An Associate Professor of Philosophy as well as a member of the Human-Computer
Interaction Institute and Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
at Carnegie Mellon, Scheines has spent almost twenty years researching
the foundations of causation and its connections to statistical independence
relations (see Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines 2000, Causation, Prediction,
and Search, MIT Press). Contact info:
The Director of Carnegie Mellon's Office of Technology for Education,
Smith has a Phd in History and Philosophy of Science from the University
of Pittsburgh and an MS in Physics from Baylor. Before coming to Carnegie
Mellon, Smith was the Dean of Information for Mira Costa Community College
in San Diego, Director of Academic Computing for the Claremont Graduate
Schools, and the Director of Educational Computing at Allegheny College
in Pennsylvania. Contact info:
A University Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon, Glymour has collaborated
with Scheines on causal reasoning, and has also done research in the foundations
of Cognitive Psychology, Machine Learning, and Philosophy of Science.
Glymour is also a member of the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
in Pensacola, Florida. Contact info: