Scott Wallace's Professional BiographyScott Wallace received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in August of 2003. During his graduate career, Scott worked under the guidance of John E. Laird and as part of the University of Michigan's Soar Research Group. For the past six years his research has focused on methods for facilitating the design of intelligent agents. In the early part of his career, this took the form of comparing the performance of the Soar and CLIPS agent architectures. Results from this study suggested potential improvements to Soar which he implemented as Soar v. 8.4. More recently, Scott has investigated low-cost methods for validating and debugging complex intelligent agents. His novel approach called Behavior Bounding was the basis for his dissertation work. After serving a brief post-doctoral position in Ann Arbor, Scott traveled for four months through South East Asia and India with his wife, Jennifer. He is now an assistant professor at Washington State University's Vancouver campus. |