Roy M. Turner
Department of Computer Science
5752 Neville Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5752
Phone: 207-581-3909
E-mail: rmt@umcs.maine.edu


Dr. Turner is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maine. He is an affiliated faculty member of The Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire, and a member of the UMaine Agent Institute. From 1989-1995, he was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Hampshire. During 1995, he was also a visiting senior research scientist at the Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory of Northeastern University. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 (thesis area: artificial intelligence).

Dr. Turner's research interests and publication areas include: adaptive planning and context-sensitive reasoning; intelligent control of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); distributed artificial intelligence, in particular cooperative distributed problem solving (CDPS); AI in biology; cognitive science; and diagnostic reasoning.

He is a co-founder and co-director of the Maine Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Research Group, the director of the Orca project (NSF grant BCS-9211914), and co-director of the MAUV/CoDA project (ONR grants N0001-14-96-1-5009 and N0001-14-98-1-0648). He maintains the Context in AI Web site for the context research community.

Dr. Turner is the author of over 40 publications, including a book on adaptive reasoning (Adaptive Reasoning for Real-World Problems: A Schema-Based Approach, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994). He is a member of AAAI, IEEE, ACM, the Cognitive Science Society, and Computists International.


Department of Computer Science
5752 Neville Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5752
Phone: (207)581-3909
Fax: (207)581-4977
E-mail: rmt@umcs.maine.edu
Home page: http://cdps.umcs.maine.edu/~rmt
Last modified: Tue May 8 10:25:01 EDT 2001