Project Director: Richard Scheines


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:


+ email: scheines@cmu.edu
+ Scheines Home Page


Joel Smith


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:


+ email: joelms@andrew.cmu.edu


Clark Glymour


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:


+ email: cg09@andrew.cmu.edu