Henry Kautz

Henry A. Kautz
Born1956 (age 68–69)
Youngstown, Ohio
Alma materUniversity of Rochester (PhD 1987)
University of Toronto (MS 1982)
Johns Hopkins University (MA 1980)
Cornell University (AB 1978)
Case Institute of Technology (1974-1975)
AwardsIJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1989)
AAAI Fellow (1997) [1] AAAS Fellow (2006) [2]
ACM Fellow (2013) [3]
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial Intelligence
Data science
Pervasive Computing
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester
Kodak Research Laboratories
University of Washington
AT&T Laboratories
Bell Labs
ThesisA Formal Theory of Plan Recognition. (1987)
Doctoral advisorJames F. Allen
Other academic advisorsC. Raymond Perrault (master supervisor)
Websitewww.cs.rochester.edu/u/kautz/

Henry A. Kautz (born 1956) is a computer scientist, Founding Director of Institute for Data Science and Professor at University of Rochester. He is interested in knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, data science and pervasive computing.[4]

Biography

Kautz was born in 1956 in Youngstown, Ohio.[5]

Kautz entered the Case Institute of Technology in 1974, then a year later, transferred to Cornell University and got his B.A. in English and in mathematics in 1978 there.[5] He wrote plays during a one-year fellowship creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University and got an M.A. by the Writing Seminars in 1980.[5] As a foreign student supported by the Connaught Fellowship, he enrolled at University of Toronto in 1980.[5] Kautz completed his master thesis A First-Order Dynamic Logic for Planning under the supervision of C. Raymond Perrault, and then received his M.S. in computer science in 1982.[5] Before receiving his Ph.D. from University of Rochester in 1987 he was a teaching assistant for Patrick Hayes and a teaching assistant and research assistant for his thesis advisor James F. Allen.[5] His PhD thesis was titled A Formal Theory of Plan Recognition (1987).[5][6]

Kautz was a professor of Computer Science at University of Washington (2000-2006) after worked at AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Laboratories. He is now[when?] Professor at University of Rochester and Founding Director of Institute for Data Science after worked as a director of Intelligent Systems at Kodak Research Laboratories (2006-2007).[7]

Selected works

Kautz works on wide areas ranging from planning, knowledge representation and artificial Intelligence to data mining, human computation and crowdsourcing, ubiquitous computing, wearable computers, assistive technology and health.[8]

Books

  • 1991. Reasoning About Plans. (with James F. Allen, R. Pelavin, and J. Tenenberg) Morgan Kaufmann, 1991. ISBN 978-1493306138

Articles

Patent

  • 1993. Optimization of Information Bases. US patent issued November 1993
  • 1997. Mechanism for Constraint Satisfaction. US patent issued June 1997
  • 1997. Message Filtering Techniques. US patent issued April 1997

AI Limericks

Henry Kautz created limericks on AI, which can be seen here (retrieved January 14 2015) Archived 2015-10-20 at the Wayback Machine.

Awards and honors

the premier award for artificial intelligence researchers under the age of 35.
"For contributions to many areas of artificial intelligence, from plan recognition to knowledge representation to software agents."
"For contributions to artificial intelligence and pervasive computing with applications to assistive technology and health."
  • 2013. 10-Year Impact Award of ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.
  • 2018. ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award.

References

  1. ^ a b AAAI FELLOWS
  2. ^ a b AAAS Fellows
  3. ^ a b ACM Fellows 2013
  4. ^ Henry A Kautz homepage on Rochester
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "Henry Kautz CV in Thesis, May 1987". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
  6. ^ Henry Kautz CV at University of Washington April 2000
  7. ^ "Henry Kautz CV, January 2015" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
  8. ^ "papers of Henry A. Kautz". Archived from the original on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-01-14.