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Doug Riecken - Program Officer – Science of Information, Computation, Learning and Fusion

AFOSR - Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Doug has worked for several decades with MIT’s Marvin Minsky. His research includes commonsense reasoning, cognitive architectures/theories of mind, and the role of emotions. He has conducted research in agent based systems, end-user programming, financial predictive modeling, big data analytics, bioinformatics, real-time computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) environments, multimodal reasoning systems, and human/machine learning.

He currently is a Program Officer at AFOSR. Prior assignments include: Interim Director and Senior Scientist for the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia University, Department Head of the Commonsense Computing Research Department at IBM Research, and Department Head for several departments at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories Research. Over the years, Riecken and his departments have created and delivered numerous research contributions, products and services. He has over 70 publications including several best paper awards and keynote addresses while serving on various advisory/editorial boards.