William Jarrold
Current Position
Since September, 2005 I have been working as a computer scientist at
SRI International serving as the
ontologist for the CALO Platform team. CALO (Cognitive Agent that
Learns and Organizes) is a DARPA funded program to develop robust
personal assistant.
Prior Position
From December 2004 through August 2005, I was a post-doctoral research
fellow in the department of computer sciences at the University of
Texas at Austin working as a member of the MFKB Group headed by
Bruce Porter. My role was to support the ontology needs of CALO.
Research Interests
Ontology, knowledge representation and reasoning, evaluation of
knowledge based systems.
Bio
After receiving my B.S. degree in Cognitive and Brain Sciences from
MIT I moved to Austin Texas to work on Cyc, an ambitious and
controversial AI project which aims to encode elementary common sense
in a rule-based system. I worked as an ontologist and programmer on
Cyc for 10 years, first at MCC and then at Cycorp. I enrolled in graduate school and
completed my PhD in Educational Psychology at UT Austin in August
2004. My course of study was cross disciplinary as it involved issues
in knowledge representation and reasoning as well as neuropsychology
and psychological assessment.
Other Research
I have some ongoing work aiming to extend my dissertation which
involved emprical validation of knowledge based content, theory of
mind, and emotion. See Open
Heart Logic and (soon) participate in our web based experiment.
Additional information
Contact Information
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Email: billj@cs.utexas.edu
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Phone: (512) 232-7861
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Mail:
- Bill Jarrold
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Taylor Hall 2.124
- Department of Computer Sciences
- 1 University Station Mail Code C0500
- Austin, Texas 78712
billj@cs.utexas.edu