Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Bell Punneliparambil Eapen

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Bell Punneliparambil Eapen Directory Mon, 08/19/2024 - 05:15

Area of Expertise

Dr. Bellraj (Bell) Eapen is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems. With a background in clinical medicine, he earned an MS in eHealth and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from McMaster University, Canada. His extensive industry experience is drawn from significant roles across various prominent healthcare organizations in both public and private sectors. Additionally, Dr. Eapen is a prolific contributor to the open-source community, actively maintaining several software libraries on GitHub.

Office Location

One University Plaza, UHB 4091

Management Information Systems

Phone Number

217-206-6067

bpunn@uis.edu

Assistant Prof.

Area of Specialization

Health Informatics, Generative AI, Multimodal AI

List of publications | Research profile

Miriam Wallace

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Miriam Wallace Directory Tue, 07/04/2023 - 05:15

Area of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Writing

Miriam L. Wallace is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Illinois-Springfield, and Professor of English. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College (BA) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (MA/PhD) in Literature. As a proud liberal arts graduate, she advocates for the value and impact of academic study, art making and performance, public presentations, and study abroadâ¿¿noting their impact on self-confidence, intellectual curiosity, and personal and professional growth.

She has written extensively on late eighteenth-century British writers who used fiction to advocate for political reformâ¿¿most notably in Revolutionary Subjects in the English â¿¿Jacobinâ¿¿ Novel (2009) (which was supported by an NEH College Teacher Fellowship). More recent work explores Romantic-era public speaking as depicted in satirical prints, literature, and popular cultureâ¿¿particularly by those formerly excluded from rhetorical training by virtue of class, sex, gender, race, educational level, or disabilities. She was Principle Investigator for an NEH Humanities Connections Planning Grant to build a new â¿¿concentrationâ¿¿ in Health, Culture and Societies from 2021-2022 with colleagues in Epidemiology, Anthropology, History, and Physiology/Medicine. She continues as co-editor of the â¿¿Transits: Literature, Thought, and Culture 1650-1850â¿¿ series with Bucknell University Press with Dr. Mona Narain. Since January 2023 she has been involved in organizing and speaking about academic freedom and the importance of public universities as equity engines, resisting efforts to diminish or limit humanistic exploration and voices. Dr. Wallace is Co-PI with Dr. Emily Todd of an NEH Spotlight on Humanities grant on the humanities in an A.I. world for 2024-2025.

Office Location

1 University Plaza, MS UHB 3000

Research

Literature, particularly in English; Eighteenth-century studies and Romanticism; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Public Speech, history of; Satire, political and cultural

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Administration

Phone Number

217-206-7444

Publications

Books: Teaching the Eighteenth-Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement (2023 essay collection), with Kate Parker; Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel (2009); Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment: British Novels from 1750-1832 (2009 essay collection); Re-viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809: Essays on His Life and Work (essay collection), with A. A. Markley.

English and Modern Languages

mwall29@uis.edu

Teaching

English, Literature, British literature & culture Enlightenment & Romanticism; Health Humanities, Disability Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Women Writers

Editorial Boards

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850, Bucknell University Press, with Dr. Mona Narain

Dean

Professor

Area of Specialization

Humanities & Liberal Arts; Academic Freedom; educational gag orders; Literature and Politics; Women's and Gender issues; Higher education academic administration; Eighteenth Century and 1790s British literature and culture; Satirical Prints; Romantic-era novel; Virginia Woolf; feminist pedagogies.

Jessica Baumberger

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Jessica Baumberger Directory Fri, 07/02/2021 - 05:15

Area of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Jessica Baumberger is a Web Developer and IT professional with 17 years of experience in designing, architecting, and coding custom websites, CMS sites, and e-commerce solutions. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Communications and Digital/Multimedia Design, as well as a Master's in Information and Communication Technology from the University of Denver. In November 2019, Jessica joined the University of Illinois Springfield as the Director of Web Services. Additionally, she is the owner and president of Resolute Design and Development, a web design and development company based in Illinois.

As the Director of Web Services, Jessica Baumberger is responsible for managing the architecture of the UIS website and ensuring that it performs optimally to help the university achieve its strategic marketing and recruitment goals. Collaborating with the Campus Relations unit, Jessica develops strategies to improve user experience (UX), optimize search engine rankings (SEO), and raise UIS' online profile.

