Dana S. Nau

I'm a University of Maryland Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Systems Research. I also have affiliate appointments with the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

My research field is artificial intelligence, more specifically automated planning and game theory. I co-direct the Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics.

• A biographical sketch, in pdf format
• My publication list
• My current and former students

Course notes

• CMSC 421, Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2008)
• CMSC 722, AI Planning (Spring 2008)

Notes on technical writing

• H. J. Tichy: Passive voice and the word "I"
• Strunk & White: 1918 edition of "Elements of Style"
  
• EU translation service: How to write clearly
• Jeffrey Veen: Seven steps to better presentations
• Paul Brians: Common Errors in English

Miscellany

• Photoblog and other personal stuff
• Why I will never fly Continental Airlines again
• My favorite piano technician & tuner

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:	(my last name) @cs.umd.edu
Secretary:	Felicia Chelliah, 301-405-2733

Selected events

May 2008:	Invited speaker at ProMAS-2008
April 2008:	Publication of Yunfei Jiang's Chinese translation of my book on Automated Planning
Aug 2007:	Chair of the International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD-2007)
June 2007:	Invited talk at BISFAI-07 - here's a copy of the slides
.June 2006:	Out of 165 entrants in the 20th Anniversary IPD Competition's "Noise" category, DBS placed third - 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 - here's an updated copy of the slides
June 2005:	Creation of Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics (LCCD)
May 2005:	Workshop on Decision Making in Adversarial Domains
May 2004:	Publication of my book, 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 1997 world championship of computer bridge
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