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PROFESSOR NICK CASSIMATIS
Nick Cassimatis, Ph.D. is
Assistant Professor,
Department of Cognitive Science,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Nick's research aims to understand and create human-level intelligence.
Two
fundamental principles guide this work. First, there is a cognitive
substrate of multiple inference and representation abilities that can
handle reasoning in most or all domains and, second, that the key to
implementing this substrate is to develop methods for more flexibly and
deeply integrating these reasoning and inference techniques. Much of
this work occurs in the
Human-Level-Intelligence Laboratory.
He authored
Polyscheme: a cognitive architecture for integrating multiple
representation and inference schemes,
Grammatical Processing Using the Mechanisms of Physical
Inference, and
A Cognitive Substrate for Achieving Human-Level Intelligence,
and
coauthored
A Cognitive Substrate for Natural Language Understanding,
A Task Domain for Combining and Evaluating Robotics and Cognitive
Modeling Techniques,
On Facts and Conceptual Systems: Young Children's Integration of
Their
Understandings of Germs and Contagion,
Integrating cognition, perception and action through mental
simulation
in robots, and
Children and robots learning to play hide and seek.
Read the
full list of his publications!
Nick earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from MIT and a
master's
degree in psychology from Stanford. He studied artificial intelligence
under Marvin Minsky at the MIT Media Laboratory where he earned his
Ph.D. in 2002. He was an NRC postdoctoral associate at the Naval
Research Laboratory's AI Center between 2002 and 2004.
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