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.
Primary Technical Interests
- Robotics in research contexts in academia, particularly (Social) Human-Robot Interaction, modular robotics, and software engineering for robots
- Robotics as a motivational context for teaching Computer Science - see IPRE, the Institute for Personal Robots in Education [summary]
- Microsoft Robotics Studio and technologies in research applications (see my pic in IEEE Spectrum, August 2007)
- Sensor Networks and network embedded systems technology and research applications
- .NET Micro Framework and other embedded systems platforms, including Windows Embedded
Hot Topics
- 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
- 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
Physical mail: address here
