My CV

Research with Students

I am happy to work with students in fields in which I have expertise or in which I can be helpful in one way or other, i.e. noone else has expertise in that field and I am somewhat interested in learning more about it. Feel free to get in touch with me about a research idea you have. If I feel a colleage is better suited to work with you, I will recommend that you get in touch with them.

I have expertise in general AI and AI education. I furthermore have expertise in valid reasoning and inference, as well as the software side of the Internet of Things (IoT). In the past, I have taught a course on Swarm Intelligence and as such, I have some limited expertise in that field. Similarly, I have taught a course on NLP and have some limited expertise in that field.

Senior Theses

Some of my academic work

• To appear: Michael Wollowski. (2021) Engagement During Pandemic Teaching - Report of the EAAI-21 Panel on Teaching Online and Blended AI Courses. AI Magazine.

• To appear: Michael Wollowski, Lilin Chen '21, Xiangnan Chen '21, Yifan Cui 21', Joseph Knierman '20, Xusheng Liu '21. (2021). Engineering Context from the Ground Up. In: Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Eds.: William F. Lawless, Ranjeev Mittu and Donald A. Sofge. Springer.

• Michael Wollowski, Tyler Bath '20, Sophie Brusniak '20, Michael Crowell '19, Devon Dong '19, Joseph Knierman '20, Walt Panfil '19, Sooyoung Park '20, Mitchell Schmidt '20, Adit Suvarna '19. (2020). Shared Context in Human Robot Collaborative Problem Solving with Multi-modal Input. In: Human-Machine Shared Contexts. Editors: W.F. Lawless, Ranjeev Mittu and Donald A. Sofge. Academic Press.

• Michael Wollowski, Michael Crowell '19, Devon Dong '19, Walt Panfil '19, Adit Suvarna '19. (2019). Shared Context in Human Robot Collaborative Problem Solving with Multi-modal Input. In: Technical Report of the 2019 AAAI Spring Symposium on ”Artificial Intelligence (AI), Autonomous Machines and Human Awareness: User Intervention, Intuition and Mutually Constructed Context.“

• Oscar Youngquist '20, Michael Wollowski. (2019). A Pseudo‐Ensemble Neural Network for the Emotional Classification of Text. Poster. 2019 National Council for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) Student Research Conference.

• Michael Wollowski, Oscar Youngquist '20. (2019). Abstract: A Gentle Introduction to the Backpropagation Algorithm and Feedforward Networks. Abstract in: Proceedings of EAAI-19 Symposium. AAAI Press. Assignment in: http://modelai.gettysburg.edu/

• Michael Wollowski, John McDonald. (2019). The Web of Smart Entities - Aspects of a Theory of the Next Generation of the Internet of Things. In: Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of Everything. Editors: William Lawless, Ranjeev Mittu, Donald Sofge, Ira S. Moskowitz and Stephen Russell. Academic Press.

• Michael Wollowski, John McDonald, Vishal Kapashi, Ben Chodroff. (2018). The Web of Smart Entities - Towards a Theory of the Next Generation of the Internet of Things. In: Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Spring Symposium. AAAI Press.

• Eric Eaton, Michael Wollowski. (2018). EAAI-18 Preface. In: Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Conference. AAAI Press.

• Michael Wollowski, Carlotta Berry, Ryder Winck, Alan Jern, David Voltmer, Alan Chiu, Yosi Shibberu. (2017). A Data-driven Approach Towards Human-robot Collaborative Problem Solving in a Shared Space. Presented at 2017 AAAI Fall Symposium on Natural Communication for Human-Robot Collaboration. In: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00274

• Doug Fisher, Charles Isbell, Michael L. Littman, Michael Wollowski, Todd W. Neller, Jim Boerkoel. (2017). Ask Me Anything about MOOCs. In: AI Magazine, Summer 2017, Vol 38, No 2. Publisher: AAAI Press.

• Michael Wollowski, Todd Neller, James Boerkoel. Artificial Intelligence Education: Editorial Introduction. In: AI Magazine, Summer 2017, Vol 38, No 2. Publisher: AAAI Press

• Lawrence S. Moss, Michael Wollowski. Natural Logic in AI and Cognitive Science. In: Proceedings of the 28th Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference. April 2017.

• Michael Wollowski. Studying Watson Inside Out - A Cognitive Systems Course. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Flairs Conference. Publisher: AAAI Press. May 2016.

• Michael Wollowski. Training Watson - a cognitive systems course In: Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Publisher: AAAI Press. February 2016.

• Michael Wollowski, Robert Selkowitz, Laura E. Brown, Ashok Goel, George Luger, Jim Marshall, Andrew Neel, Todd Neller, Peter Norvig. A survey of current practice and teaching of AI. In: Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Publisher: AAAI Press. February 2016.

