In 1981, I started pursuing my career in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning research. I earned my Bachelor's with Honors in (then) Computer and Information Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1984; my course work centered on Artificial Intelligence and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. While completing the course-work for a Master's degree at UCSC, I worked in Dominic Massaro's experimental psychology lab (now part of the Perceptual Science Laboratory). In 1985, I transferred to the University of California, Irvine to pursue a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science (but really Machine Learning) with Pat Langley. I completed my dissertation in 1991, implementing and evaluating a computational model of human motor skill learning.
For the thirteen years prior to Westmont, I worked as a Research
Scientist
in
the Artificial
Intelligence
group at NASA Ames Research Center, the FBI's Automated Fingerprint
Identification
Center, as Assistant Director of the Institute
for the Study of Learning and Expertise while also a Visiting
Scholar in
the
Computational Learning
Laboratory,
Center for the Study of
Language
and Information at Stanford
University,
and as Senior Research Scientist at Kanisa
Inc, in Cupertino,
CA.
In 2003, I joined the Mathematics
and Computer Science department at Westmont College in Santa Barbara.
Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Computational Learning Laboratory at Stanford University
last updated: 6/9/2006