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DUSTIN SMITH, Bag of skin containing mostly water.




Major: Computer Science, AI

College: Intranational School of College

Year of Graduation: 2011

Email Address: Email hidden for privacy
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Brief Biographical Sketch:

PhD student studying commonsense computing, as a knowledge-heavy approach to artificial intelligence.

my goal is to make computers that think like people and not by making people think like computers! i'm particularly interested the problems of understanding and producing natural language statements.



Past Classes

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Introducing Artificial Intelligence as Problems of Knowledge in SPLASH (2007)
This is an introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence. I will introduce the problem landscape using Knowledge as the ...


Introducing Artificial Intelligence as Problems of Knowledge in SPLASH (2007)
This is an introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence. I will introduce the problem landscape using Knowledge as the ...


How to build a mind in SPLASH (2006)
This class will explore Artificial Intelligence-- how it may work, why it hasn't in the past, why we need it ...


Building a Mind -- Mind, Brain and Circuits in SPLASH (2005)
Can machines think? We'll look at what brains are and what minds do, from an entertaining, cross-disciplinary point of view. ...


Building a Mind-- Mind, Brain and Circuits in SPLASH (2005)
Can machines think? We'll look at what brains are and what minds do, from an entertaining, cross-disciplinary point of view. ...