My dear friend Javier unfortunately and unexpectedly died on August 24th, 2001. Below you will find the last web page he created. I have kept it as it was. I have included his picture and his last CV here . You can find a few personal reflections on Javier here. I am updating his list of publications right above his picture. Leo Bertossi




Javier Pinto's Home Page

Email:
jpinto@ing.puc.cl
Phone:
+(56-2) 686 4971.
Fax:
+(56-2) 686 4444.
Address:
Dept. de Ciencia de la Computación
Escuela de Ingeniería
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Vicuña Mackenna 4860

Some Personal Info

I am currently employed as a full time Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science, Catholic University of Chile. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1994, and my M.Sc. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1986. I obtained my undergraduate degree in Engineering from the Catholic University of Chile in 1982.

Research Interests

My main area of research is in the field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence. My particular interest is the development of logical languages for Reasoning About Actions and Change. I am also interested in the application of these Knowledge Representation Languages to the modelling of agent behavior (e.g., robotic agents), the modelling of active and temporal databases, etc.

Lately, I have become interested in the use of AI techniques in the realm of the World Wide Web. I plan to become involved in research on the Semantic Web. In particular, I will be exploring the modelling and specification web servers as agents whose behavior is modeled as a theory of action, which is encoded in some ontology. More to come (I hope).

Disclaimer

I will make an effort to keep this page up to date. However, based on past history, I don't think this will really happen. At the very least, the publication list is up to date (January 3rd, 2001). I'll try to put up a picture of myself, so that you know what i (used to) look like. This will be done sometime soon (maybe).

Publications