Scientific Discovery

Raúl E. Valdés-Pérez (bio)

Adjunct Associate Professor (formerly Senior Research Scientist)

Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891 - USA
valdes at cs dot cmu another_dot edu

Traditional research interests: artificial intelligence (knowledge discovery, scientific discovery, machine learning), applications to natural (biology, chemistry, physics) and social (linguistics, psychology) science, and human computer collaboration. New interests: data mining for sports (infotainment), politics, and business; document clustering and text mining.

My research goal is to improve on the current state of scientific, engineering, and other professional reasoning by developing characterizable methods and interactive software that partially automate high-end tasks of discovery. In short: Better discovery of new, interesting knowledge. But science took us to the moon, it cures disease, etc. What does it mean to improve it?

Important dual aspects of this research program are to contribute to both basic computer science (creativity as an ill-understood phenomenon) and scientific applications. The collaborative application of current tools, as well as explorations of new tasks, are welcome.

Check out Associated Press writing about our baseball program postscript , pdf .
Photo for Carnegie Mellon News report on PickNiche Baseball.

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