• Michael Wollowski. Teaching with Watson. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Publisher: AAAI Press. July 2014.

• Peter Brusilovsky, Stephen Edwards, Amruth Kumar, Lauri Malmi, Luciana Benotti, Duane Buck, Petri Ihantola, Rikki Prince, Teemu Sirki, Sergey Sosnovsky, Jaime Urquiza, Arto Vihavainen, Michael Wollowski. Increasing Adoption of Smart Learning Content for Computer Science Education. In: Proceedings of the Working Group Reports of the 2014 Innovation & Technology in Computer Science Education Conference.(2014), pp. 31-57.

• Renee D. Rogge, Glen A. Livesay, Jameel Ahmed, William A. Kline, Robert M. Bunch, Zac Chambers, Michael Wollowski. The Innovation Canvas as a Teaching Tool in Capstone Design: A Reverse-Engineering Case Study. In: Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Publisher: ASEE

• Jameel Ahmed, Renee D. Rogge, William A. Kline, Robert M. Bunch, Thomas W. Mason, Michael Wollowski, Glen A. Livesay. The Innovation Canvas: An Instructor's Guide. In: Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Publisher: ASEE

• [September 2011] The following paper entitled Knowledge Servers for the Classroom which I co-wrote with one of our students, Kevin Risden, was published in the Proceedings of the 2011 Frontiers in Education conference. Here is the presentation Kevin gave.

• [May 2010] The following paper entitled Effects of Game Tournaments on Learning and Classroom Climate which I co-wrote with one of our students, J.P. Verkamp was published in the Proceedings of the 2010 Florida AI Research Symposium. Daytona Beach, FL. 2010. Here is the presentation we gave.

• [January 2009] The following paper entitled Evolution of an International Collaborative Student Project was presentated at the ACE 2009 conference in Wellington, New Zealand and published in the conference proceedings. I am one of four authors. The paper received a "Best Paper" award.

• [May 2008] The following paper entitled From Foundations to Current Work in a One Quarter Course on Artificial Intelligence was published in the Proceedings of the 21st International FLAIRS Conference which took place in Coconut Grove, FL. Here is the presentation I gave.

• [April 2006] The following paper entitled A Theorem Prover for a Diagrammatic Blocks World was published in the Proceedings of the 2006 Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference which took place at Valparaiso University. Here is the presentation I gave.

• [August 2005] The following paper entitled Search and Inference with Diagrams was published in the Proceedings of the The Ninth IASTED International Conference on INTERNET & MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS which took place in Honolulu, HI. Here is the presentation I gave.

• [October 2004] The following paper entitled Living in a Transparent Future: Search in a Wired World was published in the Proceedings of the WWW@10 conference which took place in Terre Haute, IN. Here is the presentation I gave.

• [September 2004] Robert Signorelli ('02), Chris Barell ('03), and I published our Zero-Click shopping invention. Here is the full abstract. Contact me, if you want to know more.

• [May 2004] Peter Nei ('03), Chris Barell ('03), and I had the following paper A Diagrammatic Inference System for the Web published in the Alternate Track Papers and Posters Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, which was held in NYC. We did this work while Peter and Chris were students at Rose-Hulman. I presented the following poster at the conference.

• [April 2003] Robert Signorelli ('02), a student working on a senior thesis with me, and myself gave the following presentation Towards a General-Purpose Search Engine at the prestigious 2003 Search Engine Meeting in Boston, MA.

• [February 2003] A paper of mine, entitled: An XML-Based Syllabus Editor and Search Engine that is published in the Proceedings of the Stop Surfing - Start Teaching 2003 National Conference to be held in Las Vegas, NV. The powerpoint presentation that I gave at the conference.

• [November 2002] A short work-in-progress report presented at the FIE 2002 conference in Boston. This is work in which I participated as part of an NSF grant for preparing a case study for teaching inclusive design in an undergraduate engineering school. The powerpoint presentation that goes with the paper on inclusive design was prepared and presented by Madeleine Rothberg with some assistance from the rest of us. Among others, it contains information on how one would use the case study in mechanical engineering or in computer science.

• [October 2002] ELearn 2002 paper on XML Based Course Websites. The ELearn 2002 powerpoint presentation that I gave at the conference. The XML course description search engine that is mentioned in the paper. You need >IE5.5 in order to view the XML documents as we use XSL stylesheets to render them. The XML course description editor that was mentioned in the paper. Our course descriptions begin with CSSE. You need >IE5.5 in order to view the XML documents as we use XSL stylesheets to render them.

• [October 2001] FIE 2001 paper entitled An Undergraduate Research Course Aimed at Furthering the Web. The FIE 2001 powerpoint presentation that I gave at the conference.