Selected papers

• Editorial: Introduction to Developmental Robotics, co-authored with Douglas Blank. Connection Science, Volume 18, Number 2, 2006. pdf
• Bringing up robot: Fundamental mechanisms for creating a self-motivating, self-organizing architecture, co-authored with Douglas Blank, Deepak Kumar, and Jim Marshall. Cybernetics and Systems, Volume 36, Number 2, 2005. pdf
• An emergent framework for self-motivation in developmental robotics, co-authored with James Marshall and Douglas Blank, presented at The Third International Conference on Development and Learning, 2004. pdf
• Heterogeneity in the coevolved behaviors of mobile robots: The emergence of specialists, co-authored with Mitchell Potter and Alan Schultz, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001. pdf
• Alfred: The Robot Waiter Who Remembers You, co-authored with Bruce Maxwell, Nii Saka Addo, Laura Brown, Paul Dickson, Jane Ng, Seth Olshfski, Eli Silk, and Jordan Wales, unpublished. pdf
• REAPER: A Reflexive Architecture for Perceptive Agents, co-authored with Bruce Maxwell, Nii Saka Addo, Paul Dickson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Nik Johnson, Edward Jones, Suor Kim, Pukar Malla, Matthew Murphy, Brandon Rutter, and Eli Silk, AI Magazine, volume 22, number 1, 2001. pdf
• Nature versus Nurture in Evolutionary Computation: Balancing the Roles of the Training Environment and the Fitness Function in Producing Behavior, co-authored with Jordan Wales and Jesse Wells, GECCO Late Breaking Paper, 2000. postscript
• Integrating Robotics Research with Undergraduate Education, co-authored with Bruce Maxwell, Special Issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems, edited by Robin Murphy, volume 15, number 6, 2000. pdf
• The AAAI 1999 Mobile Robot Competitions and Exhibition, co-authored with Alan Schultz, Tucker Balch, Rahul Bhargava, Karen Zita Haigh, Marc Bohlen, Cathryne Stein, and David Miller, AI Magazine, Volume 21, Number 3, pages 69-78, 2000. pdf
• Trends in Evolutionary Robotics, co-authored with Deepak Kumar, Soft Computing for Intelligent Robotic Systems, edited by L.C. Jain and T. Fukuda, Physica-Verlag, New York, NY, pages 215-233, 1998. postscript
• Bridging the gap between robot simulations and reality with improved models of sensor noise, Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Genetic Programming, edited by Koza, J.R, et. al., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, pages 824-831, 1998. postscript
• A Hybrid Connectionist and BDI Architecture for Modeling Embedded Rational Agents, co-authored with Deepak Kumar, presented at the Workshop on Cognitive Robotics, AAAI Fall Symposium Series at MIT, October, 1998. postscript
• Use of robot simulations can enhance integration, co-authored with Doug Blank, presented at the Workshop on Integrating Robotics Research, AAAI Spring Symposium Series, at Stanford, March, 1998. postscript
• Innovation via competition: Taking the next leap, co-authored with Doug Blank, presented at the Workshop on Integrating Robotics Research, AAAI Spring Symposium Series, at Stanford, March, 1998. postscript
• Learning in autonomous robots: A summary of the 1996 Robolearn Workshop, co-authored with Henry Hexmoor, Knowledge Engineering Review, Volume 11, Issue 4, 1997. postscript
• An incremental approach to developing intelligent neural network controllers for robots, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Volume 26, Number 3, pages 474-485, 1996. postscript
• Towards planning: Incremental investigations into adaptive robot control, unpublished dissertation done under the guidance of Mike Gasser at Indiana University, 1994. postscript
• Emergent control and planning in an autonomous vehicle, co-authored with Gary McGraw and Doug Blank, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pages 735-740, 1993. postscript
• Exploring the symbolic/subsymbolic continuum: A case study of RAAM, co-authored with Doug Blank and Jim Marshall, The Symbolic and Connectionist Paradigms: Closing the Gap, edited by J. Dinsmore, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pages 113-148, 1992. postscript
• Technical report: Learning with Sparse Distributed Memory postscript and A User's Manual and Guide to an SDM Simulator on a Connection Machine postscript, both co-authored with Jim Marshall, 1989.

• Current Courses, Spring 2008
  • CS21 Introduction to Computer Science
  • CS81 Adaptive Robotics
• Past Courses
  • COGS1 Introduction to Cognitive Science (Spring 2007)
  • CS37 The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Spring 2006)
  • CS63 Artificial Intelligence
  • CS75 Compiler Construction (Spring 2007)
  • CS81 Developmental Robotics
    • Fall 2006
    • Spring 2003
  • CS129/PSYCH129 Computational Models of Language (Spring 2001)
• Alumni College 2000

• NSF CCLI EMD grant (2003-2006) Beyond LEGOs: Hardware, Software, and Curriculum for the Next Generation Robot Laboratory
• See the resulting software Pyro
• Received the NEEDS 2005 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware
• NSF ILI grant (1996-1998) A robot-based laboratory for teaching Artificial Intelligence postcript or compressed.
  • See some of the results of the awarded grant, Resource kit: A robot laboratory for teaching AI
    

• Ph.D. in Computer Science with a minor in Cognitive Science at Indiana University, 1994.
• B.A. in Mathematics at Grinnell College, 1985.