Excodra XXXVI: La tecnología

HECTOR GEFFNER
Hector was born in Buenos Aires in 1959, did his BS in Caracas, Venezuela, and got
his PhD in Computer Science at UCLA with a dissertation that was co­winner of the
1990 ACM Dissertation Award. He is currently a fellow of the American and
European Associations for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, ECCAI), and Associate
Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and the Artificial
Intelligence Journal (AIJ). He taught at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas,
Aachen University of Technology, Linkoping University, Université Paul Sabatier,
and King's College, among other places. He joined ICREA and the UPF in 2001,
where he is a Professor in the Department of Information and Communication
Technologies (DTIC). Research interests: Hector works on planning and plan
recognition in intelligent systems, developing methods for generating and
recognizing autonomous behavior automatically using model­based methods. In
these methods, agents are not programmed by hand but derive their behavior
automatically by solving a model of the interaction between the agent and the
environment. The challenge is mainly computational as the formulation of methods
for deriving the right behavior effectively when the models are large is
computationally intractable in the worst case. The work involves theory based on
logic, probabilities, heuristics, and algorithms, and computational experiments. The
research is relevant to both artificial intelligence and cognitive science, as it aims to
uncover general principles of rational behavior that take into account the
computational constraints that are present in both natural and artificial systems.
Excodra XXXVI 168 La tecnología