EMBODIMENT INFORMS COGNITION
(NSF YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD)

Lynn Andrea Stein

MIT AI Lab
Cambridge, MA

CONTACT INFORMATION

Lynn Andrea Stein, MIT AI Lab, 545 Technology Square #811, Cambridge, MA 02139

(617) 253-2663
FAX: (617) 253-5060
las@ai.mit.edu

WWW PAGE

http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/las

PROGRAM AREA

Other (Cognitive Robotics, HCI, and Computer Science Education)

KEYWORDS

Artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, software agents, HCI, intelligent software systems, knowledge representation, computer science education.

PROJECT SUMMARY

By imagining as well as actually exploring the world, a mobile robot radically alters its cognitive capabilities. By agreeing as a society on the interpretation of arbitrary signals in terms of experiences, robots develop symbolic compositional language. These and other projects bridge the reactive-robotic/cognitive-AI gap.

This award covers research into cognitive architectures and embodied agents. Professor Stein and her students have completed the following work, under this grant:

In the future, we intend to continue our agenda with particular emphasis on the following:

PROJECT REFERENCES

Brooks, R. A., and L. A. Stein, ``Building Brains for Bodies,'' Autonomous Robotics 1 (1), 7--25, 1994.

Coen, M. H., Letter to the Editor, AI Magazine 15 (2), 9--10, Summer 1994.

Coen, M. H., ``SodaBot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction System,'' student abstract in Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, Washington, August 1994.

Coen, M. H., ``SodaBot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction System,'' MIT AI Lab Technical Report 1493, November 1994.

Coen, M. H., ``SodaBot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction System (Extended Abstract)'' in Proceedings CIKM '94 --- Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, November, 1995.

Horswill, I. D., and L. A. Stein, ``Life after Planning and Reaction,'' AAAI Fall Symposium on the Control of Intelligent Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1994.

Stein, L. A., ``Intelligence and Reason: A Response to Etzioni,'' Letter to the Editor, AI Magazine 15 (2), 11--12, Summer 1994.

Yanco, Holly A., ``Robot Communication: Issues and Implementation,'' Sc.M. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. May 1994.

Brooks, R. A., and L. A. Stein, ``Building Brains for Bodies,'' AIAA/NASA Conference on Intelligent Robots for Field, Factory, Service, and Space, Houston, Texas, March 1994.

Torrance, M. C., ``Two Case Studies in Active Language Use,'' AAAI Spring Symposium on Active Natural Language Processing, Stanford, CA, March 1994.

Torrance, M. C., ``Natural Communication with Mobile Robots,'' Sc.M. Thesis, January 1994.