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History
Since its foundation in 1983, the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
has been the host for hundreds of researchers, PhD students, visiting
professors and students. Below you will find the names of some of
these people and links to their present webpages. We also provide a
list of and some links to projects at that were carried out at the AI
Lab. We are working on extending this archive, to get it as complete as
possible. If you have anything to add, please contact send an email to
webmaster@arti.vub.ac.be.
Brochure, images and video's
Some previous projects
- Krest and Construct (ca. 1992-1994), funded
by the Belgian Ministry of Sciences through the IUAP programme
- KADS (ca. 1992-1994)
- Geomed (1996-1998), funded by the
Commission of the European Communities, Directorate Generale XIII
- COMRIS: Co-Habited Mixed Reality
Information Spaces (ca. 1997-2000), funded by the European
Commission DG III Industry.
- Magica (ca. 1996-1997) (see
also Ecran, Ecran96 and the Ecran AAAI '97
paper), funded through the 4th Framework
Telematics Application Programme - Information Engineering area of
DGXIII of the European Commission
- Software Agents for Cooperative
Environment Administration (1995-1997), funded by the Belgian
Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs
- Networked Multimedia Services
(1995-1998), funded by the Flemish Institute for Promotion of
Scientific-Technological Research in the Industry (I.W.T.)
- RoboCube, the hardware part of the Cube
project.
- CubeOS, the software part of the Cube project
- RoboGuard, a robotic guard project based
on the RoboCube.
- the Talking Heads experiment
(1998-2000), in collaboration with Sony CSL-Paris
Some previously (co-) organized events
Graduated PhD students
- Viviane
Jonckers (1986) A framework for modelling programming knowledge.
Currently: Professor of computer science VUB, Belgium. Head of
Research group in system and software engineering SSEL. Vice-Dean of the Faculty
of Sciences.
- Pattie
Maes. (1987) Computational Reflection.
Past: National Science Foundation Fellow, Belgium, Professor of media,
arts and sciences, MIT, USA. Head of a group on software agents in the
MIT Media Lab.
Currently: independent capitalist in USA.
- Walter Daelemans
(1987) An object-oriented model of Dutch morphophonology. (Linguistics
Ph.D. at KUL).
Past: Founding director of Induction of
Linguistic Knowledge research group at University of Tilburg.
Current: Professor of computational linguistics at University of
Antwerpen and research director at the Centrum voor Nederlandse Taal en
Spraak.
- Walter Van
de Velde. (1988) Learning from Experience.
Past: researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, USA,
National Science Foundation Fellow, Belgium, director of
research STAR Lab (Belgium).
- Kris Van Marcke. (1988) The Knowledge Representation System KRS
and its implementation.
Past: researcher Dida*El (Milan), director of Knowledge Technologies,
n.v. Brussels.
- Bernard
Manderick. (1992) A selectionist classification model.
Past: researcher at ElectroTechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan,
Current: professor of computer science VUB, Belgium. Head of research
group at VUB on adaptive systems (COMO
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- Jo De Cuypere. (1992) An analogical representation of fluids.
Past: Advisor ministery of science, Belgium (Flemisch Government)
Current: Van Overstraeten
Foundation , a non-profit organisation promoting micro-electronics
to young researchers.
- Johan Van Welkenhuyse (1993) Participative Conceptual System
Design of Industrial Knowledge Systems.
Past: researcher Osaka University, Japan. Researcher at INRIA, Sophia
Antipolis. Researcher Knowledge Technologies, n.v. Brussels.
Current: Mediagenix,
N.V. Brussels.
- Tony Bell (1993) A
self-organisation principle for the dynamics of neurons.
Current: researcher at Salk
Institute , San Diego, USA.
- Piet Spiessens (1993) A parallel fine-grained genetic algorithm.
Past: Researcher at Belgacom, Brussels.
Current: Project leader at Telenet, n.v.
- Didier Keymeulen (1994)
Past: Researchers at Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba.
Current: Researcher at Jet Propulsion Labs, Pasadena, Ca, USA. Center for Integrated Space
Microsystems . Head of a group on evolvable hardware.
- Josefina Sierra
(1996) Formal knowledge level models for software agents.
Past: Researcher at Stanford, USA (with John McCarthy).
Current: Professor of Computer Science at the Autonoma University Madrid, Spain.
- Aurelien Slodzian
(co-graduated at University of Paris, Jussieu) (1998) A Componential
Methodology for Modeling Multi-Agent Cooperation.
Current: Independent consultant in knowledge engineering.
- Bart de Boer.
(1999) The self-organisation of vowels.
Past: Researcher at the
Center for mind, brain and learning. , Seattle, USA.
Current: VUB post-doctoral researcher at AI Lab. Heading group on
evolutionary phonetics.
- Edwin de Jong
(1999) Autonomous Formation of Concepts and Communication. download
Current:
Post-doctoral Researcher at the Dynamical and Evolutionary Machine
Organization group Brandeis University, USA.
- Frederic Kaplan (2000) (graduated at University of Paris, Jussieu;
official promotor Alexis Drogoul)
Current: Researcher at the Sony
Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France.
- Paul Vogt (2000)
Lexicon Grounding on Mobile Robots. download
Current: Institute of Knowledge
and Agent Technology Maastricht, the Netherlands.
- Sabine
Geldof (2000) (Linguistics Ph.D. University of Antwerp. Official
promotor: Walter Daelemans) Context-sensitivity in advisory text
generation.
Current: Research Fellow Department of Computing. Macquarie University
of Sydney, Australia.
- Holger Kenn (2001)
CubeOS. A component-based operating system for autonomous systems.
Current: Researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany.
- Tony Belpaeme (2002) Factors influencing the
origins of colour categories.
Current: Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, UK.
- Joris Van Looveren (2005) Design and Performance
of Pre-Grammatical Language Games.
Some of the other previous lab members
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