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computer scientist

Michael Lederman Littman is a computer scientist

Education

Brown University.

Career

He works mainly in reinforcement learning, but has done work in machine learning, game theory, computer networking, partially observable Markov decision process solving, computer solving of analogy problems and other areas. He is currently a professor of computer science at Brown University. Before graduate school, Littman worked with Thomas Landauer at Bellcore and was granted a patent for one of the earliest systems for Cross-language information retrieval.

Littman received his Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from Brown University in 1996.

From 1996 to 1999, he was a professor at Duke University. From 2000 to 2002, he worked at American Telephone & Telegraph Company. From 2002 to 2012, he was a professor at Rutgers University.

He chaired the department from 2009-2012. In Summer 2012 he returned to Brown University as a full professor

He also appeared in a TurboTax commercial.

Achievements

  • During his time at Duke, he worked on an automated crossword solver PROVERB, which won an Outstanding Paper Award in 1999 from Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and competed in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.