Henry A. Kautz (born 1956) is a computer scientist, Founding Director of Institute for Data Science and Professor at

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. He is interested in knowledge representation,

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, data science and

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.Henry A Kautz homepage on Rochester
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Biography

Kautz was born in 1956 in

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. Kautz entered the

Case Institute of Technology Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location i ...

in 1974, then a year later, transferred to

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

and got his B.A. in Englishand in mathematics in 1978 there. He wrote plays during a one-year fellowship creative writing program at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

and got an M.A. by the Writing Seminars in 1980. As a foreign student supported by the Connaught Fellowship, he enrolled at

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...

in 1980. Kautz completed his master thesis ''A First-Order Dynamic Logic for Planning'' under the supervision of C. Raymond Perrault, and then received his M.S. in computer science in 1982. Before receiving his Ph.D. from

in 1987 he was a teaching assistant for Patrick Hayes and a teaching assistant and research assistant for his thesis advisor James F. Allen. His PhD thesis was titled ''A Formal Theory of Plan Recognition'' (1987).Henry Kautz CV in Thesis, May 1987
/ref>Henry Kautz CV at University of Washington April 2000
/ref> Kautz was a professor of Computer Science at

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(2000-2006) after worked at AT&T

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and

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. He is now Professor at

and Founding Director of Institute for Data Science after worked as a director of Intelligent Systems at Kodak Research Laboratories (2006-2007).Henry Kautz CV, January 2015
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Selected works

Kautz works on wide areas ranging from planning, knowledge representation and

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to data mining, human computation and crowdsourcing,

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, wearable computers, assistive technology and health.papers of Henry A. Kautz
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Books

* 1991. ''Reasoning About Plans''. (with James F. Allen, R. Pelavin, and J. Tenenberg) Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.

Articles

* 2013. 10-Year Impact Award ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and

Ubiquitous Computing Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing can occur using ...

* 2013. Notable Paper First AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) * 2012. Best Paper Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) * 2005. Best Paper

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International Symposium on

Wearable Computers A wearable computer, also known as a body-borne computer, is a computing device worn on the body. The definition of 'wearable computer' may be narrow or broad, extending to smartphones or even ordinary wristwatches. Wearables may be for general ...

(ISWC) * 2004 & 2006. 1st Place ICAPS Planning Competition (Optimal Track) * 1996 & 2004. Best Paper Conference on

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

(AAAI) * 1993 & 2012. Notable Paper Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) * 1989. Best Paper International Conference on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KRR) * 1988. Best Paper Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI)

Patent

* 1993. ''Optimization of Information Bases''. US patent issued November 1993 * 1997. ''Mechanism for Constraint Satisfaction''. US patent issued June 1997 * 1997. ''Message Filtering Techniques''. US patent issued April 1997

AI Limericks

Henry Kautz created limericks on AI, which can be see
here (retrieved January 14 2015)

Awards and honors

* 1989.

IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royal ...

. : ''the premier award for

researchers under the age of 35''. * 1991.

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Fellow. AAAI FELLOWS
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, from plan recognition to knowledge representation to software agents."'' * 2006. AAAS Fellow.AAAS Fellows
/ref> * 2010-2012. President of

. * 2013. ACM Fellow.ACM Fellows 2013
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and

with applications to assistive technology and health."'' * 2013. 10-Year Impact Award of ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and

. * 2018. ACM-

Allen Newell Award.

References

External links

Henry A Kautz's Home Page

Google Scholar of Henry Kautz

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