Timothy Normand Miller

Personal Info

Email: millerti AT cse DOT ohio-state DOT edu

Friends & Interesting Links

• The Open Hardware Foundation
• Aaron Oneal / Spicy Pixel
• James Dinan
• Ben Schroeder
• Bruce Adcock
• Darla Shockley
• Chem-Hydro Science and Consumer Products, LLC (Ron Miller)
• The Modern Soy Epidemic

Background

• B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of South Florida, 1996
• Worked for Tech Source since 1996: Graphics device drivers, applications, web programming, FPGA/ASIC (chip) design
• Founder/leader of the Open Graphics Project [Wikipedia article|OGP wiki]
• President of Traversal Technology, LLC

Academics

• Ph.D. student in Computer Science at OSU since Autumn 2005
• Major: Artificial Intelligence (Adviser: Dr. John Josephson)
• Minor: Human-Computer Interaction (Adviser: Dr. Phillip Smith)
• Minor: Linguistics (Adviser: Dr. Chris Brew)

Interests

• Machine Cognition
• Genetic Algorithms
• Knowledge-based Reasoning
• Cognitive Science
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Linguistics

Research

• I work at LAIR as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Josephson and Dr. Chandrasekaran.
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• Projects:
• Genetic Algorithms using multi-criterial pareto-surface dominance filtering. Our application is military sensor deployment planning, where we are trying to find optimal placements. There are multiple fitness criteria that apply to each plan, and rather than trying to summarize them into a single scalar, we use them all independently. The "angel of death" for GA population members is simple dominance over all performance criteria.
• Abductive inference applied to object tracking. Cameras are watching some high security area, and via background subtraction, we are being given movement indications as track updates. Our goal is to infer real entities and some aspects of their intent from this input.

Publications

• Timothy N. Miller, John R. Josephson, Optimizing Sensor Deployment with Genetic Algorithms, (Poster) 2007
• Abraham Kandel, Yan-Qing Zhang, Timothy Miller, Knowledge representation by conjunctive normal forms and disjunctive normal forms based on n-variable-m-dimensional fundamental clauses and phrases, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 76 (1995) 73-89.
• Abraham Kandel, Yan-Qing Zhang, Timothy Miller, Fuzzy Neural Decision System for Fuzzy Moves, Proceedings of The Third World Congress on Expert Systems Volume 2 (1996) 718-725.
• Timothy Miller, Motorola 68000 Microprocessor Lab, Lab Experiment Guide, (privately published, used by USF Computer Science Department) 1995, 1996.
• Timothy Miller, Michael Tobias, Multiple Overlay Extension, Tech-Source white-paper, given to those who want to support MOX (1997/1998)
• Timothy Miller, Selwyn Henriques, Clear Windows, Air Traffic Technology International 2001 (2000) 114-115