Dana S. Nau is a Professor of Computer Science and

Systems Research A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and expressed ...

at the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science in College Park, where he has done research in

automated planning and scheduling Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...

, cognitive science, and computer-aided engineering. He has many PHD students, including Qiang Yang who graduated in 1989. He has more than 300 publications and several best-paper awards. Some of his accomplishments include the discovery of game tree pathology, the development of the SHOP and SHOP2 HTN planning systems, and the book ''Automated Planning: Theory and Practice'' (). He is a Fellow of the AAAI.

Honors

*1996 – Fellow, AAAI *2013 – Fellow of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Transforming Science and Society
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Dana Nau's home page
Living people University of Maryland, College Park faculty Artificial intelligence researchers American computer scientists Duke University alumni Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery 1951 births {{US-academic-stub