David E. Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence Center
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA

Phone: 650-859-2057 Fax: 650-859-3735 see me at IJCAI-99 in Stockholm

Dr. Wilkins is a Senior Computer Scientist at the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, where he has been since receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1979. He has been principal investigator on numerous projects in planning, execution monitoring, and multiagent problem solving, and was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1998.

Recently, Dr. Wilkins has been Proposal Manager or Technical Volume Manager on several large proposals, including SRI's winning bids on DARPA's RAM Replay, Machine Reading, and Bootstrapped Learning Programs, and on IARPA's BEST and FUSE programs. He has extensive project management experience and is currently project manager for multiple large projects.

He developed a planning and decision aid for Army small unit operations for the DARPA SUO Program and was a design team member for the FCS C4ISR architecture in FCS Phase 1, being responsible for Planning and Decision Aid design.

He was the author of SIPE, and in 2013, recorded a 7-minute video giving a historical overview of the SIPE HTN planning system.

He has published numerous journal articles and his 1988 book, Practical Planning: Extending the Classical AI Planning Paradigm, helped define the planning field and hierarchical planning techniques. He was the principal scientist for the final integrated demonstration for the DARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative (ARPI).

He has been a Visiting Scholar at both Stanford University and the University of Melbourne, and was instrumental in establishing the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute. Mr. Wilkins was President of the Stanford Golf Club in 2005, and on the Board of Directors 2001-2006.

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Academic Background

• B.S., majors in Computer Science and Mathematics, Iowa State University, 1972
• M.Sc. in Computing Sciences, University of Essex, 1973. Thesis adviser: Prof. Pat Hayes.
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University, 1979. Thesis adviser: Prof. John McCarthy, on wikipedia.
  John McCarthy Memoir by Nils Nilsson (for National Acadamey of Sciences). From the memoir:

  During the late 1960s and 1970s, SAIL [Stanford AI Lab] was a shining example of what a community of very bright faculty, students, and staff could accomplish when provided with adequate funding, powerful computers, peripheral equipment (such as display devices and printers) and associated software. ... The foundations for graphical user interfaces and printers, computer typesetting and publishing, speech recognition, computer vision and robotics, computer music, and other technologies that are now parts of our everyday lives all got their start at SAIL's facilities in the Stanford foothills.

• Elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1998.

Research Areas

• continuous, adaptive planning and execution monitoring
• mixed-initiative planning and problem-solving
• policy-defined cognitive radios
• agent architectures and multiagent planning
• application of technology to real world problems

Projects

• ENCODERS (Edge Networking with Content-Oriented Declarative Enhanced Routing and Storage), SRI's Project in DARPA's CBMEN Program (Content-Based Mobile Edge Networking Progam), 2013-2014.
• Copernicus, SRI's project in IARPA's Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE) Program, 2011-2014.
• Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System, 2010-2012.
• FAUST (Flexible Acquisition and Understanding System for Text), part of the DARPA Machine Reading program., 2009-2013.
• Coordinated Multi-Agent Team Reasoning and Incremental eXecution, part of the DARPA Coordinators program., 2005-2009.
• XG Policy Control, and a summary for the AI Center. [Co-Principal Investigator, 2005-2007]
• UAV Airspace Management System [Principal Investigator, 2003-2007, Prime: ISX Corporation]
• Automating Exception Handing with Dynamic, Collaborative Scheduling, the AMC Flight Manager Assistant. [Principal Investigator 2002-2004]
• Integrated Battle Command (rolling start). [Principal Investigator, 2004, Prime: SAIC]
• SUO Planning and Decision Aids for Small Unit Operations (SUO) [Phase 3 Task Leader for Planning and Decision Aids, 1999-2001, Prime: ITT]
• Reactive, collaborative control of teams of Automated vehicles [2001-2004], and some pictures of the robots, and some videos.
• Future Combat Systems (FCS) [Task Leader, Planning and Decision Aid design, 2000-2001, Full Spectrum Team]
• The Multiagent Planning Architecture, which integrated technologies that spanned plan generation, scheduling, temporal reasoning, simulation, and visualization, in the DARPA/Rome Planning Initiative's flagship demonstration: MAPViS demonstration description (MultiAgent Planning and Visualization). [Principal Investigator 1997-2001, Principal Scientist of the MAPViS demonstration].
• ARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative (ARPI) IFD-4 description (air campaign planning).
• JFACC program (password required)
• Advisable Planner
• Act formalism
• Planning links

Software Systems

• cScape is a graphical user interface for creating, displaying, and manipulating CTAEMS task structures.
• SIPE-2, System for Interactive Planning and Execution
• PRS, Procedural Reasoning System
• CPEF, Continuous Planning and Execution Framework
• Act-Editor
• Cypress
• Common Lisp HyperSpec, and a local copy.

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he is the sculptor and the marble; the physician and the patient.
-Erich Fromm (Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics)

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