Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Automated Planning
- Knowledge Representation
- Child Psychology
- Sociometrics
- Peer relations
Selected Publications and Presentations
Using Task-Based Modeling to Generate Scaffolding in Narrative-Guided Exploratory Learning Environments, Thomas, J. M., and Young, R. M.,
In AIED-09 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 107-114.
Dynamic Guidance in Digital Games, Thomas, J. M., and Young, R. M.,
In AIED-09 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education Workshops Proceedings, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 107-114.
Toward a Domain-Independent Framework to Automate Scaffolding of Task-based Learning in Digital Games, Thomas, J. M., and Young, R. M.,.,
In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games, April 26-30, 2009, ACM, New Your, NY, USA, 331-332.
Becoming
Scientists: Employing Adaptive Interactive Narrative to Guide
Discovery Learning, Thomas, J. M., and Young, R. M.,
In Proceedings of the AIED-07 Workshop on Narrative Learning
Environments, Marina Del Rey, California, USA, 2007
Author
in the Loop: Using Mixed-Initiative Planning to Improve Interactive
Narrative,
Thomas J.M., Young, R.M., Author in the Loop: Using Mixed-Initiative
Planning to Improve Interactive Narrative. In Proceedings of
the ICAPS-06 Workshop on Preferences And Soft Constraints for Planning,
Cumbria, UK, 2006
Elicitation
and Application of Narrative Constraints Through Mixed-Initiative Planning, Thomas,
J. M., and Young, R. M., . In Proceedings
of the
ICAPS-06 Workshop on
AI Planning for Computer Games and Synthetic
Characters,
Cumbria, UK, 2006
Strengthening
Sociometric Prediction: Scientific Advances in the Assessment
of Children's Peer Relations, DeRosier M.E., Thomas J.M., Child
Development, October 2003, vol. 74, no. 5, pp. 1379-1392(14)
A.I.:
Will Those Evil Robots Win?,
Thomas J.M., Presentation to Cary Academy Middle School,
February 2007.
“The ‘Dangerfield Principle’ in
Voice Over Packet Systems”, Internet Telephony, February 2003,
http://www.tmcnet.com/it/0203/0203nort.htm
“Let There Be (More Than Just) Light”, Internet Telephony, September 2001, http://www.tmcnet.com/it/0901/0901nnet.htm
Personal
Intelligent Systems Developer - 3-C ISD 3-C Institute For Social Development
Member ACM, IEEE
Hyrulian Expat
At the first session of our legislature after the Declaration of Independance,
we passed a law abolishing entails. And this was followed by one abolishing the
privilege of Primogeniture, and dividing the lands of intestates equally among
all their children, or other representatives. These laws, drawn by myself, laid
the axe to the root of Pseudoaristocracy. And had another which I prepared been
adopted by the legislature, our work would have been compleat. It was a Bill
for the more general diffusion of learning. This proposed to divide every county
into wards of 5. or 6. miles square, like your townships; to establish in each
ward a free school for reading, writing and common arithmetic; to provide for
the annual selection of the best subjects from these schools who might receive
at the public expense a higher degree of education at a district school; and
from these district schools to select a certain number of the most promising
subjects to be compleated at an University, where all the useful sciences should
be taught. Worth and genius would thus have been sought out from every condition
of life, and compleatly prepared by education for defeating the competition of
wealth and birth for public trusts.
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