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"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control." ~ I. J. Good (1965)
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Teaching:
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
[research project] The Swarm Application FrameworkPublications
The Swarm Application Framework
- 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.
- Publications currently under review are available at the SAF website.
- 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.
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] Visualization Critique (Presidential
election result maps) ~ CMSC 636 - Data Visualization2008 [class project]
Volume Data Visualization ~ CMSC 636 - Data
Visualization2007 [class paper] "Swarm Robotics Algorithms: A Survey" (pdf) ~ CMSC
677 - Agent Architectures and Multi-agent Systems2007 [class paper] "HIRM: An Algorithm for Developing
Introspective Models of Robots" (pdf) ~ CMSC 601 - Research Methods for
Computer Scientists2007 [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 Systems2006 [research project] FCGlob: A new Syntax for SELinux File
Contexts2006 [undergraduate thesis] Pairing Strings to Their Most
Specific Regular Expression Match ~ UMBC Computer Science Undergraduate
Honors Thesis.2006 [class project] Using Genetic Algorithms and Markov Chains
to Crack Simple Substitution Ciphers ~ CMSC 443 - CryptographyMiscellaneous:
Bradley's Halloween costume (youtube video)
"DON's FABULOUS GUIDE ON 1337NESS!"
Bathroom Box
Don vs. Tea Pinata
The Burning Whale
Cakes by Lucy
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