Adele E. Howe
Also known as Adele Howe
Adele E. Howe was an AI researcher at Colorado State University whose work covered automated planning, search and autonomous agents. Her doctoral research examined failure recovery in planners. After joining Colorado State in 1992, she worked on scheduling, human-centered computing and optimization, including shared satellite scheduling and web-search projects. AAAI elected her a Fellow in 2015, and she received the first ICAPS Distinguished Service Award in 2016. Howe died in 2017.
- Works
- 144
- Citations
- 3,410
- h-index
- 34
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1983–early 1990s
Learning to study autonomous systems
Howe earned an engineering degree at Penn in 1983 and later studied computer and information science at Massachusetts. Her doctoral dissertation examined how planners recover from failure. This work addressed what an autonomous system should do when its initial plan encounters a problem.
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1992
Research at Colorado State
Howe joined Colorado State University in 1992. She investigated autonomous agents, planning, human-centered computing and combinatorial optimization. Howe worked on satellite communication scheduling and a web meta-crawler with other researchers.
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2015–2016
Research and community service
AAAI elected Howe a Fellow in 2015. The citation recognizes planning, scheduling, evaluation and service to AI. She also received the first ICAPS Distinguished Service Award in 2016. Her professional work included conference organization and mentoring.
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2017
Research and mentoring
Colorado State announced Howe’s death in January 2017. Howe emphasized evaluating why algorithms perform as they do, with applications ranging from satellite scheduling to security for home computer users.
Sources and credits
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