Stewart Tansley, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Program Manager in External Research & Programs 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 & Programs 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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