Jessica manages web standards and user-access controls, oversees the training of web authors and editors, and ensures compliance with federal, state, and university web standards for security and accessibility. She also leads the Web Services team and student workers and supports strategic marketing efforts through effective design and content presentation. Additionally, she contributes to monthly data analytics reports and collaborates with representatives from all units, colleges, and divisions at UIS, as well as relevant units on the Urbana and Chicago campuses and U of I System administration.

Jessica stays up to date with emerging technologies and tools to ensure that UIS stays at the forefront of web development. She is a strong advocate of AI and is exploring ways to use this technology to enhance UIS' web presence. She believes that AI has the potential to revolutionize the way universities interact with their audiences online and is excited to continue exploring ways to integrate this technology into UIS' web services.

Office Location

One University Plaza

Office of Web Services

Phone Number

217-206-8384

jbaum02s@uis.edu

Director of Web and Digital Strategy

Richard Funderburg

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Richard Funderburg Directory Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:58

Area of Expertise

Public Administration

Management/Administration

Public Policy

Taxes/Tax Cheating

Work

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Machine ��ý (ML)

Ecology

Government Legislation/Politics

Sustainability

Utility Regulation

Richard Funderburg is an associate professor in the School of Public Management and Policy and a collaborating scholar at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, where he is a member of the Fiscal and Economic Policy working group. He earned his Ph.D. in Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Funderburg also holds a Master of Public Policy and Administration degree from California State University, Sacramento. Professor Funderburg is an expert on state and local economic development policy. He has published over 15 studies of economic development in peer-reviewed urban planning and regional science journals. Professor Funderburg has extensive experience advising state and local governments, including appointments with the California Department of Finance and the California Employment Development Department. Dr. Funderburg is actively engaged in the local community, where he serves as a commissioner on the Village of Chatham Planning Commission. Rick teaches budget and finance, economics and public policy, information for decision making, community planning and policy, community economic development, and public management.

Recent Publications:

(In Press) Funderburg, R., T. Dooley, and T. Bland. â¿¿Community Affluence as a Barrier to Housing Affordability: The Siting of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Projects and Sustained Inequality in Illinoisâ¿¿s Capital Region.â¿¿ In R. Islam, P. Kraeger, and R. Phillips (Eds.) Social (In)Equality and Community Well-Being. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.

(2022) Funderburg, R. and J. Drucker. â¿¿Why Do Local Governments Award Business Tax Incentives?â¿¿ PA Times, March 11, 2022. Available here.

(2021) Funderburg, R., J. Drucker, D. Merriman, and R. Weber. â¿¿Is Tax Competition Strategic? Spatial Distributions of Business Property Tax Abatements in the Chicago Suburbs,â¿¿ Economic Development Quarterly, 35(1), 66â¿¿83. Available here.

(2020) Drucker, J., R. Funderburg, D. Merriman, and R. Weber. â¿¿Do Local Governments Use Business Tax Incentives to Compensate for High Business Property Taxes?â¿¿ Regional Science and Urban Economics, 81, 103498. Available here.

(2019) Funderburg, R. â¿¿Regional Employment and Housing Impacts of Tax Increment Financing Districts,â¿¿ Regional Studies, 53, 874-886. Available here.

(2018) Drucker, J., R. Funderburg, D. Merriman, and R. Weber. The Use of Business Property Tax Incentives in Cook County, Illinois. Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois. Available here (PDF).

(2016) Lejano, R. and R. Funderburg. â¿¿Geographies of Risk, the Regulatory State, and the Ethic of Care,â¿¿ Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106, 1097-1113. Available here.

Google Scholar Profile

ORCID

Richard Funderburg CV (PDF)

Office Location

PAC 484

School of Public Management and Policy

Phone Number

217-206-7220

IGPA - Core Central Activities

rfund2@uis.edu

Associate Prof.

IGPA Collaborative Scholar

Area of Specialization

Peter Boltuc

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Peter Boltuc Directory Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:58

Area of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Ethics

Machine ��ý (ML)

Management/Administration

Online Education

Philosophy

Poland

SPECIALIZATION: philosophy of AI; machine consciousness

COMPETENCE: philosophy of mind, applied ethics (computer, business, healthcare, environmental), political philosophy, social capital; managemenr theory at the age of AI

SPECIAL INTEREST: cognitive science; e-learning; Artificial General Intelligence

The Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Endowed Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences, a three-year endowed professorship, University of Illinois, Springfield 2013 â¿¿ 2016

Outstanding Service to the University of Illinois Senates Conference, Urbana-Champaign, 2017

Erskine Professor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, June-August 2016

Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, June-August 2014

Faculty Excellence Award, University of Illinois Springfield, 2011

Academic Leadership Training, University of Illinois Springfield, Fall 2011

Board Member, African American History Museum of Springfield IL, 2003-2014

Member, Committee on Ethics and Human Values at the Memorial Medical Center, Springfield Illinois 1999-2002

Princeton University, Department of Philosophy Fulbright Graduate Fellow, 1991-92

Oxford University, St. Johnsâ¿¿ College, SCR member, Soros, Faculty Fellow, June-July 1988

MAIN EDITORIAL BOARDS

Computation in Neural Systems, Taylor & Francis, Board of Associate Editors, 2021 â¿¿ present

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, 2020 board memberâ¿¿ ongoing

APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Editor, 2007- 2020

E-Mentor, board member, Warsaw School of Economics, 2004 â¿¿ ongoing

International Journal of Machine Consciousness, World Scientific, co-editor NY, 2009 â¿¿ 2014

Polish Journal of Philosophy, board member, 2007 â¿¿ ongoing

Philosophies; MDPI board member, 2016 â¿¿ ongoing

Humanities, MDPI board member, 2012 â¿¿ ongoing

Information, MDPI board member, 2010 â¿¿ ongoing

Philosophy and Science, Polish Academy of Science, 2009â¿¿ ongoing

Dialogue and Universalism, international co-editor, 2001, consulting editor - ongoing,

Office Location

University Hall

Mathematical Sciences and Philosophy

Phone Number

217-206-7422

Publications

MAIN PUBLICATIONS IN AI THEORY'

â¿¿Alien Versus Natural-Like Artificial General Intelligencesâ¿¿ H. Shneider; P..Boltuc: Artificial General Intelligence: proceedings 16th International Conference, AGI 2023, Stockholm, Sweden, June 16â¿¿19, 2023, Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series 2023 Pages 233â¿¿243 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33469-6_24
â¿¿Industry 5.0: Theoretical Limitations and Ethical Chancesâ¿¿ in. J Wielgorska-Leszczynska; M. Matusewicz: 30 Years in the Social Sciences. New Thoughts and Ideas; SGH Press, Warsaw Poland 2023 p.55-74
"Moral Space for Paraconsistent AGI", in Ben Goertzel, Matthew Ikle, Denis Ponomaryov, Alexey Potapov. Artificial General Intelligence Chapter 16 series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 13539, Springer Science, Switzerland p 83-97; 2022
â¿¿The Fourth Space in the Fourth Revolutionâ¿¿ In: Felix Francisco Ramos Corchado and Alexei V. Samsonovich (Eds.). 2022 Annual International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence: The 13th Annual Meeting of the BICA Society. Procedia Computer Science, Volume 213C, Pages p. 89-95. 2022. ISSN: 1877-0509 Nov. 2022
â¿¿Non-Reductive Physicalism for AGIâ¿¿ Filozofia i Nauka 10 June 2022 p. 33-48 https://filozofiainauka.studiafilozoficzne.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Bo%C5%82tu%C4%87_33.pdf
â¿¿Philosophy and Computing Conference at IS4SI 2021â¿¿ From the Editor Proceedings 2022, 81(1), 149;
â¿¿The Fourth Space as Realityâ¿¿ Proceedings MDPI June 2022, 81(1), 151;
â¿¿Uncanny Robots of Perfectionâ¿¿ (with Thomas P. Connelly), in: (Gudwin R. et al) Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence: BICA*AI 2020, Springer Science, p. 56-68, 2021
â¿¿BICA for AGIâ¿¿ (with M. I. Boltuc) Cognitive Systems Research vol 62 (August 2020), p. 57-67 [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389041719304863?via%3Dihub]
â¿¿Conscious AI at the Edge of Chaosâ¿¿ Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness Volume 07, Issue 01 (March 2020) p. 25-38
â¿¿Consciousness for AGIâ¿¿ Procedia Computer Science (2019) Postproceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, BICA 2019 (Tenth Annual Meeting of the BICA Society), ed. by A.V. Samsonovich and V.V. Klimov. Procedia Computer Science, 2020, pp. 349-356. ISSN 1877-0509
â¿¿Semantics beyond Languageâ¿¿ (with M. I. Boltuc) in: Samsonovich A. V. (ed.) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2019 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 948; Springer Science 2020 p. 36-47
â¿¿Subject is no Objectâ¿¿ in: M. Burgin; Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (eds) Epistemic Basis of Information, Philosophy of Information, World Scientific 2019 p. 3-39
â¿¿AI Consciousnessâ¿¿ in (ed.) A. Chella, TOCAIS 2019 Towards Conscious AI Systems, AAAI CEUR Springer, 2019 [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2287/paper3.pdf] 1-8 (no generalized page numbers)
â¿¿Identity Translationâ¿¿ in L. Harmon (ed.) Identity in Translation, Peter Lang (2019) p. 79-91
â¿¿BICA a Reboursâ¿¿ in: A.V. Samsonovich (ed.) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Springer Aug. 2018 p. 27-43
Strong Semantic Computing, Procedia Computer Science 123 Feb. 2018 p. 98â¿¿103 [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050918300176]
â¿¿Cognitive Agents: Is There a Moral Gap Between Human and Artificial Intelligence?â¿¿ in Tzfestas S. (ed.) Information, Communication and Automation Technology Ethics in the Knowledge Society. NOVA Science Publishers 2018.
â¿¿Church-Turing Lovers.â¿¿ In: Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence; Lin, P., Abney, K., Jenkins, R., Eds.; Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, 2017; p. 214â¿¿228
"The Power of Online Educationâ¿¿ in: (Zacher, L. ed.) Potentials and Power Relations in Digitized Society (Pol.) Poltext, Warsaw Jan. 2018
â¿¿Metacomputableâ¿¿, Entropy, Oct. 2017 [https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/11

