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Paul Robertson
Education
- DPhil
- University of Oxford, Self-Adaptive Software.
- BA
- University of Essex, First Class in Computing Science.
Employment History
- 2004-Present
- Research Scientist, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Researching diagnosis, planning, and repair of hardware and software
systems for military and space applications. Where I have worked on and
managed contracts funded by DARPA (SRS program), NASA (IS and AISR
programs), ONR, Boeing, Toyota.
- 2004-Present
- Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts at
Boston.
Teaching: The Structure of High Level Languages based on Abelson &
Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
- 1998-2004
- Affiliate member of MIT CSAIL under contract from DOLL
Inc.
Working under contract on several DARPA funded projects (MOBIES, NEST
programs). Researched into hand gesture/sign recognition and real-time
tracking for controlling a public information kiosk (Using the DOLL
IGOR robot head).
- 1993-2004
- Chief Scientist, DOLL, Inc.
Designed a new research language called Yolambda and developed a
compiler and development environment for it in support of reflective
programming research. Yolambda was later used in customer applications
as an embedded language and went on to be used in research into
Self-Adaptive software. Developed DOIT, an expert system tool that was
used in customer applications and as a research tool at the Navel
Postgraduate School. Principle Investigator on DARPA funded research
project (EDCS program) to design a next generation presentation based
user interface and later on tools to support a Self-Adaptive platform
for image understanding. Developed a robot head (IGOR) supporting
real-time vision based tracking, speech recognition, and control of
appliances as an HCI research platform.
- 1999 to 2000
- Visiting Research Scientist, University of Oxford.
Conducted research into Self-Adaptive Software for Computer Vision
funded by DARPA (SAFER and ANTS program). This appointment allowed me
to continue my research into the robust, automatic, interpretation of
multispectral infrared satellite images and monochromatic GIS images.
Robustness was achieved by automatically adapting to a changing visual
environment.
- 1990 to 1993
- Vice President, Chief Technical Officer, Teela
Technology,
Inc.
Developed image analysis software in support of a client project to
build 3D models of the human heart and eye. Researched techniques for
the automatic recognition, cleanup, extraction of duplicate line
drawing images in Navy manuals as part of a project to convert legacy
maintenance manuals into Intelligent Electronic Technical Manuals
(IETM) under a subcontract with Lockheed Martin on an ONR funded
project. Developed a Lisp Machine emulator under a contract from
Symbolics Inc. that became their software only product. Worked under
contract to Macsyma, Inc. where I helped build the graphical front end
for the PC version of Macsyma and generally helped productize the first
and second versions of their PC product which was based upon the Lisp
compiler that I developed for Symbolics between 1986 and 1990.
- 1987 to 1990
- Manager PC Products Group, Symbolics, Inc.
Managed an R&D group that was primarily developing language
products for the Intel platform and included developing a Common Lisp
compiler for the Intel 80386, Symbolics CLOS for both the Lisp Machine
and the PC platform, and a plug in board for the Symbolics 3600 class
machines. The Lisp compiler went on to be Symbolics' standard platform
Lisp compiler and was used in products such as Macsyma - a symbolic
mathematics package.
- 1985 to 1986
- Chief Technical Officer, Artelligence, Inc.
Developed one of the first production quality expert system tools for
the PC, Macintosh, and Sun platforms. Designed and implemented a
compact backward chaining expert system kernel under contract to a
defense contractor (Electrospace Systems). Consulted on expert systems
applications. Principle investigator on NASA funded real-time expert
systems research contract.
- 1982 to 1985
- Vice President of R&D, Computer * Thought Corp.
Managed R&D group that was building an intelligent training system
to teach Ada programming to government contractors. Developed an Ada
interpreter with support for dynamic runtime analysis for use in the
knowledge based training system. Designed a rule based langauge that
translates into Ada (OPSAda3).
- 1981 to 1982
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of
Texas
at Dallas.
Taught graduate courses in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.
- 1980 to 1981
- Lecturer, Computer Science, University of Essex (UK).
Taught undergraduate courses in Computer Science.
Professional Affiliations
- ACM
- Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- IEEE
- Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.
- AAAI
- Member of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence.
Journal Publications
- 2006
- Semantic Segmentation,
(with Mike Brady) Forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence Journal.
- Image to Interpretation: An MDL Agent Architecture To
Read
Ancient Roman Texts,
(with Melissa Terras, Mike Brady, XiaoBo Pan, and Alan Bowman)
Submitted to Artificial Intelligence Journal.
- 2005
- Image and Interpretation. Using Artificial
Intelligence to
Read Ancient Roman Texts,
(with Melissa Terras). Human IT
- 2004
- GRAVA: An Architecture Supporting Automatic Context
Transitions and its Application to Robust Computer Vision,
(with Robert Laddaga). WSEAS Transactions on Systems, Volume 3, Issue
4, June 2004: pp. 1743-1750.
- Downs and Acrosses: Textual Markup on a Stroke Level.
(with Melissa Terras) Literary and Linguistic Computing Volume 19,
Issue 3, September 2004: pp.397-414.
Magazine Publications
- 2006
- Automatic Recovery from Software Failure.
(co-authored with Brian Williams), Communications of the ACM Volume 49
#3, pages 41-45.
- 2000
- Seeing Clearly and Moving Forward.
