Benjamin Kuipers

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Benjamin Kuipers
Born (1949-04-07) 7 April 1949 (age 75)
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Swarthmore College
Occupation(s) Computer Scientist, Professor
Employer University of Michigan
TitleFellow of the AAAI and the AAAS
Website www.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/

Benjamin Kuipers (born 7 April 1949) is an American computer scientist at the University of Michigan, [1] known for his research in qualitative simulation. [2]

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Biography

Kuipers graduated from Swarthmore College in 1970 with a B.A. in Mathematics. He then did two years of alternate service as a conscientious objector to military service, working in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. He began his doctoral studies in pure mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [3] He soon discovered the field of Artificial Intelligence, and spent most of his time at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, where his advisor was Marvin Minsky. He received his PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 1977. He spent a post-doctoral year as a research associate at the MIT Division for Study and Research in Education, funded by a DARPA grant to support collaborative research with BBN psychologist Albert Stevens.

Kuipers joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin in 1985 and became department chair in 1997. In January 2009, he moved to the University of Michigan, where he is now a professor of Computer Science and Engineering. [3]

Kuipers is an elected fellow of the AAAI and the AAAS. [4] [5]

Personal stance on military funding

Kuipers is also well known for his personal stance against accepting military funding for his research. As he explains in his essay, "Why don't I take military funding?", during a DARPA-funded post-doctoral year he discovered that the primary interest in his early work on cognitive maps came from military agencies with the goal of building intelligent cruise missiles. As explained in his essay, he felt that he did not want his life's work to contribute to war. [6]

Selected publications

Articles, a selection: [7]

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References

  1. "Benjamin Kuipers' home page". Benjamin Kuipers. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  2. Kuipers, Benjamin (2001). "Qualitative Simulation". Artificial Intelligence. 29 (3): 289–338. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(86)90073-1.
  3. 1 2 "Benjamin Kuipers' Bio". Benjamin Kuipers. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  4. "Current AAAI Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  5. "AAAS - 2012 Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. November 2012. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  6. "Why don't I take military funding?s". Benjamin Kuipers. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  7. Google Scholar profile