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    Stewart Tansley, PhD, is a Senior Research Program Manager in External Research at Microsoft Research, Redmond WA, USA.

    Bio

    Stewart is responsible for academic partnerships in Device-Oriented Computing (DOC) -- which includes such areas as Robotics research and Sensor Networks research -- as part of External Research in 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, several patents, and co-authored a book on software engineering for artificial intelligence applications. In 2009 he co-edited The Fourth Paradigm, a book collating visionary essays on the emerging field of data-intensive science.

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    Primary Technical Interests


    Hot Topics
    Fourth Paradigm

    • The Fourth Paradigm - Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery: new FREE textbook! here
    • Social Human-Robot Interaction Toolkit: introduction here; position paper (coming soon)
    • Human-Robot Interaction RFP: original RFP here (closed); 8 project awards here
    • SensorMap RFP: original RFP here (closed); 11 project awards here


    Recent Publications & Presentations

    IPRE

    • New Book
      The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
      T. Hey, S. Tansley, K. Tolle, (Editors), 2009, Microsoft Research
      Home Page  (October 16, 2009 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |  Downloads (6 or 95 MB)
    • IJCAI 2009
      HRI & Robotics Research Competitions
      Tansley, Stewart
      Workshop  (July 13, 2009 in Pasadena, California) |  Slides (1.5 MB)
    • RoboCup 2009
      RoboCup & Industry: A Microsoft Research Perspective
      Tansley, Stewart
      Symposium  (July 1, 2009 in Graz, Austria) |  Slides (1.5 MB)
    • IEEE Pervasive Computing, v7n2 Apr-Jun 2008
      Designing Personal Robots for Education: Hardware, Software, and Curriculum
      Balch, Tucker; Summet, Jay; Blank, Doug; Kumar, Deepak; Guzdial, Mark; O'Hara, Keith; Walker, Daniel; Sweat, Monica; Gupta, Gaurav; Tansley, Stewart; Jackson, Jared; Gupta, Mansi; Muhammad, Marwa Nur; Prashad, Shikha; Eilbert, Natasha; Gavin, Ashley
      Abstract  | Full Text: PDF (598 KB) [IEEE login required]

     


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    Email: stansley {at} microsoft {dot} com

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