(co-authored with Robert Laddaga and Mark Swinson), IEEE Intelligent
Systems Volume 15 #6, pages 46-50
- 1999
- Adaptive Image Analysis for Aerial Surveillance,
(co-authored with J. M. Brady), IEEE Intelligent Systems Volume 14 #3,
pages 30-36.
- 1997
- Integrating Legacy Systems with Modern Corporate
Applications,
Communications of the ACM Volume 40 #5, pages 39-46.
Books and Book Chapters
- 2006
- Image to Interpretation-Using Artificial Intelligence
to
Read the Vindolanda Texts.
in Image to Interpretation An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in
Reading the Vindolanda Texts (chapters 4 and 5), Oxford University
Press.
- Self-Adaptive Software: Internalized Feedback.
(Co-authored with Robert Laddaga and Howard Shrobe) in Software
Evolution and Feedback Theory and Practice (Chapter 26), Wiley.
- 2005
- Shadow Stereo, Image Filtering, and Constraint
Propagation.
(Co-authored with Michael Brady, Xiao-Bo Pan, Veit Schenk, Melissa
Terras, and Nicholas Molton) in Images and Artefacts of the Ancient
World (Chapter 2), Oxford University Press.
- 2004
- Dynamic Object Technology.
(Co-authored with R. Laddaga and H. Shrobe). Harcourt Brace Forthcoming.
- Self-Adaptive Software.
(P. Robertson, R. Laddaga, H. Shrobe eds.), Springer Verlag LNCS
Forthcoming.
- 2003
- Self-Adaptive Software: Applications.
(P. Robertson, R. Laddaga, H. Shrobe eds.), Springer Verlag LNCS 2614.
- 2000
- Self-Adaptive Software. (P. Robertson, R. Laddaga,
H.
Shrobe eds.), Springer Verlag LNCS 1936.
Other Publications
- 2006
- Autonomous Robust Execution of Complex Robotic
Missions
(with Robert Effinger and Brian Williams). Proceedings Intelligent
Autonomous Systems 9
- 2005
- A Model-Based System Supporting Automatic
Self-Regeneration
of Critical Software
(with Brian Williams). Proceedings SelfMan2005
- Model Based Diagnosis and Contexts in Self Adaptive
Software
(with Robert Laddaga). Springer Verlag LNCS 3460 'Self-star Properties
in Complex Information Systems'
- 2004
- Model Based Diagnosis and Contexts in Self Adaptive
Software
(with Robert Laddaga). Proceedings Intelligent Systems Design and
Applications Conference Budapest.
- Cached Plans for Soft Real-Time Self-Adaptive Software,
Self-Adaptive Software, Springer-Verlag LNCS Forthcoming.
- Using Contexts to Manage System Complexity,
Proceedings International Conference on Engineering of Complex Systems
Florence (ICECCS 2004), Italy
- The GRAVA Self-Adaptive Architecture: History; Design;
Applications; and Challenges,
Proceedings DARES 2004, Tokyo, Japan.
- Virtual Mouse Vision Based Interface,
Proceedings IUI 2004, Madeira, Portugal
- 2003
- GRAVA: An Architecture Supporting Automatic Context
Transitions and its Application to Robust Computer Vision,
Proceedings of the 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference
CONTEXT 2003, Stanford, CA
- Model Based Diagnosis in Self Adaptive Software,
Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Principles of
Diagnosis, Washington DC.
- Confidence From Self Knowledge and Domain Knowledge,
Self-Adaptive Software: Applications, Springer-Verlag LNCS 2614 2003.
- An Agent Architecture for Information Fusion and its
Application to Robust Face Identification,
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applied
Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria.
- 2002
- Principle Component Decomposition for Automatic
Context
Induction,
(with Robert Laddaga), Proceedings of the Artificial and Computational
Intelligence conference, Tokyo Japan, 2002
- Adaptive, Intelligent Control of Embedded Applications.
(with Robert Laddaga), Proceedings of the Intelligent Systems and
Control conference, Tsukuba Japan, 2002
- A Self-adaptive Architecture and its Application to
Robust
Face Identification,
(with Robert Laddaga), Proceedings PRICAI-2002 LNAI 2417 2002.
- Algorithms for Adaptation in Aerial Surveillance.
(with Steven Reece and Michael Brady), AFRL-IF-RS-TR-2002-52.
- 2001
- A Self-Adaptive Architecture for Image Understanding,
DPhil Thesis, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- 2000
- An architecture for self-adaptation and its
application to
aerial image understanding,
Self-Adaptive Software, Springer-Verlag LNCS 1936 2000, Pages 199-223.
- 1999
- A Corpus-Based Approach to the Interpretation of
Aerial
Images,
Proceedings IPA99, Manchester, UK.
- 1992
- On Reflection and Refraction,
Proceedings of Workshop on Reflection, Tokyo Japan.
- 1986
- A Rule-Based Expert Simulation Environment,
Intelligent Simulation Environments, Simulation Series Volume 17 #1
- 1985
- OpsAda3,
Proceedings of the Washington Ada Symposium.
- 1982
- An Experimental Architecture that Supports
Non-Temporal
Prediction,
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.
- Non-Temporal Prediction: A Distributed System For
Concept
Acquisition,
Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference of the CSCSI/SCEIO
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