{"51606":{"#nid":"51606","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Charles Isbell Receives NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDecember 6, 2006 -\u003C\/strong\u003E College of Computing Assistant Professor Charles Isbell recently received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the next five years, NSF will provide $500,000 in research funding to Isbell for his project titled \u0022Activity Discovery for Programmable \u0026amp; Adaptive Personalized Environments.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIsbell\u2019s research explores applications of statistical machine learning to human-computer and human-human interaction. It revolves around a vision for building adaptive and personalized environments that model humans and then uses those models to improve their own behavior. \u201cThe core technical nuggets,\u201d says Isbell, \u201care algorithms for activity discovery, as opposed to activity recognition, as well as the integration of such algorithms into an actual programming language.\u201d                                         \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAgents that can build their own representations of human behavior have great potential to impact entertainment, education and life management. The programming language developed in part under Isbell\u2019s grant will also provide a mechanism for programmers with little expertise in machine learning to develop such agents more easily, and may offer opportunities for new ways of teaching programming.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENSF CAREER Awards are one of the highest honors given to young university faculty in science and engineering. For more information about Charles Isbell, \u003Ca title=\u0022Charles Isbell, Jr.\u0022 href=\u0022resolveuid\/d594057cb1744bf9a457b03763722e98\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation provides $500,000 in research funding over the next five years.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:04","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}