UCC Researcher to deliver talk at prestigious US Conference
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UCC Researcher to deliver talk at prestigious US Conference
07.06.2010

Dr Barry O'Sullivan, Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C) will deliver an Invited Talk at AAAI-10, the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA next month.
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (formerly the American Association for Artificial Intelligence) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines. AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of artificial intelligence,   improve the teaching and training of AI practitioners, and provide guidance for research planners and funders concerning the importance and potential of current AI developments and future directions."

Dr O’Sullivan is a senior lecturer in constraints at the Department of Computer Science at UCC. He is the associate director of the Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator, President of the Association for Constraint Programming, Chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland, Coordinator of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Working Group on Constraints, and a member of the Executive Council of the Management Science Society of Ireland. His research interests include real-world applications of artificial intelligence, constraint programming and optimization technologies.

Invited speakers at recent AAAI conferences have included:
•    Marvin Minsky (MIT)
•    Tim Berners-Lee (Director, World Wide Web Consortium)    
•    Peter Norvig (Director of Search Quality, Google)
•    Dan Clancy (Director, Exploration Technologies Directorate, NASA Ames)
•    Sebastian Thrun (Stanford/CMU, Winner DARPA Grand Challenge)
•    Edward Feigenbaum (Stanford, ACM Turing Award Winner)
•    Stuart Russell (Berkeley)

Picture: Dr Barry O'Sullivan

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