Robotics Research, Autonomous Systems and the Army Research Lab + AI Integration

Rob St. Amant, Ph.D., is a computer scientist at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Aberdeen, MD. He'll speak at our January 27, 2020 meetup on Robotics Research, Autonomous Systems, and the ARL, and George Zhang will give a shorter talk to present a solution for collaborative AI development.

Doors open at 6 pm for networking and refreshments courtesy of sponsor Miner & Kasch (https://minerkasch.com/) and our program starts at 6:30 pm.

Dr. St. Amant's will summarize current research, across a number of projects, on context-aware decision making as carried out by autonomous ground vehicles. His specific research interest is in understanding how embodied computational agents can reason about and interact effectively with their environments. In a previous life, until 2017, St. Amant was a full professor in the computer science department at North Carolina State University, where he taught classes in AI and HCI; there he supervised a dozen great Ph.D. students and worked with many more undergrads; he also wrote a popular science book, Computing for Ordinary Mortals, which was published by Oxford University Press.

According to George Zhang's company, Nogika, uniform, basic analytical components provide a flexible, open and scalable way for users to build AI applications, especially the large-scale AI applications, separating processing logic from analytical logic to allow building of AI applications without coding at analytical logic levels.