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Robert A. Morris

Associate Professor, Computer Science Program,

Florida Institute of Technology

150 W. University Blvd. Melbourne, FL 32901

Last Updated: February 18, 1999


Brief Professional Summary

Robert Morris received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Indiana University in 1984. His interests in philosophy of language and logic led him to pursue a career in Computer Science. He received a fellowship to enter the graduate program in Computer Science at Wright State University in 1985, which he completed with an M.S. in 1986. He has since been teaching at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, having achieved the rank of Associate Professor in 1993. His research interests in Artificial Intelligence include reasoning about time, scheduling, heuristic-based search, diagnostic reasoning, and issues in the foundations of AI. He is a founding member of FLAIRS (Florida AI Research Society) and is currently on the editorial board of AAAI Press.


Some Recent Publications

(I am sole or first author unless otherwise indicated)

Topic Title Publication and Date
Temporal Reasoning Domain Independent Temporal Reasoning With Recurring Events Computational Intelligence, 1997
Periodic and Repeating Events Forthcoming in Handbook of Time in AI
Diagnostic Reasoning
A Relational Characterization of Component Models for Diagnosis International Journal of Expert Systems, 1997
An integrated Model-based Approach for Real-time On-line Diagnosis of Complex Systems (first author: McKenzie) Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 1998
Model-based, Real-time Control of Electrical Power Systems (first author: Gonzalez) IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1996
Heuristic Search and CSP Automatic Generation of Heuristics For Scheduling Proceedings of IJCAI-97, 1997
Optimizing Observation Scheduling Objectives (Bresina, first author) Proceedings of the NASA Planning and Scehduling Workshop, Oxnard, CA 1997.
Foundations of AI Summary of AAAI-97 Workshop on AI and Chess ICCA Journal, forthcoming; AI Magazine, forthcoming



Recent Professional Highlights


Links to Courses I Teach

  • Formal Languages and Automata Theory

  • Link to Database Textbook and course materials

    Database Course Syllabus.

  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence


  • Recommended Reading

    Scott DeVaux "The Birth of Bebop" .

    Robert Coover, "Ghost Town" .

    Recommended Listening

    Dizzy Gillespie, The Complete RCA Sessions (Bluebird)

    The Indispensible Fletcher Henderson (RCA)

    Anything by the English Consort, conducted by Pinnock

    Anything by Kate Campbell .

    
    
     

    Comments or questions can be mailed to morris@cs.fit.edu.

    Full resume in postscript format.