Thomas L. Dean
Thomas L. Dean earned his Yale computer science doctorate in 1986. He was a Brown professor of computing and cognitive and linguistic sciences from 1993 to 2007. Dean coauthored Planning and Control with Michael Wellman. The book combines techniques from AI, operations research, control theory and decision science, reflecting his research in planning, probabilistic inference and robotics. Dean chaired Brown’s computer science department from 1997 to 2002 and served as deputy provost from 2003 to 2005. He also wrote books with James Allen and John Aloimonos and served as IJCAI 1999 program chair.
- Now at
- Brown University
- Works
- 139
- Citations
- 8,043
- h-index
- 36
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Timeline
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1986–1993
Doctorate and academic work
Thomas L. Dean earned his Yale computer science doctorate in 1986. He was a Brown professor of computing and cognitive and linguistic sciences from 1993 to 2007.
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Research and books
Planning and control
Dean coauthored Planning and Control with Michael Wellman. The book combines techniques from AI, operations research, control theory and decision science, reflecting his research in planning, probabilistic inference and robotics.
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1997–2005
University leadership
Dean chaired Brown’s computer science department from 1997 to 2002 and served as deputy provost from 2003 to 2005. He also wrote books with James Allen and John Aloimonos and served as IJCAI 1999 program chair.
Sources and credits
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