Peter Stone (computer scientist)
Peter Herald Stone (born July 13, 1971 in Buffalo (New York) ) is an American computer scientist.
Stone studied mathematics at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1993 and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University with a master's degree in 1995, where he received his doctorate in 1998 with Manuela Veloso (Layered Learning in Multi-Agent Systems). He then conducted research at ATT Laboratories from 1999 to 2001 and was adjunct professor at New York University in 2001/02. He has been Assistant Professor since 2002, Associate Professor in 2007 and Professor in 2012 at the University of Texas at Austin , where he founded the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) and is its director. In 2014 he became David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor .
He deals with multi -agent systems and learning in them in complex, dynamic environments, robotics (such as autonomous processes, robotic soccer), e-commerce (such as autonomous agents when bidding) and machine learning .
He was also a team leader at the US Open Championship and a member of the team at RoboCup's twelve World Championship .
In 2008/09 he was visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Bar Ilan University. In 2015 he co-founded Cogitai Inc.
In 2007 he received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award . He is a Fellow of the AAAI and was a Sloan Research Fellow (2004–2006) and Guggenheim Fellow (2008/09).
Fonts
- with Michael Wellman, Amy Greenwald: Autonomous bidding agents: strategies and lessons from the trading agent competition, MIT Press 2007
- Intelligent autonomous robotics: a robot soccer case study, Morgan and Claypool 2007
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stone, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stone, Peter Herald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buffalo (New York) |