Maria Gini

Professor
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science
Member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 1998-.
Winner of the Inaugural Distinguished Women Scholars Award, University of Minnesota, 2001.
AAAI Fellow, 2008.
IT Distinguished Professor, 2008-.

Areas of interest: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Intelligent Agents.

Address: 4-192 EE/CSci, 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email: gini at cs dot umn dot edu
Office: EE/CSci 5-213, phone: (612) 625-5582, fax: (612) 625-0572

Research

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List of Publications

Not yet complete...

Current Projects

Distributed Robotics	MAGNET: Intelligent Agents for Electronic Commerce
MinDART (Minnesota Distributed Autonomous Robotics Team)	TAC-SCM: Autonomous Agents for Supply-Chain Management
Medlang: Medical Language Study Group	OUTOBOX: Machine Learning Reading Group
Extending the Next Generation Robot Laboratory to Increase Diversity in Undergraduate CS Programs	Poker group

Past Projects

Robot Motion Planning	Planning with Missing Information
Robot Learning	Logical Sensors/Actuators
Navigation with Moving Obstacles	Agents for the Web

Current Activities

Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART).
Member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Executive Council.
Member of the Editorial Board of Autonomous Robots

Recent Past Activities

Co-Chair of the 9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Minneapolis, MN, August 19-22, 2007.
Chair of the 8th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), Minneapolis, MN, July 12-14, 2006.
General Co-Chair for the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), July 15-19, 2002, Bologna, Italy.
Publicity co-chair and invited pleanary speaker for 2002 FIRA Robot World Congress Seoul, Korea, May 26-29, 2002.
General Chair for the 7th Int'l Conf on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-7), March 25-27, 2002, Marina del Rey, CA.

Teaching

Spring 2009

Video Project Course - Spring 2009

CSci 5511 - Artificial Intelligence I - Spring 2009

Past Courses:

IofT 1910w -- Robot Pets - Fall 2006, a freshman seminar using the Sony dogs AIBO.
CSci 1901 - Structure of Computer Programming I - Spring 2007
Watch a video of the 2006 lab using the AIBO dogs or go to YouTube to see the videos of the some type of lab done in 2007. The lab was done in Scheme. Remember, you can do whatever you want in Scheme, even get a dog to dance! [Work partially supported by NSF under grant DUE-CCLI-0511304 and by the Bush Foundation program at the University of Minnesota to improve learning in large classes.]
For more information on the NSF project and the partner universities go to http://faculty.berea.edu/pearcej/aibo/
CSci 5511 - Artificial Intelligence I - Fall 2008
CSci 5512 - Artificial Intelligence II - Spring 2004.
CSci 8551 - Intelligent Agents - Fall 2007
CSci 5980, sec 4 - Legged Robots - Spring 2005
LS 5100, Sec 15 - Computational Aspects of Intelligence - 2 credits, 7 weeks - Spring 2002.