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Hello, all! I'm Bill Murdock. Since fall of 1994 I have been studiying AI (part of an interdisciplinary Cognitive Science program) at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. My advisor is Professor Ashok Goel and I am a member of his Intelligence and Design group. I obtained my bachelor's degree in the spring of 1994 from Rice University where I was at Wiess College. I received my master's degree in the spring of 1996 from Georgia Institute of Technology.
My research focuses on areas relating to reflection, specifically on using high level functional models of a system's reasoning to perform self-modification. In particular I have been working on a project called SIRRINE which uses models of this sort for self-redesign in the context of multi-agent environments such as meeting scheduling. The overall paradigm that SIRRINE operates under describes learning as a kind of design task; a reasoner is viewed as an abstract device and the learning process involves redesign of the device.
During the summer of 1996 I am working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology within the Engineering Design Technolgies group run by Ram D. Sriram. In particular I have been working on the Design Case Study Framework, a long term research project with the objective of providing a large scale database of human readable artifact design cases for the support of engineering design. My particular contribution has centered around the issue of knowledge representation within this project, particularly with regards to modeling the functions of devices and their subsystems.
I have also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant on the HIPED project which involves intelligent integration of heterogeneous data sources in the context of design of physical devices and is part of the Intelligent Integration of Information Technology project within the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this project, my work centers around Interactive Kritik, an AI design system which currently acts as the intelligent agent at the core of the HIPED system. Additionally I am conducting research on the topic of reflection, specifically on using high level functional models of a system's reasoning to perform self-modification.
My most interesting HTML work is my Interactive Micro-Kritik project, still under developement. Additionally I also did a reasonably pretty HTML homework assignment for my HCI class in which I discuss natural language interfaces.
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