Peter Stone is an American computer scientist who is the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Texas at Austin
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. He is also an
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow,
Guggenheim Fellow
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,
AAAI Fellow
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, and
Fulbright Scholar.
Educational background
He received his Ph.D. in 1998 and his M.S. in 1995 from
Carnegie Mellon University, both in Computer Science. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the
University of Chicago
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in 1993.
Career
Stone continued at
Carnegie Mellon
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as a Postdoctoral Fellow for one year. From 1999 to 2002 he was a Senior
Technical Staff Member in the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department at
AT&T Labs
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- Research. He then joined the faculty of Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2007 and full professor in 2012. Stone was an adjunct professor at
NYU
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in AY 2001-02, and a visiting professor at
Hebrew University
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
and
Bar Ilan University
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in AY 2008-09.
Stone co-authored the papers that first proposed the robot soccer challenges around which
Robocup was founded. He is President of the international
RoboCup Federation since July 2019 and was a co-chair of RoboCup-2001 at
IJCAI-01. Peter Stone was a Program Co-Chair of AAMAS 2006, was General Co-Chair of
AAMAS 2011, and was a Program Co-Chair of
AAAI
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-14. He has developed teams of robot soccer agents that have won RoboCup championships in the simulation (1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), in the standard platform (2012) and in the small-wheeled robot (1997, 1998) leagues. He has also developed agents that have won auction trading agents competitions (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013).
Research
Stone describes his research interest as understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents. His research focuses mainly on machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics. Application domains have included robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, autonomic computing, and social agents.
Honors and awards
* 1997, Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research
* 2003, CAREER award from the
National Science Foundation
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for his research on learning agents in dynamic, collaborative, and adversarial multiagent environments.
* 2004, named an
ONR Young Investigator for his research on machine learning on physical robots.
* 2007, awarded the prestigious
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
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, given once every two years to the top AI researcher under the age of 35.
* 2008,
Fulbright Award
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* 2008,
Guggenheim Fellow
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* 2012,
AAAI
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Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
* 2013, awarded the
University of Texas
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System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.
* 2014, inducted into the UT Austin Academy of Distinguished Teachers
References
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1971 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Texas faculty
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Sloan Research Fellows