Discovery Partners Institute

pbolt1@uis.edu

Involvement

Conference Chair, Philosophy and Computing; Virtual Conference on Zoom, 12-19 September h2021, contributing to the 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) administered from Japan in collaboration with Zoom administered through AGI Laboratory /Uplift/, USA. Organized by: Association on Philosophy and Computing (APC) affiliate of the APA; PHAEDE Philosophy of Engineering and Artifact in the Digital Era); philosophy interest group within BICA; Philosophy and Science PAN (journal of the Polish Academy of Science)

Coordinating committee member; Association for Philosophy and Computing (APC), 2020 - ongoing

Chair Committee on Philosophy and Computers, American Philosophical Association, 2019-20

Lectures

MAIN LECTURES related to AI

â¿¿AI2AGI: Socio-economic, Legal, and Humanistic ramificationsâ¿¿ Simuli: Towards Safe AGI, expert forum: Invited Talk, Oct 14-17, 2023 Eugene OR, Mount Tom House
â¿¿Alien Versus Natural-Like Artificial General Intelligencesâ¿¿ (with Howard Schneider), 2023 AGI congress, June 16-18 Stockhom, Sweden
European Academy of Management; EURAM 2023 Transforming Business for Good: Lab for Ph.D. students, with Daniel Hardegger and two others â¿¿DISCOVERING THE â¿¿4TH SPACEâ¿¿: IDENTIFYING RESEARCHABLE TOPICS ON THE HYBRID SOCIETY AND HYBRID COMMUNITIESâ¿¿ June 13, 2023 Trinity College of Business, Dublin, Ireland
â¿¿Deflationary nonreductive physicalism. May awareness be 'creature consciousness', and may AIs have it?â¿¿ The Science of Consciousness 2023, May 23-37 Taormina, Sicily
â¿¿Beyond Digital Transformation 4.0. AI, New Applications and Opportunities" Inaugural Speech, Abu Dhabi Technology Week UAE University, Computer Technology, Business and Economics Departments Feb. 01, 2023
â¿¿Beyond Industry 4.0, but not very far.â¿¿ Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA-2022) #165 Guadalajara, Mexico September 22-25 (plenary panel)

Teaching

Teaching Advanced Classes on AI:

Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ: offering MA/Ph.D seminar in AI Consciousness July-August 2022l; June-July 2016

UIS: PHI/CSC470- Philosophy of AI (Fall 2018-2022)

UIS: PHI460 Philosophy of Digital Transformation Summer 2023

SGH: AI: Values and Strategies Summer 2022

SGH: Digital Transformation, Winter 2021

UIS: Ethics for IT Professionals, 2018

Poznan University: Visiting senior professorâ¿¿s Ph.D. Seminar: Consciousness Studies, 2014

UIUC School of Engineering, Computer Ethics (guest teaching in Keith Millerâ¿¿s class), Spring 2013

Professor

DPI Affiliate

Area of Specialization

Team member::SIMULI.AI. An eight member AGI research team, lead by Rachel St. Clair; Ben Goertzel; Binoy Sayed; members include L. Andrew Coward and Peter Sutor Jul.2023 - ongoing https://www.simuli.ai/team/  

Primary Investigator, US DoD, Army Research Lab, Philosophy of Visual Processing administered through UIS Sept. 2017- Sept.2019