William R. Swartout
- Director of Technology, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
- Research Professor of Computer Science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Expertise Summary
Expert in artificial intelligence systems, including immersive virtual reality, intelligent agents and natural language generation
Expertise
- artificial intelligence
- virtual reality and virtual humans
- human-computer interaction
- immersive environments
- modeling and simulation
- serious games, and video games for training
- computer-aided training and education
- natural language processing
- autonomous agents
- knowledge-based systems
- science, technology, engineering and mathematics
Additional Information
- Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- Recipient, Robert Engelmore Award from Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, for seminal contributions to knowledge-based systems and explanation, groundbreaking research on virtual human technologies and their applications, and outstanding service to the artificial intelligence community
- Past member: Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Board on Army Science and Technology of the National Academies