nick cassimatis hbixagrpiedu funding postdoc humanlevel intelligence laboratory rensselaer department cognitive science little flexibility start date sooner better postdoc would involved one following two projects 1 studying adapt generalpurpose inference approaches sat solving inference probabilistic graphical models larger realworld problems creating extensions algorithms deal time equality object parts firstorder relations etc approach enables solutions hard problems parsing slam object tracking motion planning human intention recognition goal find relatively small set extensions enable reasoning wide array domains following articles motivate approach nl cassimatis 2006 cognitive substrate humanlevel intelligence ai magazine volume 27 number 2 n l cassimatis et al 2007 architecture adaptive algorithmic hybrids proceedings aaai07 2 developing questionanswering system combines reasoning world reasoning peoples intentions sentence parsing goal able ask system specific question get specific answer instead long list search results project needs people interested knowledgeable computational linguistics humanlanguage grammar pragmatics andor automated inference techniques interested position please respond address nicholas l cassimatis assistant professor cognitive science rensselaer polytechnic institute cassin rpi dot edu thu 07 aug 2008 192009 0400 uai postdoctoral position rpi