AI Toolkit (aitk)

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Neil R. Grabois Professor in Natural Sciences and Engineering
Computer Science Department
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave.
Swarthmore, PA 19081
610-328-8565
meeden@cs.swarthmore.edu

I am a Full Professor in the Computer Science Department at Swarthmore College. I also participate in the interdisciplinary program Cognitive Science. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science with a minor in Cognitive Science from Indiana University. I received my B.A. in Mathematics from Grinnell College.


Fall 2024

On sabbatical

Artificial Intelligence Toolkit (aitk)

Developed in collaboration with Doug Blank and James Marshall and first released in 2021, this toolkit contains both an open source set of Python tools and a set of computational essays for exploring and understanding Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, and Robotics. The code and essays are designed to work easily in any web browser and allow users to gain valuable hands-on experience with these important topics. The essays were significantly expanded in Summer 2024 with the help of three Swarthmore College undergraduates Levin Ho, Morgan McErlean, and Alex You. The toolkit is available at github.com/ArtificialIntelligenceToolkit/aitk.

Research

My current research is in the field of developmental robotics where the goal is to create intelligent robots by allowing them to go through a developmental process, rather than being directly programmed to solve a particular task. By endowing a robot with an appropriate control architecture and adaptive mechanisms, it can learn through interactions with the world, developing its own knowledge about itself and its environment.

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