Joshua A. Taylor

Contact & Personal Information

Email:: tayloj@cs.rpi.edu
Mobile:: (518) 429-9230
Office:: RAIR Lab
Room 1112, Russell Sage Laboratories
(518) 276-4849
Mail:: Carnegie 108
110 8^th Street
Troy, NY 12180
Info:: Curriculum Vitae

Research and Projects

I am currently a doctoral student in the Computer Science department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, working in the Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (RAIR) Laboratory. My research involves information exchange and interoperability between logical and knowledge representation systems with different semantics. My current and past projects include:

A Common Lisp RDF/XML parser.
Provability-Based Semantic Interoperability Between Knowledgebases and Databases via Translation Graphs, my MS thesis.
Slate A System for Logic and Theorem Extraction.
AKRRIV Advanced Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Interactive Visualzation.
Solomon An intelligent and rational question and answer system based on sophisticated human-machine interaction.

Social Networking

I have been introduced to LibraryThing and am slowly getting my library online.
Jennifer Golbeck gave a guest lecture at RPI and mentioned FOAF. I've posted a FOAF description of myself.

Teaching

Fall 2006 - CSCI 4150 Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant
Fall 2005 - Co-lecturer for PHIL 2140 Introduction to Logic. Students used Slate.
I taught Sunday School (grades 6-8) at the Korean Presbyterian Church of Albany, Jan. 2004 - Jan. 2005.
During my undergraduate years, I was a teaching assistant for several classes:
- PHIL-4963 Intermediate Logic (Spring 2005)
- CSCI-1190 Beginning C Programming for Engineers (Fall 2003)
- PHIL-2140 Introduction to Logic (Fall 2002, 2003, 2004)
- CSCI-2300 Data Structures and Algorithms (Spring 2002)

Past Projects

Free tree enumeration project for Graph Theory.
Turing Machine Productivity, with a twist.
Solomon, my ATP routine implementation.
Moral Development Paper (PDF), an analysis of Jesus' Teachings with Respect to Carol Gilligan's caring theme.