ShapeShiftedTV Tutorial
Short autobiography Dr. Marian Ursu is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London. He holds a PhD in AI (Symbolic Knowledge Representations for Intelligent Design) from Brunel University, UK, and an “Inginer” degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He worked as a Visiting Researcher at a number of institutions including BT AI Lab, MIT Media Lab, and Southampton University. His current research is focused on applications of artificial intelligence techniques, in particular symbolic knowledge representations and reasoning, to new media. At this end, he leads the Goldsmiths Research Team of the NM2 (New Media, New Millennium) project, which is partly funded by the EU, and manages the collaborative project with the Tate, UK, Culture Mining: Creation of a Flexibly Searchable Streaming Media Archive of Contemporary and Modern Art Theory and Practice, funded by the AHRC, UK. In NM2, Marian’s team has created a language for the representation of interactive narrative structures (and, therefore, for ShapeShifted TV programmes), called NSL, an authoring tool that wraps NSL up in a GUI, and an associated reasoning/inference engine.
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