Douglas Smith is Fall 2003 Distinguished Lecturer

Douglas Smith of the Kestrel Institute spoke about high-performance planners and schedulers on Oct. 20 as the first ISR Distinguished Lecturer of the 2003 fall semester.

Dr. Douglas Smith has been with the Kestrel Institute since August 1984. He has taught a graduate course on “Software Development by Refinement” at Stanford University since 1986. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Duke University in 1979. Prior to joining Kestrel he held academic positions at the Naval Postgraduate School and managed the basic research program in Artificial Intelligence at the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Va. Dr. Smith is a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He was Chairman of IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi from 1993 through 1999.

Dr. Smith’s main research interest has been formalizing and mechanizing software development. Related interests include algorithm design, automated deduction, program optimization, data structure design, computational complexity, models of software systems and their design and evolution, and inductive inference. He is principally responsible for the development of KIDS (Kestrel Interactive Development System), a state-of-the-art formal software development environment. KIDS has been used to develop algorithms for problems from a wide range of application domains including scheduling, mathematical programming, combinatorial design, sorting and searching, pattern matching, computational geometry, VLSI routing, and air traffic control.

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Published November 6, 2003