Publications
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Like an Intuitive and Courteous Butler: a Proactive Personal Agent for Task Management
We characterize the properties desired of proactive behaviour by a personal assistant agent in the realm of task management, and present an extended agent cognition model that features a meta-level…
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Multi-Reflected Echoes: Another Ionogram Signature of Large-Scale Wave Structure
MREs are interesting because they display, for the data set examined, a strong preference to occur during the post-sunset rise of the F layer, which includes E-region sunset. How this finding affects our…
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Synchrotron Studies of Co2 Photodisassociation: Excited State Quantum Yields and Optical Emissions from Comets and the Mars Atmosphere
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Usable Intelligent Interactive Systems: Chi 2009 Special Interest Group Meeting
This special interest group provides a forum to examine the apparent gap between HCI and AI communities, to explore how intelligent technologies can enable novel interaction with computation.
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Using Learning Decomposition And Bootstrapping With Randomization To Compare The Impact Of Different Educational Interventions On Learning
This paper presents a study to determine the relative efficacy of different instructional strategies by applying an educational data mining technique, learning decomposition.
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Visible Dayglows of the CO2 Planets
We have performed laboratory experiments on CO2 photodissociation in the appropriate spectral region, utilizing synchrotron radiation from the Berkeley Advanced Light Source (ALS) in the 11-14 eV range.
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Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task
In this paper, we present an error analysis of a new cross-lingual task: the 5W task, a sentence-level understanding task which seeks to return the English 5W's (Who, What, When,…
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Working and Episodic Memory Processes in Alcoholism, HIV, and Their Comorbidity
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From Cold Fusion to Condensed Matter Nuclear Science: 20 Years of Research
Nuclear fusion, as conventionally understood, is a process whereby the nuclei of light elements fuse together to form heavier ones.
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Learning By Demonstration to Support Military Planning and Decision Making
We describe the development and application of learning by demonstration technology to support user creation of automated procedures for a rich collaborative planning environment that is in widespread use by…
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Malware Characterization Through Alert Pattern Discovery
We present a novel alert correlation approach based on the factor analysis statistical technique for malware characterization. Our approach involves mechanically computing a set of abstract quantities, called factors, for expressing…
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Multiple Roles for Nicotine in Parkinson’s Disease
Extensive studies in parkinsonian animals show that nicotine protects against nigrostriatal damage, findings that may explain the well-established decline in Parkinson's disease incidence with tobacco use.