Charles Rich Email and Phone Number

Charles Rich is a Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Interactive Media and Game Development and the Robotics Engineering faculties at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was previously a Distinguished Research Scientist and founding member of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Rich earned his Ph.D. at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he was a founder and director of the Programmer's Apprentice project. He is a Fellow and past Councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, as well as having served as chair of the 1992 International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, cochair of the 1998 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, program cochair of the 2004 and general cochair of the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, and program cochair of the 2011 International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games.Specialties: artificial intelligence, interactive media, game development, human-robot interaction