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INDEX:
HONORS:
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Rapaport, William J.
(2024),
"Is Artificial General Intelligence Impossible?"
Cosmos+Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and
Organization
12(5+6): 5–22.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
IN THE MEDIA:
ON THE WEB:
EDUCATION:
Dissertation:
Intentionality and the Structure of Existence
(Director:
Hector-Neri Castañeda)
Thesis:
Belief Representation and Quasi-Indicators
(Director: Stuart C. Shapiro)
EXPERIENCE:
CSE Eminent Professor Emeritus (2017–present)
Associate Professor Emeritus (2012–2017)
Associate Professor (1998–2012)
Affiliated Faculty (Emeritus) (2006‐present)
Affiliated Faculty (Emeritus) (2006‐present)
Adjunct Professor (1994‐2006)
Associate Professor (1988–1998);
Assistant Professor (1986–1988);
Visiting Assistant Professor (1984–1986)
Associate Professor (1983–1984);
Assistant Professor (1976–1983; on leave, 1982–1983)
Associate Instructor (1975)
Research Assistant (9/72–8/75);
Associate Instructor (1971–1972)
Director of high-school mathematics program (1969–1971)
7th-Grade Mathematics Teacher (1968–1969)
("For the positive influence you have had on students at the
University at Buffalo as described in the Year After survey of 2003
graduates.")
Cognitive Science,
Artificial Intelligence,
Computational Linguistics,
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning,
Logic,
Philosophy of Mind,
Philosophy of Language,
Critical Thinking,
Cognitive Development
Reading Education
PUBLICATIONS:
.
(See also
"Conference Presentations
with No Published Proceedings", below. (These
are the norm in philosophy and reading education,
my other academic disciplines.)
PRESENTATIONS:
(Conferences with no published proceedings are the norm
in philosophy and reading education.)
"Acquiring a Sense of a Word's Meaning from
Verbal Context:
Processes, Outcomes, and Curricular Directions",
with
Karen M. Wieland,
Michael W. Kibby,
&
Tanya M. Christ
(presenters),
National Reading Conference
(Orlando, FL).
"Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition:
Cognitive Processes and Instructional Methods",
with Michael W. Kibby (presenter),
&
Karen M. Wieland,
International Reading Association
21st World Congress on Reading (Budapest).
"Helping Students Apply Reasoning to Gaining Word
Meanings from Context:
Application of Artificial Intelligence and Verbal Protocol
Data to Curriculum Design", co-presented
with Michael W. Kibby,
49th Annual Convention of the
International Reading Association
(Reno, NV).
"Deictic Centers
and the Cognitive Structure of Narrative Comprehension",
co-presented with
Erwin M. Segal,
First International Colloquium
on Deixis (University of Kentucky).
"Unsolvable Problems and Philosophical Progress",
Creighton Club/New York State Philosophical
Association
(University of Rochester).
"Meinong, Defective Objects, and Psychological Paradoxes",
Tri-State Philosophical Association
(Pennsylvania State University/Behrend College).
"An Algebraic Interpretation of Deontic Logic",
Association for Symbolic Logic
(University of Wisconsin).
"The Algebraic Structure of Ethical Language",
Mathematical Association of America,
Seaway Section
(Brock University, St. Catherine's, Ontario).
"The Logical Structure of Ethical Language",
Niagara Linguistics Society (SUNY Buffalo).
"How to Make the World Fit Our Language"
Tri-State Philosophical Association (1978).
"Adverbial Theories and Meinongian Theories":
and
"Knowledge Representation for Natural-Language Understanding",
11th Steelman Visiting Scientist
Distinguished Lectureship
Lenoir-Rhyne College
(1988).
(all at SUNY Buffalo, except as noted)
and
"Cognitive Science",
Faculty and Students Together (1988).
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
At SUNY Buffalo: Externally Funded: 2001–2003:
NSF
Research on
Learning and Education (ROLE) Program:
Contextual
Vocabulary Acquisition:
Development of a Computational Theory and Educational
Curriculum
(PI)$200,000 1987–1989:
NSF
Knowledge and Database Systems Program
(Computer and Information Science):
Cognitive and Computer Systems for Understanding Narrative Text
(Co-PI)$369,769 1987:
NSF
Knowledge and Database Systems Program:
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(supplement to Logical Foundations for Belief Representation)
(PI)$5,984 1986:
NSF
Information Science and Technology Program:
Research Opportunity Award
(supplement to Logical Foundations for Belief Representation)
(PI)
$12,000 1985–1987:
NSF Information Science and Technology Program:
Logical Foundations for Belief Representation
(PI)
$104,979 1985–1986:
NSF Computer Science Research Equipment
(Co-PI on departmental grant)$150,000 Internally Funded: 1990:
SUNY Buffalo
Center for Cognitive Science:
Flexible Natural Language Processing:
Representations for Natural Category Systems
(PI)$2,000 1990:
SUNY Buffalo
Conferences in the Disciplines:
Center for Cognitive Science Workshop:
Where Does I Come From?
Subjectivity and the Debate over Computational Cognitive Science
(PI)$2,000 1988:
SUNY Buffalo
Conferences in the Disciplines:
26th Annual Meeting,
Association for Computational Linguistics
(PI)$1,000 1986–1987:
SUNY Research Development Fund Award:
A Computational Theory of Natural-Language Understanding
(PI)$1,200 1984–1985:
SUNY Research Development Fund Award:
Logical Foundations for Belief Representation$5,009 At SUNY Fredonia: Externally Funded:
1982:
US Department of Education
FIPSE
"Creating Connections" grant
(co-PI; unable to accept)$400 1981:
NEH Pilot Grant:
Humanistic Component of General-Liberal Education
(Co-PI)$44,189 1980:
NEH
Residential Fellowship for College Teachers
(unable to accept)$19,000 1979:
NEH
Summer Stipend:
New Foundations for Natural Language Semantics
(PI)$2,500 Internally Funded:
1981:
SUNY Faculty Research Fellowship:
Logical and Psychological Paradoxes
(PI)$2,150 1980:
SUNY Grant-in-Aid:
Meinongian Theories of Language and Mind (PI)$437 1978:
SUNY Faculty Research Fellowship:
The Structure of Ethical Language
(PI)$2,000 1977:
SUNY Faculty Research Fellowship:
Meinongian Theories and Russellian Paradoxes
(PI)$1,850 TEACHING:
(Department of Computer Science (& Engineering),
SUNY Buffalo):
(Department of Computer Science,
SUNY Buffalo):
(SUNY Buffalo):
(with links to most recent version;
"" symbol
indicates website that is still being regularly updated):
(in chronological order):
Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study,
Algebra, Geometry, Analytic Geometry, Trigonometry
regular, advanced, and non-English-speaking 7th-grade mathematics
SERVICE:
(1984–present)
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
(1983–present)
American Philosophical Association (1971–present)
Association for Computational Linguistics
(1984–present)
Association for Computing Machinery (1983–present)
Cognitive Science Society (1983–present)
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