Matthew Klenk Qualitative Reasoning Group Department of Computer Science Northwestern University m-klenk at northwestern.edu

Education

B.A.  Computer Science, Emory University (May 1999)

Interests

• Use analogy to simulate aspects of human’s unique ability for common sense reasoning

Projects

• Companion Cognitive Systems

Papers

Matthew Klenk, Ken Forbus, Emmett Tomai, Hyeonkyeong Kim, and Brian Kyckelhahn. Solving Everyday Physical Reasoning Problems by Analogy using Sketches. Submitted to the 19th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. May 18-20, 2005. [pdf]

Kenneth D. Forbus, Kate Lockwood, Matthew Klenk, Emmett Tomai, Andrew Lovett and Jeffrey Usher. Open-domain sketch understanding: The nuSketch approach. Submitted to Computers & Graphics Special Issue on Pen-Based Computing. 2005. [pdf]

Forbus, K., Lockwood, K., Klenk, M., Tomai, E., and Usher, J.  2004. Open-domain sketch understanding: The nuSketch approach.  To appear in AAAI Fall Symposium on Making Pen-based Interaction Intelligent and Natural, October, Washington, DC.

Personal Blog

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=mklenk is where I rant about everything from technology to sports (chi-town bias) to music to books to movies to politics (leftist bias) stop by and support online communities.