AI Unbound

Bart Selman is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He previously was at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Professor Selman’s research interests include computational sustainability, efficient reasoning procedures, planning, knowledge representation, and connections between computer science and statistical physics. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications, including six best paper awards. His papers have appeared in venues spanning Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and a variety of conferences and journals in AI and computer science. 

Professor Selman has received the Cornell Stephen Miles Excellence in Teaching Award, the Cornell Outstanding Educator Award, an NSF Career Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Jesse Goldberg received his B.S. from Haverford College and his M.D./Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. His Ph.D. with Rafa Yuste focused on dendritic computation and microcircuits of the cerebral cortex. In medical school, Dr. Goldberg became interested in disorders such as Parkinson’s and dystonia that impair basal ganglia-dependent reinforcement learning (RL). His postdoctoral work at MIT focused on how the basal ganglia implement RL in juvenile songbirds. 

Dr. Goldberg has been supported by the Pew, Klingenstein, and Kavli Foundations, as well as the NIH New Innovator and Cornell Neurotech programs. His guiding philosophy is that comparative approaches (across species and across the animal-machine divide) are necessary to distinguish general principles from behavior-, effector-, machine-, and species-specific solutions to motor learning problems.

Sarah E. Kreps is the John L. Wetherill Professor in the Cornell University Department of Government, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Director of the Cornell Tech Policy Lab. She has written five books that explore the intersection of international politics, technology, and national security, including “Drone Warfare” (2014) and “Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know” (2016). Professor Kreps is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard University, West Point, and the University of Virginia. She has a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a Master of Science degree from Oxford University, and a Doctorate from Georgetown. Between 1999 and 2003, Professor Kreps served as an active-duty U.S. Air Force officer.