Randall Davis

Randall Davis
Stata Center 237
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Phone: (617) 253-5879
Email: send email to my last name at csail.mit.edu

Administrative Assistant: Nira Manoharan (617)253-5977

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research Director ar MIT CSAIL

Recent Bio


Current Projects and A Few Publications

  • Sketch Understanding and Design Rationale Capture

  • For an extensive overview of the project, click here.


  • Intellectual Property

  • Davis R, Dilemmas Faced by Creative People in IT, Position paper for Princeton University - Microsoft Intellectual Property Conference, May 12, 2005.
    (in pdf)

    Davis R, Samuelson P, Kapor M, Reichmann J, A new view of intellectual property and software, Communications of the ACM, March 1996, pp. 21-30
    (in pdf)
    (in postscript)


  • AAAI 1996 Presidential Address

  • Davis R, What Are Intelligence? And Why? AAAI Magazine, Spring 1998, pp. 91-110. (in pdf)


    6.001 Handouts