Don Miner

I am a computer science PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a member of the MAPLE lab. I have been working on a Swarm Intelligence and Machine Learning project, The Swarm Application Framework, under the advisement of Dr. Marie desJardins. My other research interests include Artificial General Intelligence and Robotics. I am an aficionado of the Python Programming Language.

Contact

• MAPLE ITE339 (Phone: 410.455.8894)
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Teaching

• 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

Current Projects

• The Swarm Application Framework (tad out of date)

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

• 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

Bradley's Halloween costume (youtube video)

"DON's FABULOUS GUIDE ON 1337NESS!"

Bathroom Box

Cakes by Lucy

Lucy's flickr stream

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