Contact
Email:. Email is best
Phone: (212) 998-3123. Fax: (212) 995-4121
Address: Dept. of Computer Science, New York University, Room 329, 251 Mercer St., New York NY 10012 USA
Office hours: Tue 10-12, Wed 3-4
Teaching
Current Course Web Pages: Data Structures Artificial Intelligence
Previous Course Web Pages
Current Research Students:
Paul Bethe, Ph.D. student. Automated bidding for computer bridge.
Noah Frazier-Logue Computer science major. Symbolic reasoning about containers.
Academic Family Tree (Teachers and Students)
Computer Science Education At NYU
Research
In my research, I study the problem of representing commonsense knowledge: that is, the problem of taking the basic knowledge about the real world that is common to all humans; expressing it in a form that is systematic enough to be used by a computer program; and providing the program with techniques for effectively using that knowledge. My work has focused primarily on spatial and physical reasoning, but I have also looked at reasoning about knowledge, belief, plans, and goals, and their interaction with physical reasoning.Current research projects
- Reasoning about Containers
- Ontology of Matter and other Physical Reasoning
- Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
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Commonsense Reasoning and Text Comprehension
- Commonsense Reasoning and Probability Theory
If you are interested in commonsense reasoning, you should check out the recent symposium Commonsense 2015. You might also like to look at the Common Sense Problem Page, the Winograd Schema Challenge, and the CACM 2015 article surveying the state of the art by Gary Marcus and me.
Publications
Books
Complete List of Research Papers
Research Papers with Abstracts
Surveys and Essays
Book Reviews
Presentations
Curriculum Vitae
Non-technical Writing
In the last few years, I have started regularly writing book reviews and opinion pieces, on topics ranging across computer science, mathematics, cognitive psychology, history of science, scientific biography, digital humanities, invented languages, and children's literature. These have been published in SIAM News, Computing Reviews, American Scientist, Mythprint, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Financial Times, and the online New Yorker.Personal
Picture
Recreational Writing
Personal Profile. (Computing Reviews, June 20, 2013)
Collection of Quotations
Letters to the Editor
My grandfather, Louis Finkelstein
Bibliography of Philip J. Davis
Wikimedia Edits: Wikipedia. Wikiquotes. Wikisource.
NYU 2031 Plan and other NYU Scandals