Maria Gini

Professor
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science
College of Science and Engineering 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 Keller Hall, 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

Man-Machine Interaction Group, EEMCS building, room 12-120.

Research

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List of Publications

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Current Projects

Distributed Robotics	MAGNET: Intelligent Agents for Electronic Commerce
MinDART (Minnesota Distributed Autonomous Robotics Team)	TAC-SCM: Autonomous Agents for Supply-Chain Management
MinERS: Minnesota Emergency Response Squad	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
	Medlang: Medical Language Study Group

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Current Activities

General co-chair and local chair of AAMAS 2013, the largest conference on agents and multiagent systems, Saint Paul, May 6-10, 2013.
Organizer of MinneWIC, the regional celebration of Women in Computing in the Upper MidWest, February 24-25, 2012 Minneapolis, MN.
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).
Member of the Board of Directors, International Foundation on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS), 2006-2012. Associate Editor, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2007-. Editorial Board, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 1997-. Associate Editor, Robotics and Autonomous Systems , 2011-. Editorial Board, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS), 2005-. Associate Editor for the IEEE RAS Conference Editorial Board, 2006-

Recent Past Activities

Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence, 2003-2010
Member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Executive Council (2005-2008).
Co-editor with Francesco Amigoni and Wolfgang Ketter of special issue of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, on Multi-Agent Systems for Energy Management.
Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce and Research Applications, 2006-2009.
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

Fall 2011

CSci 8551 - Intelligent Agents

Past Courses:

CSci 4511W: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2010
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 5980, sec 4 - Legged Robots - Spring 2005
LS 5100, Sec 15 - Computational Aspects of Intelligence - 2 credits, 7 weeks - Spring 2002.

AI Programming Information

Myro for ECEPS students

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