Bob Daley

Professor of Computer Science

5401 SENSQ
412-624-8415

daley@cs.pitt.edu
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Dr. Daley received a BS degree (Mathematics, 1966) from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and a PhD degree (Mathematics, 1971) from Carnegie-Mellon University.

He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago from 1971 to 1975, and has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pittsburgh since 1975. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Science since 1985. He is a member of ACM, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, and the Association for Symbolic Logic.

His current research interests include: theoretical foundations of computer science, computational complexity, learning algorithms, and philosophical aspects of computer science. The major thrust of his current research efforts is directed towards establishing mathematical tools which can be used to analyze various learning algorithms (viz., heuristics) that have been and are being developed by researchers in artificial intelligence, and also towards the determination of the fundamental relationships between the various parameters of the learning paradigm. Of particular interest currently are: the development of cooperative strategies for multi-agent learning systems; use of Genetic Algorithms in reinforcement learning problems.