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Addresses Snail-Mail: Dr William Uther National ICT Australia C/o- Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales NSW, 2052 e-mail: willu at cse.unsw.edu.au office: L5, E313A phone: +61 2 8306 0424

General Stuff

This page is probably always going to be under construction, as I couldn't be bothered spending a huge amount of time on it.

My research

I am interested in autonomous agents. How can we write programs think and learn?

In particular, I'm interested in programming both robots and software agents. How can these agents explore their environemt to complete tasks for us using:

• Trial and error
• Mimicry
• Being taught

My approach is to have the agent build hierarchical internal models of its world. These hierarchical models allow efficient representation of complex worlds.

At the moment I'm working on these agents in a number of different domains:

• Robot Soccer
• Entertainment Agents
• Other simulated domains

I am currently employed as a researcher in the Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition program within National ICT Australia (NICTA). As a program, we are working on how one can acquire symbolic level knowledge from raw senesor data, and then use that symbolic knowledge to generate raw actuator commands.

I have a list of publications online (although it seems to be broken at the moment - I hope to fix it soon).

Classes

• I'm currently teaching Robot Architectures (COMP3431). This is a combined UNSW/NICTA course.

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