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Albert Goldfain, Ph.D.
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo 201 Bell Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 USA Office: Trailer E, Desk 8 Office Phone: 716-645-3771 Email: ag33@cse.buffalo.edu
PhD Track Student, Center for Cognitive Science Member, SNePS Research Group Member, VRAI Group Secretary, CSEGSA
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Welcome to my CSE homepage. I recently finished my doctorate on the topic of mathematical cognition. I worked under Dr. William Rapaport. My research interests are in artificial intelligence, specifically in the areas of knowledge representation and reasoning, cognitive semantics, and situated cognition. My doctoral research is in the area of computational mathematical cognition. I maintain a bibliography and author index for readings that I have found useful in my math cognition research.
For the Fall 2007 semester I am a lecturer (until Oct. 1) and TA for
CSE191.
My recitation sections for this semester are as follows:
| Wed. 11:00am - 11:50am | 4 Clemens |
| Thurs. 8:00am - 8:50am | 260 Capen |
| Wed. 11:00am - 12:00pm | Trailer E8 |
| Thurs. 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Trailer E8 |
Selected publications (preprints) and presentations:
Goldfain, Albert (2007), “A Case Study in Computational Math Cognition and Embodied Arithmetic”, Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI2007): 293-298.
Shapiro, Stuart C.; Rapaport, William J.; Kandefer, Michael W.; Johnson, Frances L.; and Goldfain, Albert (2007), “Metacognition in SNePS”, AI Magazine. 28(1): 17-31.
Goldfain, Albert; Kandefer, Michael W.; Anstey, Josephine, and Shapiro, Stuart C. (2006), “Co-Designing Agents”, Cognitive Robotics: Papers from the AAAI Workshop (CogRob2006): 77-82.
Goldfain, Albert (2006), “Embodied Enumeration: Appealing to Activities for Mathematical Explanation”, Cognitive Robotics: Papers from the AAAI Workshop (CogRob2006): 69-76.
Goldfain, Albert (2006), “A Computational Theory of Inference for Arithmetic Explanation”, Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-5): 145-150.
Some unpublished interdisciplinary papers:
On the Nature of the Instantiation Relation (PDF) aka- Albert pretending to be a philosopher :-)
Across Time: The Horizontality of Temporal Semantics (PDF) aka- Albert pretending to be a linguist :-)
Computationally Defining "Harbinger" via Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition (PDF)
The Free Safety Problem: Using Gaze Estimation as a Meaningful Input to a Homing Task (PPT) : Masters Project.
AI/CogSci Systems: SNePS, SOAR, ACT-R, CYC, WordNet, Protege, Swarm
Philosophy: Stanford Encyclopedia, Internet Encyclopedia
Fun: My Flickr page, My LibraryThing page, Slashdot, PhDComics
