Maria Gini Professor Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science Institute of Technology Distinguished Professor 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 ACM Distinguished Scientist 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

List of Publications

Current Projects

Past Projects

Current Activities

Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
Member of the Board of the Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), 2007-. Co-Director of DREU: Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (formerly known as DMP).
Co-editor with Francesco Amigoni and Wolfgang Ketter of special journal issue on Multi-Agent Systems for Energy Management. Deadline: October 30, 2009. Contact if interested in submitting. Member of the Board of Directors, International Foundation on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS), 2006-2012. Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce and Research Applications, 2006-. Editorial Board, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2007-. Editorial Board, Autonomous Robots, 1993-. Editorial Board, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 1997-. Editorial Board, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS), 2005-. Associate Editor for the IEEE RAS Conference Editorial Board, 2006-

Recent Past Activities

• Member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Executive Council (2005-2008).
• 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.
  

Fall 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/

• Video Project Course - Spring 2009
• CSci 5511 - Artificial Intelligence I - Spring 2009
• CSci 5512 - Artificial Intelligence II - Spring 2004.
• CSci 5980, sec 4 - Legged Robots - Spring 2005
• LS 5100, Sec 15 - Computational Aspects of Intelligence - 2 credits, 7 weeks - Spring 2002.

• Scheme
• Lisp
• Python
• Prolog