Hugo Liupostdo�oral scholar

media laboratory � comparative media studiesmassachusetts institute of technology

hugo@media.mit.edu

Key Words

Education

computational aesthetics, semiotics, common sense reasoning, cognitive linguistics, computational food, postmodern culture & philosophy

Ph.D. in Media Arts & SciencesSchool of Architecture & Planning, MIT, 2006 GPA 5.0 of 5.0“Computing Point-of-View: Modeling and Simulating Judgments of Taste” Advisor: Pattie Maes; Readers: William J. Mitchell & Warren SackAOL Fellow, 2005-06; British Telecom Fellow, 2004-05

M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer ScienceSchool of Computer Science, MIT, 2002 GPA 5.0 of 5.0“Semantic Understanding and Common Sense Reasoning in an Adaptive Photo Agent” Advisor: Henry Lieberman

S.B. in Computer ScienceSchool of Computer Science, MIT, 2001 GPA 4.9 of 5.0William T. Haebler Fellow, 2001; Sigma Xi; Tau Beta Pi; Eta Kappa Nu

DiplomaArcadia High School, Arcadia, CA, 1997 GPA 4.0 of 4.0Valedictorian, class of 700

Courses Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science & Technology, 24.262, Fall 2006Lecturer (with Irving Singer)Linguistics & Philosophy Catalogue, Comparative Media Studies Catalogue, MIT

Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications, MAS.969, Fall 2005Lecturer (with Henry Lieberman)Media Arts and Sciences Catalogue, MIT, enrollment of 15

Media Fabrics, MAS.845, Spring 2006 (Glorianna Davenport)A�ective Computing, MAS.630, Spring 2004, Spring 2005 (Rosalind Picard)Context-Aware Computing, MAS.741, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005 (Ted Selker)Guest Lecturer

Common Sense Reasoning, MAS.965, Fall 2003 (Henry Lieberman)Teaching Assistant

Introduction to Programming, Jiaotong University Fuzhong, Summer 1998Instructor (with Bryant McLaughlin)Java language and arti�cial intelligence primer, enrollment of 20

ResearchAppointments

Media Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MAPostdoctoral Associate, 2006-

Comparative Media Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MAPostdoctoral Scholar, 2006-

IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, Hawthorne, NYResearcher, 2003with the Commonsense Reasoning Group, on ambient context

Media Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MAResearch Assistant, Ambient Intelligence Group, 2004-A�liate, Counter Intelligence Group, 2002-Research Assistant, So�ware Agents Group, 2000-2004

Consultancy Name withheld pending beta (www.foobar.com), Cambridge, MAAdvisor, 2006-Online rich media startup

Haystack Media (www.haystack.com), New York, NYAdvisor, 2006-“Music powered by people”

McAfee SiteAdvisor (www.siteadvisor.com), Boston, MATechnology and Design Advisor, 2005-Cutting edge web security and reputation portal

Society of Mind Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MAConsultant, 2004ConceptNet 2.0

BCL Technologies, Santa Clara, CAConsultant, 2000-2002Computational linguistics research and development - Lead on MeetingRunner™ (US patent pending 60/335,200) and Spoken-Language User Interface Toolkit (US Dept of Commerce ATP Grant 70NANB9H3025)

IBM Secure Way, Gaithersburg, MDConsultant, 1999Developer for TrustAuthority v3.1, a public-key cryptography product

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EditorialA�ivities

Guest Editor (with Pattie Maes), Special Issue on “Semantics of People and Culture” International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Volume 3, 2007, Hershey PA: Idea Publishing Group.

Program Committee Member, 8th Congress of RIAO: Recherche d’Information Assistée par Ordinateur, Pittsburg, PA, 2007

Chair (with Rada Mihalcea), AAAI Workshop on “Computational Aesthetics: AI Approaches to Beauty & Happiness”, Boston, MA, 2006

Faculty Advisor, Convergence Culture Consortium (www.convergenceculture.net), MIT, 2006-

Member, Task Force on Esthetics, Entertainment and Education, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2006-

Program Committee Member, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2006), Sydney, Australia, 2006

Program Committee Member, 6th Int’l Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, 2006

Program Committee Member, AI in Music and Art Special Track, 19th Int’l FLAIRS Conference, Melbourne Beach, FL, 2006

Reviewer, IEEE Internet Computing, 2006

Panelist, "Re�ections on the past, visions of the future," A Panel on Recommender Systems, ACM Beyond Personalization Workshop, San Diego, CA, 2005

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2005

Reviewer, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, 2005

Program Committee Member, AAAI Spring Symposium on "Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors", Stanford, CA, 2005

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CompetitiveHonors

1st Place Team, “Organic Marketing” Competition, MIT, January 2006

AOL Fellowship 2005-06

British Telecom Fellowship 2004-05

1st Place, Snow�ake-a-thon Design Competition (John Maeda, host), MIT, January 2005

Best Paper, 7th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Miami, FL, 2003

Best AI Paper, Int’l Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia, Malaga, Spain, 2002

