Education

Honors

Professional Experience

  • Visiting Assistant Professor (later renamed Lecturer) [July 2001 - present] Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University
    Research: Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System
    Teaching: Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures and Algorithms, etc.
  • Director of Research [January 2000 - April 2001] Webmind Inc. (former Intelligenesis Corporation)
    Projects: various issues in artificial intelligence and cognitive science
  • Director of Artificial Intelligence [January 1999 - January 2000] Intelligenesis Corporation
    Projects: design and development of an integrated intelligent system
  • Senior Software Engineer [April 1998 - January 1999] Intelligenesis Corporation
    Projects: an inference engine in an integrated intelligent system
  • Senior Technical Staff [January 1998 - April 1998] ExpLore Reasoning Systems, Inc
    Projects: expert systems
  • Knowledge Engineer [November 1996 - December 1997] Brightware, Inc.
    Projects: expert systems
  • Member of Technical Staff [February 1996 - November 1996] Bhasha, Inc.
    Projects: constraint logic programming, natural language processing
  • Research Associate [August 1995 - January 1996] Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, Indiana University
    Projects: experiment design and data processing
  • Researcher [May 1991 - December 1995] Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University
    Research: Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System
  • Lecturer [September 1986 - April 1991] Computer Science and Technology Department, Peking University
    Research: Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System
    Teaching: Artificial Intelligence, Data Structure, etc.

Professional Memberships

Professional Services

Publications (by Pei Wang unless specified otherwise)

Books:

  1. Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms
    (edited by Ben Goertzel and Pei Wang)
    IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN: 9781586037581
  2. Rigid Flexibility: The Logic of Intelligence
    Springer, Dordrecht, 2006, ISBN: 1402050445

Journal Articles:

  1. Three fundamental misconceptions of artificial intelligence
    Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, in press
  2. A logic of categorization
    (by Pei Wang and Douglas Hofstadter)
    Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol.18, No.2, Pages 193-213, 2006
  3. Experience-grounded semantics: a theory for intelligent systems
    Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 6, No. 4, Pages 282-302, 2005
  4. Problem solving with insufficient resources
    International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, Vol.12, No.5, Pages 673-700, 2004
  5. The limitation of Bayesianism
    Artificial Intelligence, Vol.158, No.1, Pages 97-106, 2004
  6. Heuristics and normative models of judgment under uncertainty
    International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Vol.14, No.4, Pages 221-235, 1996
  7. The interpretation of fuzziness
    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol.26, No.2, Pages 321-326, 1996
  8. Reference classes and multiple inheritances
    International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, Vol.3, No.1, Pages 79-91, 1995
  9. From inheritance relation to nonaxiomatic logic
    International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Vol.11, No.4, Pages 281-319, 1994

Refereed Conference/Symposium/Workshop Papers:

  1. Artificial General Intelligence and Classical Neural Network
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Pages 130-135, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2006 (ISBN: 1424401348)
  2. Artificial intelligence: what it is, and what it should be
    Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on AAAI Spring Symposium on Cognitive Science Principles Meet AI-Hard Problems, pages 97-102, Stanford, California, March 2006
  3. Toward a unified artificial intelligence
    Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Achieving Human-Level Intelligence through Integrated Research and Systems, Pages 83-90, Washington DC, October 2004
  4. Reasoning in practical situations
    Proceedings of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 8th International Conference, Wellington, September 2004 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3215, Pages 285-292, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2004, ISBN: 3540232052)
  5. The logic of categorization
    Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference, Pages 181-185, Pensacola, Florida, May 2002 (AAAI Press)
  6. Wason's cards: what is wrong?
    Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, Pages 371-375, Beijing, August 2001 (Press of USTC)
  7. Abduction in non-axiomatic logic
    Working Notes of the IJCAI workshop on Abductive Reasoning, Pages 56-63, Seattle, Washington, August 2001
  8. Confidence as higher-order uncertainty
    Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications, Pages 352-361, Ithaca, New York, June 2001 (Shaker Publishing)
  9. Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System (version 4.1) [Intelligent Systems Demos]
    Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pages 1135-1136, Austin, Texas, July 2000 (AAAI Press / The MIT Press)
  10. The logic of learning
    Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on New Research Problems for Machine Learning, Pages 37-40, Austin, Texas, July 2000
  11. Grounding the meaning of symbols on the system's experience
    Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on the Grounding of Word Meaning: Data and Models, Pages 23-24, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998
  12. Why recommendation is special?
    Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on Recommender System, Pages 111-113, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998
  13. Return to term logic
    Working Notes of the IJCAI Workshop on Abduction and Induction in AI, Nagoya, August 1997
  14. Problem-solving under insufficient resources
    Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation, Pages 148-155, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 1996
  15. A unified treatment of uncertainties
    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference for Young Computer Scientists, Pages 462-467, Beijing, July 1995
  16. A defect in Dempster-Shafer theory
    Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Pages 560-566, Seattle, Washington, July 1994 (Morgan Kaufmann)
  17. Belief revision in probability theory
    Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Pages 519-526, Washington D.C., July 1993 (Morgan Kaufmann)
  18. A discover-oriented logic model
    (by Wang Pei and Hsu Cho-Chun)
    Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computers and Applications, Pages 598-604, Beijing, July 1987 (IEEE Computer Society Press)

Book Chapters:

  1. Aspects of artificial general intelligence
    (by Pei Wang and Ben Goertzel)
    In Advance of Artificial General Intelligence, B. Goertzel and P. Wang (editors), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN: 9781586037581
  2. From NARS to a thinking machine
    In Advance of Artificial General Intelligence, B. Goertzel and P. Wang (editors), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN: 9781586037581
  3. The logic of intelligence
    In Artificial General Intelligence, B. Goertzel and C. Pennachin (editors), To be published by Springer, New York, ISBN: 354023733X
  4. Recommendation based on personal preference
    In Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications, Y. Zhang, A. Kandel, T. Lin, and Y. Yao (editors), Pages 101-115, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 2004, ISBN: 9812388273
  5. Unified inference in extended syllogism
    In Abduction and Induction, P. Flach and A. Kakas (editors), Pages 117-129, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000, ISBN: 0792362500
  6. A new approach for induction: from a non-axiomatic logical point of view
    In Philosophy, Logic, and Artificial Intelligence, Ju S., Liang Q., and Liang B. (editors), Pages 53-85, Zhongshan University Press, Guangzhou, 1999, ISBN: 7306015419

Translations:

  1. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
    Hofstadter, D., (New York: Basic Books, 1979),
    Chinese Edition, with Guo W., Liu H., Yan Y., et al, Commercial Press, Beijing, 1997, ISBN: 7100013232