99-14, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA.)
• Context-mediated behavior: An approach to explicitly representing contexts and contextual knowledge for AI applications. In the Workshop Notes for the 1999 AAAI Workshop on Reasoning in Context for AI Applications, Orlando, FL, July, 1999. (Workshop notes are available as AAAI Technical Report WS--99--14, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA.)