I retired in August 2024, but I occasionally teach and work with a remaining PhD student and a recent PhD graduate on research. Over the years, my research, teaching, and service were in artificial intelligence, including machine learning and cognitive modeling. In recent years I focused on the nexus of computational creativity and sustainability. Most recently, and currently, my associates and I are exploring the area of “AI cognition” or “AI cognitive psychology”, addressing questions on whether AIs exhibit behaviors that are analog to human cognitive phenomena, such as typicality, priming, basic level, fan effects, and theory of mind.

I was a faculty member in residence, with my wife, at McGill Hall and Warren College, work for which I received the Chancellor’s Cup in 2006, the KC Potter Award in 2012, and the Outstanding Service Award in 2019.

I served as an NSF Program Director (2007-2010) overseeing AI and ML research awards, as well as contributing to sustainability efforts at NSF, for which I received a Director’s Award for excellence in program management. My experience at NSF is given on the CRA/CCC blog.

Courses listed below include AI, computational creativity, computing and the environment, Ethics of AI, Computation and Cognition, and favorite service courses on the Theory of Formal Languages, Automata, and Computation, for which I am completing a Wikibook, and Program Design and Data Structures.

New Book! Artificial Intelligence for Academic Libraries (2025), Routledge.

I am also primary contact in CS for the Retro Computing exhibit in the CS headquarter space (4th Floor, 1400 18th Ave S), on behalf of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library.

My curriculum vitae.