Preparing for the Return to the Moon: From the Space Station mission control center in Houston to simulated missions in Utah and the Arctic.
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Stanford University Technical Reports from the 1980s are available in the ERIC database.
I am a computer scientist, specializing in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. I am interested in developing practical applications by respecting the differences between people and computer systems (human-centered computing).
Recent Presentations:
Being Scientific on Mars
Power Agents video on YouTube
Voyages of Discovery with the
Mars Exploration Rovers
(Conference Version)
(Elementary School Version)
(File system management tool for Space Station operations)
Becoming a Rover
(An
ethnography of the MER scientists. In S. Turkle (Ed.) Simulation and Its Discontents. MIT Press, 2009)
Relating Modes of Thought
(Commentary In T. Bartscherer and R. Coover (Eds.) Switching Codes, "Ontology, Induction, and Semantic Web"—a
dance of the formalists and pragmatists.)
Clear
Speaking about Machines: People are exploring Mars, not robots
(AAAI Workshop: The Human Implications of
Human-Robotic Interaction, Boston 2006.)