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I am currently looking to hire two graduate students right now, for the
projects described below:

(1) We want to hire a student for further work on our bridge-playing
computer program, which uses AI planning techniques to play the game of
bridge.  Our program won the 1997 World Bridge Computer Challenge (see
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/bridge/ for details); and the work has broad
significance for AI planning, particularly how to plan in the presence of
multiple agents, external information sources, and imperfect information.

The student should have excellent programming skills and should know how to
play bridge.  Depending on the  student's interests and objectives, they
could do work at either the M.S. or Ph.D. level.


(2) We want to hire a student to help us with our work on manufacturing
process planning.  Our approach uses a combination of geometric modeling
and AI planning techniques, and has the potential of producing a high
impact on an important industrial problem (see
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/nau/imacs/ for details).

The student needs to have good programming skills.  A little knowledge of
machining processes would probably help too, but it is not strictly
necessary.  The work would start out as a programming project at the M.S.
level, with excellent prospects for later work at the the Ph.D. level if
the student is interested.

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Prof. Dana Nau                         |  Email: nau@cs.umd.edu
Department of Computer Science,        |  Phone: (301) 405-2684
and Institute for Systems Research     |  Fax:   (301) 405-6707
U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 |  URL:   http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau