David E. Wilkins

SRI International
Artificial Intelligence Center
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA

650-859-2057 650-859-3735 see me at IJCAI-99 in Stockholm

Dr. Wilkins is a Senior Computer Scientist at the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, where he has been since receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1979. He has been principal investigator on numerous projects in planning, execution monitoring, and multiagent problem solving, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1998. He developed a planning and decision aid for Army small unit operations for the DARPA SUO Program and was a design team member for the FCS C4ISR architecture in FCS Phase 1, being responsible for Planning and Decision Aid design. He is currently managing projects on UAV airspace control and on a Cognitive Radio Policy Language (in the DARPA Next Generation Communications Program).

He has published numerous journal articles and his 1988 book, Practical Planning: Extending the Classical AI Planning Paradigm, helped define the planning field and hierarchical planning techniques. He was the principal scientist for the final integrated demonstration for the DARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative (ARPI).

He has been a Visiting Scholar at both Stanford University and the University of Melbourne, and was instrumental in establishing the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute. Mr. Wilkins was President of the Stanford Golf Club in 2005, and on the Board of Directors 2001-2006.

Academic Background

• B.S., majors in Computer Science and Mathematics, Iowa State University, 1972
• M.Sc. in Computing Sciences, University of Essex, 1973
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University, 1979
• Elected a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence in 1998.

Research Areas

• continuous, adaptive planning and execution monitoring
• mixed-initiative planning and problem-solving
• policy-defined cognitive radios
• agent architectures and multiagent planning
• application of technology to real world problems

Projects

• XG Policy Control [Co-Principal Investigator, 2005-2006]
• UAV Airspace Management System [Principal Investigator, 2003-2006, Prime: ISX Corporation]
• AMC Flight Manager Assistant [Principal Investigator 2002-2004] (password required, or see recent papers below)
• SUO Planning and Decision Aids for Small Unit Operations (SUO) [Phase 3 Task Leader for Planning and Decision Aids, 1999-2001, Prime: ITT] (password required, or see recent papers below)
• Reactive, collaborative control of teams of Automated vehicles [2001-2004], and some pictures of the robots, and some videos.
• Future Combat Systems (FCS) [Task Leader, Planning and Decision Aid design, 2000-2001, Full Spectrum Team]
• Multiagent Planning Architecture and a MAPViS demonstration description (MultiAgent Planning and Visualization).
• ARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative (ARPI) IFD-4 description (air campaign planning).
• JFACC program (password required)
• Advisable Planner
• Act formalism
• Planning links

Software Systems

• SIPE-2, System for Interactive Planning and Execution
• PRS, Procedural Reasoning System
• CPEF, Continuous Planning and Execution Framework
• Act-Editor
• Cypress
• Common Lisp HyperSpec, and a local copy.

Bibliography

• Recent Papers and Books
• HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality,

  "David E. Wilkins' comments on HAL's bad planning but impressive improvisation ..... makes for delightful reading"
  --- Paul Preuss, San Jose Mercury News Book Reviews, 12 January 1997.

• Papers on Chess
• Papers on Construction Planning

Apple Computer Info

In the art of living, man is both the artist and the object of his art;
he is the sculptor and the marble; the physician and the patient.
-Erich Fromm (Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics)

Personal and Reference Links, featuring Golf and Apple software

AI Center Home Page
SRI International Home Page

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