About the editors
Ashwin Ram is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing of the
Georgia Institute of Technology, an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science,
and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology. He received his B.Tech.
in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New
Delhi, in 1982, and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. He received his Ph.D. degree from
Yale University for his dissertation on "Question-Driven Understanding:
An Integrated Theory of Story Understanding, Memory, and Learning" in 1989.
Dr. Ram's research interests lie in the areas of artificial intelligence
and cognitive science, with an emphasis on machine learning, case-based
reasoning, natural language understanding, and cognitive multimedia, and
he has several research publications in these areas. He is a co-editor
of a book on Goal-Driven Learning, published by MIT Press/Bradford
Books. Dr. Ram is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of the
Learning Sciences and the International Journal of Applied Intelligence,
and an Associate of Brain and Behavioral Sciences. He is a member of the
technical advisory board of the EduTech Institute. He co-chaired the 1994
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, the 1994 AAAI Spring
Symposium on Goal-Driven Learning, the 1995 AAAI Fall Symposium on Adaptation
of Knowledge for Reuse, and the 1996 FLAIRS Special Track on Real-World
Natural Language Understanding. His current address is: College of
Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280.
(a s h w i n @ c c . g a t e c h . e d u, http://www.cc.gatech.edu/faculty/ashwin/).
Kenneth Moorman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at
Transylvania University. He received his B.A. in Computer Science and
Mathematics from Transylvania University in 1991, his M.Sc. in Computer
Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996, and his Ph.D. in
Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997 for his
dissertation on creative reading. While at Georgia Tech, Dr. Moorman was a
Hertz Fellow from 1991 to 1996. His current research interests include
natural language processing, real-world reading, creativity, learning,
memory, and robotics. He is a member of AAAI, the Cognitive Science Society,
the International Reading Association, and the ACM. Dr. Moorman co-chaired
the 1996 FLAIRS Special Track on Real-World Natural Language Understanding.
His current address is: Transylvania University, 300 North
Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508.
(kmoorman@mail.transy.edu, http://www.transy.edu/homepages/kmoorman/).