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Students, past and present

Also see my cv for theses supervised.

Undergraduate Research Students

  • Ben Adida worked on the Rethinking CS101 project and 6.096, fall 1996.
  • Jen Alexander spent the summer of 1995 at MIT through the CRA/NSF Distributed Mentor Project. She built a system to do Sound Localization in a Meeting Room during the summer of 1995.
  • Ambreen Amjad worked on Haystack.
  • Joshua Reuben Brown helped develop 6.80s and 6.096 for the Rethinking CS101 project in the summer of 1996.
  • Tim Choe worked on Haystack.
  • Christina Chu worked on Haystack in 1997.
  • Dwaine Clarke worked on Haystack in the summer and fall of 1996.
  • Dominic D'Aleo works on Haystack.
  • Sal Desiano resurrected TJ and wrote a new parser for Natural Communication with Robots (part of the Cognitive Robotics project) in the summer of 1996.
  • Matthew Domsch (Sc.B. 1994) TA'd the first AAAI Robot Building Lab at the 1993 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Washington, DC. He also wrote the 6.270 Organizer's Manual. For more information on 6.270, the student-run MIT robotics course taught each January, see the 6.270 home page.
  • Matt Eldredge supported some of our robots in the early days.
  • Mike Evans worked on TJ in the spring of 1996.
  • Adam Glassman has worked on Haystack since 1999.
  • Ross Goldberg worked on Haystack in 1997.
  • Stephanie Hsu worked on Rethinking CS101.
  • Heji Kim spent the summer of 1995 at MIT through the CRA/NSF Distributed Mentor Project. She worked on Motion Based Multi-person Tracking.
  • Ian Lai has worked on Haystack since 1999.
  • Carol Y. Lee TA'd the first AAAI Robot Building Lab at the 1993 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Washington, DC.
  • Mike Leonida worked on Haystack in 1999.
  • Lili Liu worked on Haystack in the summer and fall of 1996.
  • Damon Mosk-Aoyama has worked on Haystack since 1998 and is currently thinking alot about RDF.
  • Salil Pitroda did his Advanced Undergraduate Project (AUP) on RobotWorld for the Rethinking CS101 project in the spring of 1996.
  • Eric Prebys worked on Haystack in 1997 or so..
  • Jing Qian worked on Haystack in 1997.
  • Orion Richardson worked on Haystack in 1997.
  • Lydia Sandon worked on the Rethinking CS101 project and 6.096, fall 1996.
  • David Shue worked on Haystack in the spring of 1997.
  • Emil Sit worked on the Rethinking CS101 project, including 6.80s (summer 1996), and 6.096 (fall 1996).
  • Maciej Stachowiak worked on the Rethinking CS101 project, including 6.80s (summer 1996), and 6.096 (fall 1996).
  • Nathan Williams worked on the Rethinking CS101 project and 6.096, fall 1996.
  • Henry Wong worked on Rethinking CS101.
  • Tim Tang supported the SensorBots in the early days.
  • Karsten Ulland TA'd the first AAAI Robot Building Lab at the 1993 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Washington, DC and the MIT Robot Building Collaborative in the Fall of '94.
  • Chuck Van Buren worked on Haystack in the summer of 1996.

    • See also the membership lists on the Hal people page and the ap group urop page.

    First Professional Degree (M.Eng.)

  • Eytan Adar (M.Eng. 1998) was a principal architect of the original Haystack system: Hybrid-Search and Storage of Semi-Structured Information.
  • Mark Asdoorian (M.Eng. 1998) contributed much of the basic query memory and original data manipulation infrastructure to Haystack: Data Maniplation Services in the Haystack IR System(215K).
  • Max Bajracharya is working on a simple educational robot kit with Ed Olson.
  • Wendy Chien (M.Eng. 2000) worked on learning in Haystack: Learning Query Behavior in the Haystack System.
  • Craig Henderson (M.Eng. 1999) worked on several of the Rethinking CS101 courses and wrote a thesis on a simulated robot system for the project.
  • Adam Holt (M.Eng. 2000) built a scanning interface for Haystack: Scan Your Life: Integrating OCR Into Your Personal Haystack.
  • Will Koffel is working on a better user interface for Haystack.
  • Ken McCracken is improving the persistant storage model and other parts of Haystack.
  • Joshua Kramer (M.Eng. 1997) worked on SodaBot and the Intelligent Room. His thesis, Agent-Based Personalized Information Retrieval(140K), connected Haystack with SodaBot and The Room.
  • Antonio Mercado Jr. (Sc.M. 1988, Brown University) implemented Hybrid, an object-oriented language that merges delegation and inheritance.
  • Ed Olson is working on a simple educational robot kit with Max Bajracharya.
  • Todd Parnell held the Rethinking CS101 project together from 1997 through 1999, when he convinced me to sign his (unrelated) M.Eng. thesis and let him graduate.
  • Svetlana Shnitser (M.Eng. 2000) glued a database onto the back end of Haystack: Integrating Structural Search Capabilities Into Project Haystack.
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    Graduate Students

  • Ziv Bar-Joseph works on Haystack.
  • Joanna Bryson is writing her dissertation on Behavior Oriented Design, a methodology for building complex intelligent agents.
  • Michael Coen (Sc.M. 1994) developed Sodabot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction System(1.2M; see also the Sodabot home page). After deploying it in the Intelligent Room, he's gone on to build a smaller, smarter version of the Room, called Hal.
  • Ian Horswill (Ph.D. 1993) built Polly, a robot that gives tours of the AI Lab. His thesis, Specialization of Perceptual Processes(603K) was nominated for the ACM Distinguished Dissertation Award and won the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science's Sprowls Award. He's now at Northwestern's Institute for the Learning Sciences.
  • Brian Scassellati (M.Eng. 1995) deduced High-level Perceptual Contours from a Variety of Low-level Physical Features(2.4M) (Morris Joseph Levin Memorial Award for Best Master Works Oral Thesis Presentation), then went on to build visual and attentional systems for Cog.
  • Ellen Spertus (Ph.D. 1998) worked on information access and the world-wide web. She built ParaSite: Mining the Structural Information on the World-Wide Web, a database-like interface to the web that makes it easier to build web tools. She's now on the faculty of Mills College.
  • Jaime Teevan is working on information management, clustering and user interfaces in Haystack.
  • Mark Torrance (Sc.M. 1994) taught T.J. to communicate (more) naturally: Natural Communication with Robots(933K). He did a tour of duty with Cog before settling in to work on the Intelligent Room and Active Notebook. Most recently, he's gone off to become the Stockmaster.
  • Mike Wessler (Sc.M. 1995) built A Modular Visual Tracking System(1.2M; also a less formal description.) He went off to work for Al Gore for a bit, but now he's back working in the Leg Lab (and sometimes on Rethinking CS101 .
  • Holly Yanco (Sc.M. 1994) worked on multiagent learning and adaptable synthetic robot languages: Robot Communication: Issues and Implementations(936K). After a brief stint teaching at Wellesley, she's been working on a robotic wheelchair.

    • Post-docs

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