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Cognitive Science Chair Appointed
Selmer Bringsjord, director of the Rensselaer
Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (RAIR) Lab, has been named
chair of the Department of Cognitive Science.
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Bringsjord, a Rensselaer faculty member in the
same department for 14 years, is an expert in the logical-mathematical
and philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence.
Bringsjord's RAIR Lab performs research in cognitive
robotics, gaming, and artificial intelligence. He is a consultant
to gaming, multimedia, and e-learning companies. He earned his
bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania
and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University.
Bringsjord has applied his expertise in logic
to become proficient in computer science, which has led him to
build artificial intelligence systems that are literally creative.
His most notable literary creation is Brutus.1, a computer that
can write short stories of up to 500 words. The machine can generate
stories based on the notions of betrayal, deception, and evil.
Bringsjord has applied his expertise in
logic to become proficient in computer science, which has
led him to build artificial intelligence systems that are
literally creative.
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As chair, Bringsjord says the immediate priority
for the department is to establish first-rate R&D in conjunction
with establishing a new Ph.D. in Cognitive Science.
Among Bringsjord's books are What Robots Can
and Can't Be (Kluwer, 1992) and Artificial Intelligence
and Literary Creativity: Inside the mind of Brutus, a Storytelling
Machine (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000). In the latter, co-authored
with IBM's David Ferruci, Bringsjord dissects the anatomy of Brutus.1,
including the algorithms that constitute its mind.
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