Paul Bello

Paul Bello

Research

My research program involves endowing computational cognitive architectures with the representational richness and algorithmic diversity required for them to reason like human beings. In particular, I am interested in the computational foundations of human social reasoning, and how they are made manifest in intuitive theories of psychology and moral judgment.

Publications

N. Cassimatis & P. Bello (2007). Cognitive Modeling as Revolutionary Science. In Proceedings of the AAAI 2007 Workshop on Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence

P. Bello, P. Bignoli & N. Cassimatis (2007). Attention and Association Explain the Emergence of Reasoning About False Beliefs in Young Children. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.

N. Cassimatis, M. Bugajska, S. Dugas, A. Murugesan & P. Bello. (2007). An Architecture for Adaptive Algorithmic Hybrids. In Proceedings of the AAAI 2007 Annual Conference. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

P. Bello, N.L. Cassimatis & K. McDonald (2007). Some Computational Desiderata for Recognizing and Reasoning About the Intentions of Others. In Proceedings of the AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium on Intentions in Intelligent Systems.

H. Wang & P. Bello (2007). Ritualization as Choice of Actions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29(6): pp 634-635.

S. Bringsjord, K. Arkoudas & P. Bello (2006). Toward a General Logicist Framework for Engineering Ethically Regulated Robots. IEEE Intelligent Systems: Special Issue on Machine Ethics 21(4): 38-44.

Y. Yang, S. Bringsjord & P. Bello (2006). The Mental Possible Worlds Mechanism. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 18(2): 157-168.

P. Bello & N.L. Cassimatis (2006). Developmental Accounts of Theory-of-Mind Acquisition: Achieving Clarity via Computational Cognitive Modeling. In Proceedings of the 28^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

H. Wang, C. Coble & P. Bello (2006). Cognitive-Affective Interactions in Human Decision-Making: A Neurocomputational Approach. In Proceedings of the 28^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

P. Bello & N.L. Cassimatis (2006). Understanding other Minds: A Cognitive Modeling Approach. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.

P. Bello (2006). New Problems for AI in Military Simulation: Are Multilevel Heterogeneous Models the Solution? In Proceedings of the 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Cognitive Science Principles Meet AI-Hard Problems. Eds. C. Lebiere & R. Wray.

K. Arkoudas, S. Bringsjord & P. Bello (2005). Toward Ethical Robots via Mechanized Deontic Logic. In Proceedings of the 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Machine Ethics. Ed. M. Anderson.

Y. Yang & P. Bello (2005). Some Empirical Results Concerning Deontic Reasoning: Models, Schema, or Both? In Proceedings of the 27^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

S. Bringsjord, A. Shilliday, J. Taylor, P. Bello, Y. Yang, & K. Arkoudas (forthcoming). Harnessing Intelligent Agent Technology to Superteach Reasoning. To appear in Intelligent Agents and Education.

P. Bello & S. Bringsjord (2003). HILBERT & PATRIC: Hybrid Intelligent Agent Technology for Teaching Context-Independent Reasoning. Educational Technology & Society 6(3): 30-42.

P. Bello & S. Bringsjord (2002). Towards a Formal Architecture for Agent–Driven Instruction for Context Independent Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Computing and Philosophy.

S. Bringsjord, P. Bello, & D. Ferrucci (2001). Creativity, the Turing Test, and the (Better) Lovelace Test. Minds and Machines 11: 3-27.

Background

I received my bachelors of science in Computer and Systems Engineering with a dual major in Philosophy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1999. I stayed on at RPI and completed my M.S. in Computer Science in 2001, and received the Ph.D. in Cognitive Science in 2005 under the supervision of Selmer Bringsjord.

Human Level Intelligence Laboratory @ Rensselaer

Rensselaer AI and Reasoning Laboratory (RAIR)

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