Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:43:02 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5.2 Last-modified: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 23:26:33 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-length: 3104 Rich Sutton's Home Page

Richard S. Sutton

Senior Research Scientist
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003 USA

Co-director, Adaptive Networks Laboratory

email: rich@cs.umass.edu
office: Lederle A225 (413-545-0609) (Mondays and Fridays)
office hours: 1-2:00 Monday
phone: 508-897-6174, fax:508-897-1842


The long term goal of my research is to identify general computational principles underlying what we mean by intelligence and goal-directed behavior. My starting place is the interaction between the intelligent agent and its environment. Goals, choices, and sources of information are all defined in terms of this interaction. In some sense it is the only thing that is real, and from it all our sense of the world is created. How is this done? How can interaction lead to better behavior, better perception, better models of the world? What are the computational issues in doing this efficiently and in realtime? These are the sort of questions that I ask in trying to understand what it means to be intelligent, to predict and influence the world, to learn, perceive, act, and think.