Don Miner

I completed my PhD in computer science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2010. My dissertation research involved Swarm Intelligence and Machine Learning and was advised by Dr. Marie desJardins. My other research interests include Artificial General Intelligence and Robotics. I currently spend my time at ClearEdge IT Solutions as a data scientist and at UMBC as a adjunct instructor in computer science. I am an aficionado of the Python Programming Language.

Contact

• MAPLE ITE339 (Phone: 410.455.8894)
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Teaching

• CMSC 345 - Software Design and Development (Fall 2010)
• CMSC 104 - Problem Solving and Computer Programming (Fall 2009)
• CMSC 391 - Problem Solving Seminar (Fall 2009)
• CMSC 477/677 - Agent Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems (Spring 2009)
• CMSC 471 - Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2008)

Projects and Research

Publications

• James MacGlashan, Don Miner, Marie desJardins. A Game Playing System for Use in Computer Science Education. FLAIRS 23, 2010.
• Don Miner, Marie desJardins. Predicting and Controlling System-Level Parameters of Multi-Agent Systems. AAAI Fall Symposium on Complex Adaptive Systems and the Threshold Effect, 2009.
• Don Miner, Marie desJardins. Learning Non-Explicit Control Parameters of Self-Organizing Systems. SASO 2009.
• Kevin Winner, Don Miner and Marie desJardins. Controlling Particle Swarm Optimization with Learned Parameters. SASO 2009.
• Rule Abstraction: Understanding Emergent Behavior in Swarm Systems. PhD Dissertation Proposal. February 18th, 2009.
• Don Miner, Marc Pickett, and Marie desJardins. Understanding the Brain's Emergent Properties. In Proceedings of The Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, 2009.
• Don Miner, Marie desJardins, and Peter Hamilton. The Swarm Application Framework. AAAI Student Abstract, 2008.
• Marc Pickett, Don Miner, and Tim Oates. Essential Phenomena of General Intelligence. In Proceedings of The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, 2008.
• Marc Pickett, Don Miner. Representation Change in The Marchitecture. In Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Representation Change, 2007.
• Marc Pickett, Don Miner, and Tim Oates. A Gauntlet for Evaluating Cognitive Architectures. In Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence, 2007.

Past Research, Class Projects and Other Stuff

• Dissertation document and source code (Github repo)
• The Swarm Application Framework (tad out of date)
• MAPLE Game Playing System
• 2009 [presentation] Introduction to Pyton (pdf)
• 2008 [class project] SwarmVis - A Swarm System Visualization Tool (pdf) ~ CMSC 636 - Data Visualization (google code repository)
• 2008 [tutorial] An Introduction to Python ~ Notes for a talk given to CMSC331 (Principles of Programming Languages)
• 2008 [class project] Volume Data Visualization ~ CMSC 636 - Data Visualization
• 2007 [class paper] "Swarm Robotics Algorithms: A Survey" (pdf) ~ CMSC 677 - Agent Architectures and Multi-agent Systems
• 2007 [class paper] "HIRM: An Algorithm for Developing Introspective Models of Robots" (pdf) ~ CMSC 601 - Research Methods for Computer Scientists
• 2007 [class project] SumoBot: Tetanus ~ CMSC 691R - Introduction to Robotics (Videos)
• 2007 [class project] Markov Localization Simulation (pdf) ~ CMSC691R - Introduction to Robotics (Video)
• 2006 [class project] BranDon: A distributed web service system ~ CMSC 621 - Advanced Operating Systems
• 2006 [research project] FCGlob: A new Syntax for SELinux File Contexts
• 2006 [class project] Using Genetic Algorithms and Markov Chains to Crack Simple Substitution Ciphers ~ CMSC 443 - Cryptography

Miscellaneous

AI Genealogy

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