Dustin Arthur Smith I am a PhD student in the Media Lab researching the intersection of planning and natural language processing. My advisors are Henry Lieberman and Marvin Minsky. My long-term goal is to make computers understand English in a similar functional capactity as people. This research treads many academic topics: machine reading and story understanding, event structures and lexical semantics, semantic role labeling, statistical relational learning, sequence mining, event recognition and extraction, planning, plan recognition, metacognition and self-modeling. | ![]()
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I'm fortunate to work with people who share boundless enthusiasm and dedication toward their work. In particular, these collaborators and colleagues have had a profound impact on my thinking: Ken Arnold, Walter Bender, Ian Eslick, Errin Fulp, Catherine Havasi, Mako Hill, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Henry Lieberman, Hugo Liu, Sean Markan, Marvin Minsky, Bo Morgan, Push Singh, Rob Speer, Scotty Vercoe.
In Memory of Push Singh
(1972-2006)
Push was a brilliant mentor and wonderful person. Visit his homepage and consider contributing to the memorial fund in his name.