Paul S. Rosenbloom
Abbreviated Biography
Currently Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California (USC) and Associate Director of the Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Prior to coming to USC in 1987, was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Stanford University from 1984 to1987, and a Research Computer Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University from 1983 to 1984. Received a B.S. degree in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University in 1976 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1978 and 1983, respectively.
From 1983 until 1998, was co-PI of the Soar Project, a multi-disciplinary, multi-site attempt at developing, understanding, and applying a cognitive architecture capable of supporting general intelligence. Research spanned areas such as machine learning, problem solving and planning, production systems, intelligent agents, virtual humans, multi-agent systems, knowledge-based systems, neural networks, and cognitive modeling. The most significant applications were intelligent automated pilots and commanders for synthetic battlespaces, as deployed in Synthetic Theater of War '97 (STOW-97).
Since 1998, focus has been on exploring and/or developing, new directions, such as:
- Blending entertainment and military simulation technologies and expertise. I helped found the Institute for Creative Technologies, whose "mandate is to enlist the resources and talents of the entertainment and game development industries and work collaboratively with computer scientists to advance the state of immersive training simulation".
- Virtual organizations consisting of mixtures of people, agents, robots, and/or computational resources (e.g., the Grid). In this context, we are currently working on Robot-Agent-Person (RAP) Teams in the context of a disaster response scenario.
- Responding to the Unexpected; that is, understanding and developing the policies, technology, and support required to enable quick and effective responses to low probability, high impact events, whether natural or human in origin.
- Physically coupled webs; that is, large networks of stationary and mobile components that are closely coupled to the physical environment through sensors and effectors, along with the coordination and integration mechanisms that allow them to behave in concert in task adaptive fashions.
- Biomedical imaging and information technology.
- Routine entity-level simulation for large-scale experimentation and analysis.
- Distributed immersipresence.
- Distance learning.
- High performance computing, scalable distributed computing, and computational science.
- Technology and the arts.
Elected a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1994. Service to the field has included stints as Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), Councillor of the AAAI, Conference Chair for the AAAI, and Program Co-Chair of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-92).
For a list of publications and more details overall, check full CV.
Contact Information
Information Sciences Institute Office: 1022 N/EUniversity of Southern California Phone: (310) 448-87294676 Admiralty Way Fax: (310) 823-6714Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Email: Rosenbloom@isi.edu
URL: http://www.isi.edu/soar/rosenbloom