Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the CSIC. AI and music, qualitative approaches to landmark-based robot navigation.

C.V., list of awards, publications, memberships, projects, and conferences. Interests in neural networks.

University of Waterloo. Constraint programming, compiler optimization, and scheduling.

University of Minnesota. Computer-mediated communication, social data mining, computer-supported cooperative work, recommender system.

University of Colorado, Boulder. Empirical metaphor research, latent semantic analysis, information retrieval, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with Dan Jurafsky.

University of Illinois at Chicago. Interpretation and generation of instructional text, computational models of tutorial dialogue, modeling collaboration in human-human and computer-human dialogues, referential expressions.

Stanford University. Extempo Systems. Intelligent interactive characters, interactive story telling, adaptive intelligent agents.

Tufts University. Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces, virtual environments, eye-gaze tracking.

MIT Media Lab. Gesture and narrative language, animated agents, intonation, facial expression, computer vision.

USC Institute for Creative Technology. Discourse structure. Grounding in discourse. Dialog and virtual reality agents.