Don Perlis
Professor Emeritus
4156 Iribe Center
(301) 405-2685
(301) 405-2685
Education:
Ph.D., New York University (Mathematics) and Ph.D., University of Rochester (Computer Science)
Biography:
Don Perlis is a professor emeritus of computer science in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
His research centers on artificial intelligence, particularly commonsense reasoning, autonomous systems that can adapt to new situations, and the philosophical aspects of language, mind and consciousness. Perlis aims to develop AI that learns from mistakes and handles everyday challenges with human-like flexibility.
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Publications
1990
1990. Intentionality and defaults. International J. of Expert Systems. 3:345-354.
1989
1989. Assessing others' knowledge and ignorance. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems.
1989. Some Brief Essays on Mind.
1989. Explicitly biased generalization. Computational Intelligence. 5(2):67-81.
1989. Truth and meaning (research note). Artificial intelligence. 39(2):245-250.
1988
1988. Commonsense set theory. Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection. :87-98.
1988. Autocircumscription. Artificial Intelligence. 36(2):223-236.
1988. Languages with self-reference II : Knowledge, belief, and modality. Artificial Intelligence. 34(2):179-212.
1988. Uniform accountability for multiple modes of reasoning. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 2(3):233-246.
1987
1987. Life on a desert island. Proc. Workshop on The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence. :349-357.
1987. Circumscription as introspection. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Methodologies for intelligent systems. :440-444.
1987. Circumscribing with sets. Artificial Intelligence. 31(2):201-211.
1987. Proving self-utterances. Journal of Automated Reasoning. 3(3):329-338.
1987. How can a program mean. Proceedings of the 10th Int'l Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. :163-166.
1986
1986. A Parallel Self-Modifying Default Reasoning System. AAAI. :923-927.
1986. Intentionality as internality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 9(01):151-152.
1986. On the consistency of commonsense reasoning. Computational Intelligence. 2(1):180-190.
1986. A preliminary excursion into step-logics. Proceedings of the ACM SIGART international symposium on Methodologies for intelligent systems -. :262-269.
1986. Step-logics: An alternative approach to limited reasoning. Proceedings of the European Conf. on Artificial Intelligence. :160-163.
1986. Completeness results for circumscription. Artificial Intelligence. 28(1):29-42.
1986. Self-reference, knowledge, belief, and modality. Proc 5th National Conference on AI. :416-420.
1985
1985. Languages with self-reference I: Foundations. Artificial Intelligence. 25(3):301-322.
1985. Computing protected circumscription. The Journal of Logic Programming. 2(4):235-249.
1984
1984. Non-monotonicity and real-time reasoning. AAAI Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning.
1984. Protected circumscription. Proc. Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning. :337-343.
1984. Applications or Protected Circumscription. 7th International Conference on Automated Deduction, Napa, California, USA, May 14-16, 1984: proceedings. 170:414-414.
1981
1981. A re-evaluation of story grammars*. Cognitive Science. 5(1):79-86.
1977
1977. Utility Functions, Public Goods, and Income Redistribution. Public Finance Review. 5(1):9-22.
1976
1976. An application of compiler simulation at the source language level. The Computer Journal. 19(1):90-90.
1976. Group algebras and model theory. Illinois journal of mathematics. 20(2):298-305.
1972
1972. An extension of Ackermann's set theory. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 37(4):703-704.