Tim Finin
Professor 

Primary Role:Principal Faculty

Company:Unversity of Maryland, Baltimore County
Department: CSEE dept
Room: 329
Street: 1000 Hilltop Circle
City: Baltimore
State: MD
ZIP: 21250
Country: USA
Phone:+1.410.455.3522
Fax: +1.410.455.3969
URL: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~finin
Blog URL: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/
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Biography:
Tim Finin is a Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at UMBC, the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Finin is a member of the UMBC ebiquity group where he is working on projects involving social media, the semantic web, intelligent agents, and pervasive computing. He has over 30 years of experience in the applications of AI to information systems and intelligent interfaces and is currently working on social media, the semantic web, intelligent agents and mobile computing. He holds degrees from MIT and the University of Illinois and has held positions at Unisys, the University of Pennsylvania, and the MIT AI Laboratory. He has authored over 270 refereed publications and an editor in chief of the Journal of Web Semantics. He helped lead the development of the KQML agent communication language and particiated in the design of the the OWL language for the Semantic Web. He has organized several major conferences, chaired the UMBC Computer Science Department, and served as a AAAI councilor and member of the Computing Research Association board of directors.

Tim Finin has 164 authored publications:
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Tim Finin is associated with 13 projects:  Hide the list...

Active Projects

 Methodology for IT Services on the Cloud, Faculty.
 Vox Blogguli, Principal Faculty.
 Wikitology, Principal Faculty.

Past Projects

 A Personal Agent Application for the Semantic Web, Faculty.
 Agents2Go, Faculty.
 Allia: Alliance-based Service Discovery, Faculty.
 An Agent Based Distributed Computing System using XReggie and Ronin, Faculty.
 Anamika: Distributed Service Discovery and Composition for Pervasive Environments, Faculty.
 Centaurus, Faculty.
 CentaurusComm, Faculty.
 CoCoNet: Content and Context Aware Networking, Faculty.
 Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA), Faculty.
 Context-Aware Surgical Training, Faculty.

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