Mark Adler

Background

I joined Nokia Research Center in October, 1999. Located at the Nokia Burlington (Boston) facility, I have worked primarily on projects involving artificial intelligence.

As of January of 2006, I will be part of the Nokia-MIT collaboration and I will relocate to Cambridge to work with MIT's Spoken Language Systems Group.

Research Interests

My research interests have always related to aspects of Artificial Intelligence including work on model-based reasoning, expert systems, inference engines, case-based reasoning, collaborative filtering, machine learning, and now spoken language systems.

Research Projects

My projects have all applied Artificial Intelligence techniques. For example:

• Applying text data mining techniques to help customers find solutions to their problems. This pilot used a TF/IDF techniques as well, as language processing tools such as part of speech tagging, synonym processing, and word stemming.
• Applying rule-based technology to analyze unix log files to diagnose and repair problems. Many problems are the result of incorrect settings in the user's profiles, but some were related to server problems.
• Developing agent technology for mobile phones. We developed a python-based blackboard system to monitor user behavior and use context information to inform the user of appropriate phone features.

Current Research

Simone - Interaction for Mobile Networked Ecosystems

Publications

chapters/books

• "Semantic Gadgets: Ubiquitous Computing Meets the Semantic Web" (with Ora Lassila) in Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential, Dieter Fensel, James Hendler, Henry Lieberman, and Wolfgang Wahlster, eds., MIT Press, 2003.

articles/papers

• "Intelligent Agent Technology" (with D. Prerau, D.K. Pathak, and A. Gunderson) in Handbook of Applied Expert Systems, J. Liebowitz, ed., CRC Press, 1997.
• "Learning Agents for Telecommunication" (with W.J. Frawley) in Worldwide Intelligent Systems, J. Liebowitz and D.S. Prerau, eds., IOS Press, 1995.
• "Systems with Experience and Expertise" (with D.S. Prerau and A.S. Gunderson) in Psychology of Expertise, R. Hoffman, ed., 1993.
• "Research and Development at Digital's Services Organization" (with Anil Rewari, et al.) in AI Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1992.
• "Software Engineering in the Development of a Large Expert System" (with D.S. Prerau, A.S. Gunderson, and R.E. Reinke), IEEE Expert, 1991.
• "Integrating Distributed Expertise" (with E. Simoudis) in Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Distributed AI, Austin, Texas: MCC, 1990.
• "Conflict Resolution Strategies for Non-Hierarchical Distributed Agents" (with A.B. Davis, R. Weihmayer, and R.W. Worrest), Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, Pitman, 1989.
• "Computer Interpretation of Peanuts Cartoons" in Proceedings of Fifth International Joint Conference on AI, 1977.

Patents

Patent Number 6,738,631

Vision-Guided Model-Based Point-and-Click Interface for a Wireless Handheld Device, May, 2004.

Patent Number 5,857,179

Computer Method and Apparatus for Clustering Documents and Automatic Generation of Cluster Key Words, January 1999.

Patent Number 5,428,619

Model Based Reasoning System for Network Fault Diagnosis, June 1995.

Personal Info

Work History

Before joining Nokia, I led the engineering group for SystemWizard, an expert system for diagnosing and repairing Windows 95/98 PC problems at SystemSoft in Natick, Massachusetts, a company now in Chapter 11. Before that, my jobs have been more research oriented, including DEC's AI Technology Center; GTE Labs' Knowledge Based group; Automatix, a small robotics company; and at BBN.

Education

I have a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science.

My undergraduate degrees are in both Mathematics and Computer Science from MIT.