Thomas A. Russ
Contact Information
- USC / Information Sciences Institute
- 4676 Admiralty Way
- Marina del Rey, CA 90292
- EMail: tar@isi.edu
- Phone: 310-448-8775
- FAX: 310-822-0751
Biography
Thomas Russ received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1991. Dr. Russ was affiliated with the Clinical Decision Making Group
while at M.I.T. His dissertation was Reasoning with Time Dependent
Data. Since 1991 he holds the position of Senior Research Scientist
at USC's Information Sciences
Institute, where he works on the 
Loom® project.
Research Interests
Dr. Russ' primary research interest is the construction of tools for
Artificial Intelligence programming. He is interested in the problems
of reasoning with time varying information. He designed and implemented
a temporal extension to the Loom knowledge representation language that
allows the system to reason effectively with temporal assertions. He is
currently extending the context mechanism and applying Loom to image
understanding problems.
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