Dana S. Nau

I'm a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and the Institute for Systems Research. I'm also an affiliate professor in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

I do research in artificial intelligence, especially automated planning and game theory. V.S. Subrahmanian and I co-direct the Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics.

• My publication list
• My current and former students and research scientists
• A brief bio (html) and a 2-page NSF-style bio (pdf)

Course notes

• CMSC 421, Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2010)
• CMSC 722, AI Planning (Fall 2009)
• CMSC 828N, Game Theory (Spring 2009)

Notes on writing and presentations

• Bartleby.com: English Usage, Style & Composition
• Paul Brians: Common Errors in English
• EU translation service: How to write clearly
• Jack Lynch: Guide to Grammar and Style
• H. J. Tichy: Passive voice and the word "I"
• Jeffrey Veen: Seven steps to better presentations
• Phillip Kerman: Edward Tufte’s Presentation Tips

Miscellany

• Photoblog and other personal stuff
• My favorite piano tuner
• Why I will never fly Continental Airlines again
• Masterminds of Artificial Intelligence V1 and V2

How to contact me

Mail:	Professor Dana S. Nau University of Maryland Dept. of Computer Science    A. V. Williams Building College Park, MD 20742
Phone:	301-405-2684
Fax:	301-405-6707
Web:	http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau
Email:	nau&cs.umd.edu  (replace ‘&’ with ‘@’)
Secretary:	Felicia Chelliah, 301-405-2773

Selected events

Sept 2009:	Honorable mention for the ICAPS influential paper award
Sept 2009:	Invited keynote talk at KI-2009
Sept 2008:	Invited talk at ICCCD-2008
Sept 2008:	RFF won the Fully Observable Probabilistic track of the International Planning Competition
May 2008:	Invited talk at ProMAS-2008
Apr 2008:	Automated Planning: Theory and Practice has been translated into Chinese by Prof. Yunfei Jiang (Sun Yat-Sen University)
Aug 2007:	Chair of ICCCD-2007
June 2007:	Invited talk at BISFAI-07
June 2006:	DBS placed third out of 165 entrants in the IPD Competition's "noise" category (and first among programs that didn't have "slave" programs feeding points to them)
May 2006:	Silver medal for our kriegspiel program at the 11th International Computer Games Olympiad
Aug 2005:	Invited talk at AAAI-05
June 2005:	Lab. for Computational Cultural Dynamics (LCCD) created
May 2005:	Workshop on Decision Making in Adversarial Domains
May 2004:	Publication of Automated Planning: Theory and Practice
Sept 2002:	Award for the best research paper at ECCBR-2002
Apr 2002:	"Distinguished performance" award for SHOP2 in the 2002 International Planning Competition
Sept 1999:	Finalist for the best paper award at ICCBR-99
July 1997:	Bridge Baron won the world computer bridge championship
July 1996:	Elected to AAAI Fellow
Sept 1994:	Best paper award at the ASME CIE '94 conference
July 1991:	Honorable mention for best written paper at AAAI-91