Douglas P. Metzler Associate Professor Information Science and Telecommunications University of Pittsburgh Room 711 SIS metzler@sis.pitt.edu 412-624-9414

Education

Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, U.C. Davis
M.A. Cognitive Psychology, U.C. Davis
B.A. Psychology, San Francisco State University

Courses

Fall 2005

Human Information Processing (undergrad) IS1042
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning IS2906

Other

Human Information Processing (grad) IS2300
Natural Language Processing IS2420
Artificial Intelligence IS2440
Artifical Intelligence Programming Tools IS2450
Artificial Intelligence (undergrad) IS1054
Introduction to Information Science IS2000
Lisp and Symbolic Programming (undergrad) IS1012

Current Research

Knowledge-based Medical Systems
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Explanation of Reasoning in Rule and Object-Based Systems
Datamining using Background Knowledge

General Research Interests

Knowledge Representation in People and Machines
Natural Language and Communication
Tutoring Systems
Human and Machine Learning
Problem Solving and Reasoning