Henry Kautz

Biography Kautz was born in 1956 in Youngstown, Ohio.

Kautz was a professor of computer science at University of Washington (2000-2006) after worked at AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Laboratories. He then became a professor at the University of Rochester in 2007 and Founding Director of the Institute for Data Science after working as a director of Intelligent Systems at Kodak Research Laboratories (2006-2007). In 2024, he moved to the University of Virginia where he is a professor of computer science.

Selected works Kautz works on wide areas ranging from planning, knowledge representation and artificial Intelligence to data mining, human computation and crowdsourcing, ubiquitous computing, wearable computers, assistive technology and health.

Books 1991. Reasoning About Plans. (with James F. Allen, R. Pelavin, and J. Tenenberg) Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.

Articles 2013. 10-Year Impact Award ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 2013. Notable Paper First AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2012. Best Paper Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2005. Best Paper IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) 2004 & 2006. 1st Place ICAPS Planning Competition (Optimal Track) 1996 & 2004. Best Paper Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 1993 & 2012. Notable Paper Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 1989. Best Paper International Conference on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KRR) 1988. Best Paper Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI)

Patent 1993. Optimization of Information Bases. US patent issued November 1993 1997. Mechanism for Constraint Satisfaction. US patent issued June 1997 1997. Message Filtering Techniques. US patent issued April 1997

AI Limericks Henry Kautz created limericks on AI, which can be seen here (retrieved January 14 2015) .

Awards and honors 1989. IJCAI Computers and Thought Award. the premier award for artificial intelligence researchers under the age of 35. 1991. AAAI Fellow. "For contributions to many areas of artificial intelligence, from plan recognition to knowledge representation to software agents." 2006. AAAS Fellow. 2010-2012. President of AAAI. 2013. ACM Fellow. "For contributions to artificial intelligence and pervasive computing with applications to assistive technology and health." 2013. 10-Year Impact Award of ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. 2018. ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award.