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.

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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
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Dana Nau

Selected events

Aug 2007 - International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD-2007)
June 2007 - Invited talk at BISFAI-07 - here's a copy of the slides
Mar 2007 - My book is being translated into Chinese
June 2006 - Out of 165 entrants in the 20th Anniversary IPD Competition's "Noise" category, DBS placed third - and first among programs that weren't in "master and slaves" teams
May 2006 - Our kriegspiel program won a silver medal 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 - SHOP2 won a "distinguished performance" award 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 the best paper award at AAAI-91