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John O. Everett
Qualitative Reasoning Group Institute for the Learning Sciences Northwestern University Evanston, IL USA everett@ils.nwu.edu |
I currently work with Professor Kenneth D. Forbus at Northwestern University's Institute for the Learning Sciences. For my dissertation research, I am developing a theory of teleological reasoning, that is, inferring the intended function of a system given its structural description. I am implementing a system called CARNOT that applies this theory to the domain of steady-state thermodynamic cycles such as refrigerators and heat engines in order to develop functional explanations from their schematic descriptions. As part of my dissertation work I am building a CARNOT-based coach for tutoring undergraduate engineering students in their first and second courses in thermodynamics. This coach will become a part of CyclePad, an articulate virtual laboratory for teaching engineering thermodynamics. Another potential application of this work would be an automatic indexer that could categorize and retrieve CAD/CAM schematics according to their function.
Scaling up Logic-based Truth Maintenance Systems via Fact Garbage Collection. J. Everett and K. D. Forbus. To appear in Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Portland, Oregon, USA, 1996.
A Theory of Mapping from Structure to Function Applied to Engineering Thermodynamics. J. Everett. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.
I particularly enjoy skiing. I grew up skiing at Hunter Mountain in New York State, but nothing beats the American West. I have been on two National Outdoor Leadership School wilderness courses, one in the Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains, and the other sea kayaking in Alaska's Prince William Sound. I have a visual flight rules private pilot's license. And finally, I enjoy woodworking, when I have the time. I've found that there's a wealth of information on the web for woodworkers. In particular, check out The Woodworking Catalog and Woodworking on the World Wide Web. Last fall I built the desk I'm working at right now.
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