Background
Stone, Peter was born on July 13, 1971 in Buffalo. Son of Russell and Son of Rala Stone.
Stone, Peter was born on July 13, 1971 in Buffalo. Son of Russell and Son of Rala Stone.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1998 and his Master of Surgery in 1995 from Carnegie Mellon University, both in Computer Science. He received his Bachelor of Surgery in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1993.
From 1999 to 2002 he was a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Artificial Intelligence Principles Department at American Telephone & Telegraph Company Labs - He then joined the faculty of Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor He was promoted to associate professor in 2007 and full professor in 2012. Stone was an adjunct professor at New York University in AY 2001-2002, and a visiting professor at Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University in AY 2008-2009.
Stone co-authored the papers that first proposed the robot soccer challenges around which Robocup was founded.
He is a vice president of the international RoboCup Federation and was a co-chair of RoboCup-2001 at IJCAI-01. Peter Stone was a Program Company-Chair of AAMAS 2006, was General Company-Chair of AAMAS 2011, and was a Program Company-Chair of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence-14.
Stone describes his research interest as understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents. His research focuses mainly on machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics.
Application domains have included robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, autonomic computing, and social agents.
Married Tamara Rosenberg, October 30, 1994. Children: Jasmine, Isaac, Raphael.