Stewart Tansley, PhD, is a Director in Microsoft Research Connections, Redmond WA, USA.
Bio
Stewart Tansley is a Director at
Microsoft Research Connections. He is responsible for
Microsoft's academic research partnerships related to
Natural User Interface (NUI), especially
device-oriented, including Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Robotics
and
Sensor Networks. In 2011 he was acting product manager for the
Kinect
for Windows SDK from Microsoft Research. Before joining Microsoft in 2001, he spent 13 years in the
telecommunications industry in software research and development, focusing on
technology transfer. Stewart has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence applied to
Engineering from Loughborough University,
UK. He has published a variety of papers on robotics for education, artificial
intelligence, and network management as well as several patents, and co-authored
a book on software engineering for artificial intelligence applications. In
2009, he co-edited
The Fourth Paradigm,
a book that collates visionary essays on the emerging field of data-intensive
science. His recent research interests have centered on multi-device NUI, social
human-robot interaction, robotics as a context for computer science education,
sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing.
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