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 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 has co-authored a book on software engineering for artificial intelligence applications (so long ago that he should really write a new one).

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Primary Technical Interests

• Robotics as a motivational context for teaching Computer Science - see IPRE, the Institute for Personal Robots in Education [summary]
• Robotics in research contexts in academia, particularly Human-Robot Interaction, modular robotics, and software engineering for robots
• 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

• IPRE Summer Workshops: here - note: this is not a Microsoft Research event
• IPRE 10k awards: here - note: this is not a Microsoft Research program
  
• Human-Robot Interaction RFP: original RFP here (closed); 8 project awards here
• SensorMap RFP: original RFP here (closed); 11 project awards here

Recent Publications

• 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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