Dana S. Nau

Dana S. Nau
Born	December, 1951 Illinois
Nationality	United States
Fields	Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Institutions	University of Maryland, College Park
Alma mater	Duke University - Ph.D., 1979 University of Missouri-Rolla - B.S., 1974
Known for	automated planning and scheduling, HTN planning, game tree pathology

Dana S. Nau is a Professor of Computer Science and Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he has done research in automated planning and scheduling, game theory, cognitive science, and computer-aided engineering. He has more than 300 publications^[1] and several best-paper awards. Some of his accomplishments include the discovery of game tree pathology,^[2] the development of the SHOP and SHOP2^[3] HTN planning systems, and the book Automated Planning: Theory and Practice (ISBN 1-55860-856-7).^[4] He is a Fellow^[5] of the AAAI.

Honors

• 1996 – Fellow, AAAI

References

1. ^ http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/publications.html
2. ^ Nau, Dana (1982). "An investigation of the causes of pathology in games". Artificial Intelligence 19 (3): 257–278. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(82)90002-9. 
3. ^ http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/shop/
4. ^ http://www.laas.fr/planning
5. ^ http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php

External links

• Dana Nau's home page

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Name	Nau, Dana S.
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Date of birth	1951
Place of birth	Illinois
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