Thomas A. Russ
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 several projects including Loom,
Biomedical Knowledge Engineering and
information integration. He is also working with USC's Institute for Creative Technologies on
the Virtual
Human 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 and general problems involved
with reasoning using ontologies and other knowledge representation
systems. He designed and implemented a temporal extension to the Loom® knowledge representation language that
allows the system to reason effectively with temporal assertions.
Dr. Russ is one of the contributors to the PowerLoom® knowledge representation
and reasoning system. He has designed and implemented the Ontosaurus browser for Loom and
PowerLoom knowledge bases.
In the past, Dr. Russ has worked on applying Loom to problems in visual processing,
extending the capabilities of PowerLoom and applying PowerLoom to
problems in knowledge management for scientific data with the Southern California Earthquake
Center. He is currently working on applications of ontology to
reasoning in a biomedical context, knowledge management and data
integration.
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