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Russ Altman*
Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Medical School. Interested in the application of computing technologies to basic molecular biological problems, aka bioinformatics
Douglas E. Appelt
SRI International. text processing and information extraction; spoken language systems; language generation; speech acts and theory of communication; planning and problem solving
David Barker-Plummer
Senior Researcher, CSLI. Openproof Project. Automated reasoning, diagrammatic reasoning, logic education, literate programming.
Michael Bratman
Professor, Philosophy. Philosophy of mind and action; models of intelligent agency; moral philosophy
Joan Bresnan
Professor, Linguistics. Optimization-based theories of language, theories of typology and universals of grammatical structure. Lexical Functional Grammar, Optimal Syntax, Optimal Typology.
Eve V. Clark
Professor, Linguistics. Psycholinguistics; language acquisition; pragmatics in acquisition and use; lexical semantics.
Herbert H. Clark
Professor, Psychology. Language use; conversation analysis; speech acts; lexical semantics; processes of speaking and understanding
Ann Copestake
University Reader, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Senior Researcher, CSLI, LINGO Project. broad coverage text processing, augmentative and alternative communication, lexical representation, lexical semantics, nonmonotonicity in NLP representation, NL generation and machine translation
Mark Cutkosky
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Keith Devlin*
Executive Director, CSLI. Theories of information, language, and communication.
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Professor, French and Italian and Professor of Philosophy, CREA - Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. Member of the French Academy of Technology. On the Executive Council of the France-Stanford Foundation. Philosophy and History of Cognitive Science; Rational Choice Theory and Game Theory; Moral Philosophy.

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John Etchemendy
Professor, Philosophy. Logic; model-theoretic semantics; visual information and heterogeneous reasoning; computer-aided instruction
Solomon Feferman
Professor, Mathematics and Philosophy. Mathematical logic, foundations of mathematics, history of modern logic.
Daniel Flickinger
Senior Researcher, CSLI, LINGO Project. organization of the lexicon, English syntax, implementation of natural language systems, evaluation of NL systems, handwriting recognition
B. J. Fogg
Senior Researcher, CSLI; Captology -- the theory and design of interactive technologies created to change people's attitudes and behaviors.
Barbara Hayes-Roth
Lecturer, Computer Science. Cognitive psychology; compute agents for children's education
David Israel
Director of the Natural Language Program in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International. Natural Language Processing, representation and reasoning; logic and semantics of natural language; theories of action, mental states, and information.
Shanto Iyengar
Professor, Communication and Political Science, Stanford

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Dan Jurafsky
Associate Professor, Linguistics. Speech Recognition/Understanding/Synthesis, Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Computational Psycholinguistics.
Ronald M. Kaplan
PARC and Consulting Professor, Linguistics. computational linguistics; grammatical theory; finite-state morphology; psycholinguistics
Martin Kay
PARC and Professor, Linguistics. computational linguistics (morphology, syntax, parsing, generation, finite-state devices, unification, and translation)
Paul Kiparsky
Professor, Linguistics. development of models of the lexicon for natural language: lexical phonology and morphology, linking theory
Daphne Koller
Associate Professor, Computer Science. Reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, learning probabilistic models from data
Kurt Konolige
SRI International. formal models of goals, intentions, and belief; theories of integration of perception and cognition; causal and default reasoning
Pat Langley*
ISLE, MindShadow, and Consulting Professor, Symbolic Systems, Machine learning, adaptive user interfaces, knowledge discovery, and intelligent agents.
Larry Leifer*
Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Distributed team innovation; knowledge sharing technology; and personal learning portfolios.
Albert Liu
CSLI Senior Researcher
Elizabeth Macken
Senior Researcher, CSLI and Senior Research Engineer, EPGY. Distance mathematics teaching for first- through eighth-grade gifted students; applications in American Sign Language for deaf students.
Chris Manning
Assistant Professor, Computer Science" and Linguistics. Natural language processing (probabilistic models and statistical NLP, parsing, information extraction and text mining), computational lexicography, and syntactic typology.
John McCarthy
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science. Formal reasoning group, AI emphasizing logic for representation and reasoning.
Grigori Mints
Professor, Philosophy and (by courtesy) Computer Science. Logic, its applications to philosophy, computer science and linguistics; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics
Julius Moravcsik
Professor, Philosophy. Lexical semantics, dynamic aspects of meaning, cognitive representation of natural language structures.

