Pat Langley at Stanford has a strong interests in automated scientific discovery

Pat Langley

Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise
2164 Staunton Court, Palo Alto, CA 94306
(650) 494-3884 (phone); (650) 494-1588 (fax)
langley@isle.org

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I currently serve as Director for the Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise and as Head of CSLI's Computational Learning Laboratory. I am also a Consulting Professor of Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.

My research interests revolve around computational learning and discovery, especially their role in constructing scientific models, architectures for intelligent agents, and adaptive user interfaces.

Research activities:

• Problem-oriented activities:
  • Computational Biology
  • Computational Scientific Discovery
  • Machine Learning for Image Analysis
  • Place Learning for Robot Localization
  • Mining GPS Traces to Improve Digital Maps
  • Adaptive Assistance for Crisis Response
  • Machine Learning for Distributed Traffic Control
  • Learning in Planning and Problem Solving
  • Grammar Acquisition
• Method-oriented activities:
  • Extended Bayesian Classifiers
  • Feature Selection and Case-Based Learning
  • Probabilistic Concept Formation
  • Discrimination Learning
• Methodological activities:
  • Adaptive Interfaces and Personalization
  • Experimental Studies of Intelligence and Learning
  • Average-Case Analyses of Induction and Search
  • Computational Models of Human Behavior
  • Automated Cognitive Diagnosis
  • Cognitive Architectures for Physical Agents
  • Research Methodology

Recent talks

Recent papers

Books

Biography

Curriculum vitae (ps, pdf)

Travel plans

For more information, send electronic mail to langley@isle.org

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