Biography
Stephen Slade
"Two central issues in psychology and artificial intelligence are goals and interpersonal relationships. Reasoning about goals is a fundamental aspect of human behavior. Intelligent agents are not solitary actors, but must make decisions with respect to the goals and plans of others. Slade has built a model that uses the framework of Schank and Abelson (1977) to predict the voting behavior of members of Congress. To do this he had to deal with much that was left out of that initial work and has thus built a stronger model of planful behavior. Slade's work constitutes a fascinating new model of decision making done within a strong theoretical framework based on an analysis of human memory."
—Roger Schank
Northwestern University"...well-researched and thorough, as well as broadly appealing. I would expect it to be of interest to cognitive scientists working on models of decision making and problem solving, and to artificial intelligence researchers."
—Thomas Hinrichs
ILS, Northwestern University