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Clifford Nass
Professor, Communication. social responses to communication technology; social-psychological theories of human-computer interaction; modality effects; formal models of information flow; statistical methodology
John Niekrasz
Computational Semantics Lab, CSLI.
Nils J. Nilsson
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science. Artificial intelligence; intelligent, communicating agents; agent architectures
Geoff Nunberg
Consulting Professor, Linguistics. semantics and pragmatics; written and graphical languages; social contexts of language use
Stephan Oepen
Director of Multilingual Engineering at YY Software and a permanent member of our LINGO Project.
Elizabeth Bratt Owen
Research Engineer, Computational Semantics Lab, CSLI
Marc Pauly
Assistant Professor, Philosophy.
Roy Pea*
Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences and Director of SCIL
Deanne Perez-Granados
Assistant Professor, School of Education. Cognitive and language development, new technologies and children's conceptual development; sociocultural approach to teaching and learning in the family context; transitions from learning in the home context to learning in early schooling contexts
Ray Perrault
SRI International. logic; semantics of natural language; speech act theory; AI, in particular reasoning about action and mental state; natural-language processing; mathematical linguistics
John Perry*
Professor, Philosophy. Philosophy of mind; philosophy of psychology; philosophy of AI; heterogeneous systems of communication and representation
Stanley Peters*
Professor, Linguistics. Situation theory and situation semantics; theory of information content; logic programming based on situation theory; cooperative software; mathematical properties of grammars; parallel processing; machine-aided translation
Vaughan Pratt
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, and Chairman, Tiqit Computers Inc.. Handheld and wearable technology, speech processing, wireless communication, models of concurrent behavior, Chu spaces, logics of action, algebraic and transformational logics.
Matthew Purver
Engineering Research Associate, Computational Semantics Lab, CSLI
Byron Reeves*
Paul C. Edwards Professor, Communication. Social and natural responses to communication technologies, psychological processing of media, picture perception, experimental aesthetics, psychological effects of advanced media displays
Duska Rosenberg
Professor, Royal Holloway University of London. Application of linguistics and descriptive social science to systems design; collaborative computing; AI; application of situation theory in human communication and interaction
Stan Rosenschein
Robotics; logic of perception and control; semantics of embedded systems; natural-language processing

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Ivan A. Sag
Professor, Linguistics. Grammatical theory; English syntax; semantics of natural language; natural-language processing (human and computer); Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar; LINGO Project
Karl Schultz
Computational Semantics Lab, CSLI
Daniel Schwartz
Associate Professor, School of Education. Teachable agents, physical imagery, learning and instruction in science and mathematics, semiotic maturation.
Peter Sells
Professor, Linguistics. syntactic theory; Japanese and Korean morpho-syntax; Scandinavian syntax; Optimality Theory in syntax and morphology
Ross D. Shachter
Associate Professor, Management Science and Engineering. Senior Researcher, CSLI. Representation and analysis of uncertainty and medical decision analysis.
Yoav Shoham
Professor, Computer Science. Artificial intelligence, in particular theories of agents, logics of knowledge, time and default, and relations between symbolic reasoning and sensory-motor activities
Paul Skokowski
Consulting Associate Professor, Symbolic Systems. Philosophy of mind, particularly the nature of mental content and conscious experience, and internet behavior. Other research interests are epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of science.
Patrick Suppes
Lucie Stern Professor Emeritus, Philosophy. Logic; natural-language learning interface for robotic systems
Kenneth Taylor
Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Science, Theories of Rationality
Claire Tomlin
Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics. Developing a control system for networks of aircraft using dialogue systems
Syun Tutiya
Professor, Chiba University. Philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of language, semantics and pragmatics of Japanese, modeling of dialog and conversation, issues in transcription and use of electronic texts, human/computer interaction
Barbara Tversky*
Professor, Psychology. Spatial thinking, language, and memory; comprehension and production of diagrams/text, including animations; cognitive maps and navigation; eyewitness memory.
Johan van Benthem
Professor, Philosophy (Stanford and Amsterdam, ILLC). Philosophy of logic, modal and dynamic logic, applications to natural language
Sebastian Varges
Engineering Research Associate, Computational Semantics Lab, CSLI
Thomas Wasow*
Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy; Symbolic Systems Program. Grammatical structure and language use; language processing; linguistic methodology.
Terry Winograd*
Professor, Computer Science. Theory of human-computer interaction; design of interactive environments for collaborative work.
Edward N. Zalta
Senior Research Scholar, CSLI. Metaphysics and ontology, philosophy of language and intensional logic, philosophy of mind and intentionality, philosophy of mathematics. Principal Editor, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Project.

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