Martha E. Pollack
Martha E. Pollack earned her Pennsylvania doctorate in 1986, with a dissertation on natural-language processing. Her subsequent research covered automated planning, temporal reasoning and constraint satisfaction. Pollack began her Michigan faculty career in 2000, following work at Pittsburgh and SRI’s AI Center. Her research focused on intelligent technology for people with cognitive impairment. Pollack’s Planning Technology for Intelligent Cognitive Orthotics describes Autominder, a system developed at Michigan. It models daily plans, reasons about their execution and uses planning and plan-management methods to make flexible decisions about reminders.
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Timeline
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1986
Language and reasoning doctorate
Martha E. Pollack earned her Pennsylvania doctorate in 1986, with a dissertation on natural-language processing. She later researched automated planning, temporal reasoning and constraint satisfaction.
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2000
Michigan research career
Pollack began her Michigan faculty career in 2000, following work at Pittsburgh and SRI’s AI Center. Her particular research focus was intelligent technology for people with cognitive impairment.
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2002
Autominder
Pollack’s Planning Technology for Intelligent Cognitive Orthotics describes Autominder, a system developed at Michigan. It models daily plans, reasons about their execution and uses planning and plan-management methods to make flexible decisions about reminders.
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