George Ferguson @ URCS
Professor (of Instruction) and Co-Director of Undergraduate Program
Dept. of Computer Science
Wegmans Hall 2103
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY USA 14627-0226
ferguson@cs.rochester.edu
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/ferguson
Teaching
Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2023
UR Students’ Association 2018-2019 Professor of the Year in Engineering and Applied Sciences
Present:
- CSC173: Computation and Formal Systems
- CSC254: Programming Language Design and Implementation
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Office hours for Fall 2024:
- Monday 1530-1630 (after CSC173), Tuesday 1030-1130
- Office hours start August 26 and end December 9
Past:
- CSC171: Intro to Computer Science
- CSC173: Computation and Formal Systems
- CSC242: Intro to Artificial Intelligence
- CSC254: Programming Language Design and Implementation
- DMS371/2/3: Junior & Senior Capstones
- DMS102: Intro to Computing and Multimedia
- CSC170: Web Programming
No expiration date:
Research
From 1989 to 2013, I was part of a fantastic inter-disciplinary team working at the intersection of Cognitive Science and Computer Science. We developed Intelligent Conversational Assistants based on deep, formal models of natural language understanding and collaboration. We applied these to problems ranging from logistics to health care to command and control.
Expertise: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents: agent communication languages, agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; User-centered design; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems; Medical informatics: electronic medical records, personal health records, self-care technologies.
— Jon Postel (ed.), RFC 793: Transmision Control Protocol (TCP) Specification, Sept. 1981
— nick@en.ecn.purdue.edu from rec.sport.disc