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Inspiration

Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy -- think about such things. (Paul of Tarsus, c. 61)

There is no philosophy that is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician. (Daniel Bernoulli, 1763)

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. (Gottlob Frege)

... denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du mußt dein Leben ändern. (R. M. Rilke, 1908)

... we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us (Paul of Tarsus, c. 61)

Una alla volta, per carità! (C. Sterbini)

Soll dir das Gefängnis nicht schädlich sein, mußt du etwas tun, dich zu zerstreun! (C. Haffner and R. Genèe)

Altre cure più gravi di queste, altra brama quaggiù mi guidò! (L. da Ponte)

Jon Doyle

Contact information

• Office: 2298 Engineering Building II
• Phone: (919) 513-0423
• Fax: (919) 515-7896
• Email: Jon_Doyle@ncsu.edu
• Web: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/doyle
• Postal Address:
  Department of Computer Science
  Campus Box 8206
  North Carolina State University
  Raleigh, NC 27695-8206
• Parcel Delivery Address:
  Department of Computer Science
  890 Oval Drive, Room 3320
  North Carolina State University
  Raleigh, NC 27606

Office Hours

• Fall 2009: Wed. 10-11AM, Thurs. 1:30-2:30PM

Teaching

• Fall 2009:
  • CSC 495K/591K, Engineering Knowledge-Based Services
• Past courses

Research

• Publications Archive
• Extending Mechanics to Minds:
  The Mechanical Foundations of Psychology and Economics
• Graduate Student FAQ
  • See also How to Succeed in Graduate School by Marie desJardins
  • See also Does a book exist if nobody reads it? by Lance Fortnow
  • Artificial Computers: You've seen the movie, now read the book!
• Students:
  • Andrew Wicker
  • Brian Dellinger
  • Past students

Interests

My primary research interests center on developing a mathematical understanding of thinking and the mind. This effort involves seeking out or developing mathematical concepts and theorems that fit the subject. My work draws on mathematical theories of logic, computation, economics, and mechanics, as well as more general branches of mathematics. In turn, this work has made novel contributions to these existing subjects, notably nonmonotonic logics, preference logics, and hybrid mechanics. I am especially interested in

• Developing theories of rational reflective reasoning, deliberation, adaptation, motivation, habit, and intelligence;
• Characterizing formally different kinds of interesting minds, especially minds that share some of the limitations and qualities of human minds, such as limited degrees of rationality; and
• Developing methods for automating the construction of minds from such characterizations using computers or other mechanisms.

Activities

• Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
• Director of Principles of Knowledge Representation and Research Inc.
• Associate editor of Computational Intelligence
• Extraordinary member, Universität Jena Frege Centre for Structural Sciences,
• Associate faculty, NCSU Bioinformatics Research Center
• Associate faculty, NCSU Information Security Program
• Associate faculty, E-Commerce @ NC State
• Member AAAI, AMS, SIAM, ACM

Personal information

• Academic biography
• Mathematical genealogy (My MGP entry)
• Artificial Intelligence genealogy (My AIGP entry)
• Really old email
• My brick in the new NCSU College of Engineering quad
• My interview (76MB) of July 16, 2006 in the MIT Oral History collection on early artificial intelligence research.