Honors Presentation, MIT Masters �esis, EECS Masterworks Colloquium, 2002

Media &Press

Automated programming: the next wave of developer power tools, IEEE So�ware Magazine, May/June 2006

Noodling around, Food Service Director Magazine, 15 January 2006

Synesthetic cookbook, Year in Ideas Issue, New York Times Magazine, 11 December 2005

Cutting edge: natural language programming, Oracle Magazine, November 2005

Speaking the Same Language, Technology Review Magazine, July 2005

MIT's Metaphor for So�ware Engineering, Optimize Magazine, May 2005

Natural Programming, Technology Insider Magazine, April 2005

English to Code Converter, Slashdot, 25 March 2005

Tool turns English into Code Outline, Technology Research News, 14 March 2005

Product Pointer, Technology Review, February 2005

Digital Serendipity, MIT Technology Insider Magazine, November 2004

InvitedSpeaking

Engagements

TBDGreenbrier Symposium for Professional Food Writers, White Sulphur Springs, WV, 20-24 May 2007.

�e synesthetic cookbookTaste3: Wine, Food, Art; Robert Mondavi 40th Anniversary Celebration, Napa, CA, 14 July 2006.

Viewpoint representations for arti�cial intelligence12th Portugese Conference on Arti�cial Intelligence, Covilhã, Portugal, 7 December 2005.

Computing point-of-view and viewpoint-driven searchAmerica On-Line, Dulles, Washington DC, 26 October 2005.

English: the lightest weight programming language of them allLightweight Languages 2004, 4 December 2004, Webcast archive available.

Reasoning about emotionsTechLink Research Symposium, MIT Sloan School of Business, Cambridge, MA. 29 January 2004.

Uncommon ways to model published contentTime-Life UnCommon Sense Publishers Workshop, New York City, 5 December 2003.

�e web of �nding food: browse, search, modify & eatFinding Food, Cambridge, MA, 16 October 2002.

Intelligent photo retrieval using commonsense semanticsXerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA, 8 April 2002.

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RefereedConference

Papers

Natural language processing for natural language programmingR Mihalcea, H Liu, H Lieberman, 2006, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico.

Synesthetic Recipes: foraging for food with the family, in taste-spaceH Liu, M Hockenberry & T Selker, 2005, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, CA.

Langutils: a natural language toolkit for common lispI Eslick & H Liu, 2005, Proceedings of the 42nd Int’l Lisp Conference, Stanford, CA.

�e Aesthetiscope: visualizing aesthetic readings of text in color spaceH Liu & P Maes, 2005, Proceedings of the 18th Int’l Florida Arti�cial Intelligence Research Society Conference, AI in Music & Art Special Track, 74-79, Menlo Park, Calif.: AAAI Press.

Programmatic semantics for natural language interfacesH Liu & H Lieberman, 2005, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1597-1600, ACM Press.

Metafor: visualizing stories as codeH Liu & H Lieberman, 2005, Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 305-307, ACM Press.

What Would �ey �ink? a computational model of attitudesH Liu & P Maes, 2004, Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 38-45, ACM Press.

Visualizing the a�ective structure of a text documentH Liu, T Selker, H Lieberman, 2003, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 740-741, ACM Press.

A model of textual a�ect sensing using real-world knowledgeH Liu, H Lieberman & T Selker, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2003, 125-132, ACM Press. -best paper-

MAKEBELIEVE: using commonsense to generate storiesH Liu & P Singh, 2002, Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on Arti�cial Intelligence, 957-958, AAAI Press, 2002.

hugo liu media laboratory � comparative media studiesmassachusetts institute of technology � hugo@media.mit.edu

RefereedWorkshop &Symposium

Papers

Saurus: an emotionally-weighted thesaurusJ Gouldstone, H Liu, H Lieberman & H Ishii, 2006, Proceedings of the AAAI-06 Workshop on Computational Aesthetics, 107-110, AAAI Press.

A corpus-based approach to �nding happinessR Mihalcea & H Liu, 2006, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs, AAAI Press.

InterestMap: harvesting social network pro�les for recommendationsH Liu & P Maes, 2005, Proceedings of Beyond Personalization 2005: A Workshop on the Next Stage of Recommender Systems Research, 54-59, ACM Press.

Articulation, the letter, and the spirit in the aesthetics of narrativeH Liu, 2004, Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism, and Context, ACM Press.

Toward a programmatic semantics of natural languageH Liu & H Lieberman, 2004, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 281-282, IEEE Computer Society Press.

Robust photo retrieval using world semanticsH Liu & H Lieberman, Proceedings of the LREC 2002 Workshop on Creating and Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering: State-of-the-art and Future Research, 15-20, LREC Press.

hugo liu media laboratory � comparative media studiesmassachusetts institute of technology � hugo@media.mit.edu

Computing Point-of-View: Modeling & Simulating Judgments of TasteH Liu, 2006, Ph.D. Dissertation, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, School of Architecture & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, May 2006.

Semantic Understanding and Commonsense Reasoning in an Adaptive Photo AgentH Liu, 2002, Master's �esis, School of EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, May 2002.

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