Hello, all! I'm Dr. J. William Murdock. I work in the T.J. Watson Research Center at IBM. I am a computer scientist; my research area is Artificial Intelligence. Specific topics of interest to me include knowledge-based reasoning, functional models of processes, reflection, explanation, design, planning, learning, cognitive science, and extraction of knowledge from natural language.

Before coming to IBM, I worked in the Intelligent Decision Aids Group of the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence within the Information Technology Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. My position there was a Postdoctoral Research Associateship funded by the National Research Council. The director of the group that I was in at the Naval Research Laboratory is Dr. David W. Aha. I also spent one day per week at the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland where I worked with Dr. Dana S. Nau.

I was a graduate student from fall of 1994 through summer of 2001 in AI (part of an interdisciplinary Cognitive Science program) at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; I received my master's degree in 1996 and my Ph.D. in 2001. My advisor was Dr. Ashok Goel and I was a member of his Design Intelligence group. My Ph.D. work focused on a project called REM which uses functional models for self-redesign in the context of complex, dynamic environments such as manufacturing and web browsing. I obtained my bachelor's degree (in Computer Science, Linguistics and Semiotics, and Computational and Applied Mathematics) in the spring of 1994 from Rice University.