George Ferguson @ URCS

Professor (of Instruction) and Co-Director of Undergraduate Program
Dept. of Computer Science
Wegmans Hall 2103
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY USA 14627-0226
tel: 585-275-5766
fax: 585-473-4556
ferguson@cs.rochester.edu
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/ferguson
Teaching
UR Students’ Association 2018-2019 Professor of the Year in Engineering and Applied Sciences
Present:
- CSC173: Computation and Formal Systems
- CSC242: Intro to Artificial Intelligence
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Office hours for Spring 2023:
- Tue 1115-1230 (after CSC242) and Wed 1030-1145
- Office hours start Wednesday January 11 and end Wednesday May 3
Past:
- CSC171: Intro to Computer Science
- CSC173: Computation and Formal Systems
- CSC242: Intro to Artificial Intelligence
- DMS371/2/3: Junior & Senior Capstones
- DMS102: Intro to Computing and Multimedia
- CSC170: Web Programming
No expiration date:
Research
From 1989 to 2013, I was part of a fantastic inter-disciplinary team working at the intersection of Cognitive Science and Computer Science. We developed Intelligent Conversational Assistants based on deep, formal models of natural language understanding and collaboration. We applied these to problems ranging from logistics to health care to command and control.
Expertise: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents: agent communication languages, agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; User-centered design; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems; Medical informatics: electronic medical records, personal health records, self-care technologies.
— Jon Postel (ed.), RFC 793: Transmision Control Protocol (TCP) Specification, Sept. 1981
— nick@en.ecn.purdue.edu from rec.sport.disc